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a.p. dent posted:hey piano thread. i'm thinking about buying a digital piano now that i have space. i don't want anything fancy but can spend a bit of money. I have the P-125 and it's fine. It sounds decent on its own and the built-in USB audio interface makes upgrading the sound with a VST super convenient. The Roland FP-30X has the same feature and maybe a slightly nicer action, but unlike the Yamaha it doesn't have a dedicated ASIO driver (that's only an issue for Windows though). According to discussions I've seen elsewhere, it looks like the new P-125a might not have that feature, so buyer beware.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:I don't know where you are - on the balance of probabilities I assume US - but in the UK there's a popular directory that a lot of teachers sign up for. Would be surprised if there wasn't one in the US, or maybe ones for individual states. What is the UK popular directory?
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Boody posted:What is the UK popular directory? https://musicteachers.co.uk/
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i got a piano. it's the casio CDP-S150, not as nice as the yamaha but the local shop had it and i wanted to buy from him. only cost $380 which seemed pretty good. starting in on an adult method book that's easy so far
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I learned to play back in like 4th-7th grades, and have sort of dabbled ever since (more while I was getting my undergraduate degree in music education, less since). I recently picked up an electronic piano so I can get back into it again, and I've noticed that my left hand and forearm get tired/sore fairly quickly, especially if I'm playing something like Maple Leaf Rag with lots of octave reaches in the left hand. What can I do to combat this fatigue?
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hooah posted:I learned to play back in like 4th-7th grades, and have sort of dabbled ever since (more while I was getting my undergraduate degree in music education, less since). I recently picked up an electronic piano so I can get back into it again, and I've noticed that my left hand and forearm get tired/sore fairly quickly, especially if I'm playing something like Maple Leaf Rag with lots of octave reaches in the left hand. What can I do to combat this fatigue? get a teacher
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Jul 25, 2022 03:43
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Try to relax your hand/forearm a bit and let the weight of your arm and gravity be the force. Also just keep practicing and build your muscles. You can run octave scales as well.
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Jul 25, 2022 06:37
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Alizee posted:Try to relax your hand/forearm a bit and let the weight of your arm and gravity be the force. This is something my teacher is trying to drill into me and I'm finding it a lot harder than it sounds. Speaking of teachers, having a teacher with experience teaching non-musical-beginner* adults has been a much better experience than just getting walked through a method like Alfred's (which is what my previous teacher was doing). Right now we're working through Mikrokosmos and also drawing stuff from Guhl's Keyboard Proficiency, with some theory and ear training on the side. It's too early to quantify whether my progress is any faster, but it's certainly much more satisfying. * e: I should clarify what that means, I am a total baby on piano but was a serious wind instrument player years ago
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hooah posted:I learned to play back in like 4th-7th grades, and have sort of dabbled ever since (more while I was getting my undergraduate degree in music education, less since). I recently picked up an electronic piano so I can get back into it again, and I've noticed that my left hand and forearm get tired/sore fairly quickly, especially if I'm playing something like Maple Leaf Rag with lots of octave reaches in the left hand. What can I do to combat this fatigue? Alizee posted:Try to relax your hand/forearm a bit and let the weight of your arm and gravity be the force. This is definitely a good technique for ragtime left hand. I would add to try and almost bounce/spring off the notes onto the next ones if you can. Though that probably is more use in playing it faster than preventing fatigue. If you want to pursue playing and keep getting better, then I do also echo the recommendation to get a teacher.
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Jul 26, 2022 00:48
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 I’ve never been so pissed off by a nursery rhyme. Why do my left hand and right hand hate doing different things. WHY.
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Jul 27, 2022 23:11
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Pollyanna posted:I’ve never been so pissed off by a nursery rhyme. Why do my left hand and right hand hate doing different things. WHY. Here’s a pro-tip. Practice each hand individually. When you can do a hand correctly 5x in a row, move to the other hand. Same thing. Then combine.
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Jul 27, 2022 23:47
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Pollyanna posted:
Dont think of it as two hands doing two different things. Read each beat as a single chord that you play with 10 fingers.
