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>>3155
Nice thread! I don't know anything about gear but I play piano and guitar. I do it for fun, but I'd like to find a way to get dollars from music. Maybe I'll start busking. I like playing blues on piano, and folk on guitar.

Here's a little tune I like to play on guitar. It uses dadgad tuning and is called "Midwinter". Idk who wrote it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_QsQmqLs9g

Here's the kind of thing I like to play on piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E02TdInfxpg

Do you have any recordings of your playing OP?

>>3155
nice thread, i play guitar and bass and i'm a huge gear nerd, i play for fun but i am looking forward toplaying gigs

>>3155

I play a little guitar. Some bar chords are still hard for me and a few strings are always muted.

Also am I just a noob if all I can do is chords and not finger picking and tabs?

>>3155

Also how does one get better at playing by ear? Is it just a myth?

I’ve been messing around with piano for a month now and I know a few keys that go good together, but don’t know any theory or when I look into it seems too complicated and too much work to get into.

Is it possible to be a good musician by ear only? I’m more interested in playing than doing the basics because I’m too old to start all that shit now and I just want to make some good sounding music

>>12574
unfortunately yes

>>12575
m8 work on basic finger exercises and simpler songs. You gotta start somewhere.

>>3155
Play guitar, have done vocals in metal n punk projects, and have been trying to produce some industrial techno n digital hardcore as of late

>>12626

I want to learn to sing good, are there any good guides that arent idealist bullshit and based on some science? I dont want to do dumb lip trills that dont teach you shit.

>>12627
i have the same question

>>12627
>I dont want to do dumb lip trills that dont teach you shit.
That's like a boxer who doesn't want to jump rope or do bagwork.
Singing's a physical activity. Your body is your instrument. Lip trills will improve your singing. No excuses, just get on with it anon.
https://youtu.be/PQUo7eimhWA

>>12644

But i already can feel my diaphgram already, i want to learn how to control and direct it to make my singing more powerful and smooth.

Also every time I browse youtube they say some idealost crap like 'use your head voice
'. Isnt all voice from the head wtf.

>>12652
>Isnt all voice from the head wtf.
Yes, but it's resonance they're talking about. Bass singing you feel more in the chest.
https://youtu.be/NnX9DlAQbnc

>>12655

I want to sing like the oldschool 50’s singers that sounded like guys with powerful voices like sinatra and all. I guess I’m mainly looking to understand the main concepts and get some tips that could instantly help my singing. Like in martial arts relaxation and whole body movements is a big concept. Just wondering what the main ones for singing are. I like practicing by diving headfirst and then getting the refining the basics down later

https://youtu.be/VvjWl7lvrnk

>>12721

Woops wrong link, like this dude: https://youtu.be/VTSgGCgpeN0

>>12627
i also want to learn how to sing good, but my main problem is singing out of tune and i need help on that

>>983

>Also how does one get better at playing by ear? Is it just a myth?
>I’ve been messing around with piano for a month now and I know a few keys that go good together, but don’t know any theory or when I look into it seems too complicated and too much work to get into.
>Is it possible to be a good musician by ear only? I’m more interested in playing than doing the basics
Not really, you need some basics.
It might be easier to learn guitar than piano without much theory. There are many "tab" (guitar tablature) books which basically diagrams of what strings you play with your fingers at certain positions on the fretboard for songs, instead of being musical notation as such.
But it's useful to know things like the names of the chords (tonal clusters which give the feel of the music) that are being played at the different parts of the music, which you'll get from a book. then you can play it on an instrument when you know how to make the same chord with you fingers . - it's going to be a group of keys on the piano, or certain strings played with the strings held down on certain positions on the fretboard. So you can basically work some stuff out like that without having to have the supernatural pitch ability which you'll need if you try to do it all by ear.

>>982
>Also am I just a noob if all I can do is chords and not finger picking and tabs?
Nah you can play rhythm guitar in a band, or busk on your own if you sing as well. Any thing's better than just passively consuming shit and not doing anything yourself.
>>994
Your username… I thought saw you buried years ago.
>i also want to learn how to sing good, but my main problem is singing out of tune and i need help on that
Anyway here's an exercise a singing teacher of mine gave me when I couldn't sing in tune.
try singing a note you hear that's being played on an instrument. Is your voice higher, or lower? If you can't tell, just go in one direction until it gets closer or further away from the note you hear.
It might help to image your voice is a column of air holding a ping pong ball up. Try to raise or lower the pitch of your voice to raise or lower the ping pong ball.

>>982
>Also am I just a noob if all I can do is chords and not finger picking and tabs?
Have a listen to vid related, anon. Sounds good, doesn't it! But all she's doing is strumming chords.