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Jul 27, 2022 23:52
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idk if I'm misreading what y'all are posting or what, but we all realize that those are two separate lines intended to be played one after the other, right? Not together?
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Discussion Quorum posted:Right now we're working through Mikrokosmos How do you like working with it? I love the Mikrokosmos for general music learning and I've been hacking my way through it for two years now. Pollyanna posted:
It's such an amazing feeling when you get it though and it's yours.
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Hawkperson posted:idk if I'm misreading what y'all are posting or what, but we all realize that those are two separate lines intended to be played one after the other, right? Not together? This hawkperson knows their sheet music.
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Jul 28, 2022 12:34
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Hawkperson posted:idk if I'm misreading what y'all are posting or what, but we all realize that those are two separate lines intended to be played one after the other, right? Not together? gently caress.
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In my defense I’ve been conditioned to see two staves and assume that one hand matches to another. But now I see the end marker and all my excuses are out the window so  At least I managed to do it eventually. This: bltzn posted:Dont think of it as two hands doing two different things. Read each beat as a single chord that you play with 10 fingers. helped a lot!
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Pollyanna posted:I’ve never been so pissed off by a nursery rhyme. Why do my left hand and right hand hate doing different things. WHY. During piano learning attempt 1.0, Jingle Bells was the first thing to really trip me up on hand independence  Although as others have noted I think you are supposed to switch hands halfway through, not try them simultaneously. One, because that's how the song goes and two, because the double bars at the end of a measure indicate the end of the song. If you were playing both hands together, both lines would have those double bars. Unless of course the practice directions referenced above say otherwise but that would be odd. (E: refresh thread before posting  )NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:How do you like working with it? I love the Mikrokosmos for general music learning and I've been hacking my way through it for two years now. It's good! We're still in volume 1 but it's much more musically satisfying than Alfred's. I like how it has you changing positions almost right away and doesn't just have you playing ditties in major keys, so we get some side discussions on theory as well. Makes me feel like a real piano player!
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hello goons last year after playing guitar and bass for like 13 years I decided to buy a drum set and a piano (weighted keys casio keyboard ) i've mostly ignored the piano and played drums but a recent hand injury has me staying away from the drums and going back to piano. I never really did anything official last year on keyboard instead just kind of jamming around until I hit a road block, really never using both hands. this week i've decided to pick it up again and try learning Martha My Dear (good lord is that intro hard). I think i'm doing alright and I almost have the intro down which is good for me. I guess my question is does anyone know any other songs in that range that would be fun to learn? i'm not looking to dig in seriously yet (although i'd love to either be good enough to play at a dueling pianos bar but that'll never happen lmao) but instead develop my left and right hand technique. i'm open to books, videos, teacher etc. thanks!
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Aug 1, 2022 13:17
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I can’t recommend PianoForAll enough. Video course with supplemental PDFs and multiple song recommendations for every technique learned. It’s like 39 bucks for a one time purchase.
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Captain Apollo posted:I can’t recommend PianoForAll enough. Video course with supplemental PDFs and multiple song recommendations for every technique learned. Sweeet I picked this up
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I picked up PianoForAll as my second attempt to teach myself piano. I’m halfway through the first book, learning chords and rhythms. My question is, when do I learn to play “real” songs? Practicing chord progressions is great, but none of the exercises and examples so far sound like “real” music.
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I don’t know about that specific course, but I don’t think there’s a method book in the world that doesn’t feel like fake music so you aren’t alone there. The fact is this instrument just has so many things to learn that you have to spend awhile in the basic technique trenches before your mind and hands are ready to move on. Since it’s got you doing chord progressions already, maybe look for a lead sheet online for a simple tune you know really well, like a kids song or a Christmas carol. Then you can try integrating the chords you’ve learned with a melody in the right hand and see how it goes. Also obligatory mention that a human teacher can probably get you into appropriate “real” repertoire even faster.
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When you say real songs do you mean melodies? Because I think in PianoForYou you don't start that until Book 5 or 6 ("Ballad Style"), everything before is accompaniment, i.e. chords and rhythms. Full disclosure I haven't gone through PianoForYou, only skimmed the content. I also echo the sentiment above about everything you play feeling like lovely toy pieces for ages.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:I picked up PianoForAll as my second attempt to teach myself piano. I’m halfway through the first book, learning chords and rhythms. My question is, when do I learn to play “real” songs? Practicing chord progressions is great, but none of the exercises and examples so far sound like “real” music. I get that. You’re being taught muscle memory and backing chords and rhythms for the first book. It’s intended to help you be able to play chords while being able to sing over the songs or have band members take part. Try going into “Ballad Style” and work on doing a C Am F G progression in your left hand while improvising with your right. Even better get a backing drum track and do it. I bet you’ll feel like you’re making real music pretty quickly. Last thing - playing solo anything (beginner/early intermediate) usually feels dumb but when you’ve got drums and bass and a little guitar going on the whole thing turns into magic.
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speak for yourself, i’m learning all the hits in Alfred Adult Lesson Book 1: when the saints go marching in, little brown jug, greensleeves, the entertainer. all #1 hit tunes
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a.p. dent posted:speak for yourself, i’m learning all the hits in Alfred Adult Lesson Book 1: when the saints go marching in, little brown jug, greensleeves, the entertainer. all #1 hit tunes
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Sauzer posted:The arrangement of the entertainer is actually pretty musical and fun, as are the other songs in the last section of that. Everyone should know how to play Chattanooga Choo Choo for solo piano! it's good stuff! i also like Raisins & Almonds which i'd never heard before. i dunno, maybe after playing solo guitar for so long even the most basic solo piano stuff sounds amazingly full to me
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I've been learning the piano for a few months now, and I've been recording myself to get used to playing in front of people a bit, and to show my parents. And I figured I would share a couple of things I'm pretty happy with with you all. Now, keep it mind that I'm new and neither of these are performance ready or anything, but I'm not really getting things to performance ready at this point in my learning, so they're the best I've got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQI39R2Hk_Y Sarabande by William Gillock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFYMmPlAlE Little Waltz in E Minor by Caroline Miller Forgive my amateur video, I've never seen this uploading side of youtube, and I have no idea what I'm doing.
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a.p. dent posted:speak for yourself, i’m learning all the hits in Alfred Adult Lesson Book 1: when the saints go marching in, little brown jug, greensleeves, the entertainer. all #1 hit tunes All the songs they can publish without paying copyright fees But actually this is a good look at things. INTJ Mastermind, why don’t you purchase an “Insert Favorite Artist here Easy Piano Book” After a year I purchased a book on Disney Songs at intermediate difficulty and although it kicked my rear end for two months I can play Beauty and the Beast. Also, look into HDpiano.com. It has thousands of excellent video tutorials of songs. All of them have a free preview on YouTube to see if you like it.
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Jester Mcgee posted:I've been learning the piano for a few months now, and I've been recording myself to get used to playing in front of people a bit, and to show my parents. And I figured I would share a couple of things I'm pretty happy with with you all. Now, keep it mind that I'm new and neither of these are performance ready or anything, but I'm not really getting things to performance ready at this point in my learning, so they're the best I've got. well done! nice pieces. keep up the good work
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Thanks, I've been having a blast with it. I honestly didn't expect playing the piano to be so much dang fun.
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What the hell am i supposed to do about this bit? There's no pedal marking. I've just been ignoring it so far but it bugs me My only guess is to just use the pedal anyway but it sounds markedly different from the rest of the piece if i do
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You pedal both the B and the G at the start of your pink section, but the B is also part of the melodic line under the slur, continuing with the G and D, so you are supposed to give it a touch more emphasis than the G played at the same time. So it although it is sustained it also sounds as part of that melodic line.
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I mean how do I do that while also holding the chord at the start of the measure, I'd have to pedal the whole thing. I guess that's just what i have to do?
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Aug 28, 2022 14:53
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Yes. It's all the same notes anyway so it won't be dissonant.
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Thank you! E: oh! Duh. It just clicked what you were telling me to do in your first reply. Now i get it! Thank you again 
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No probs. Yeah I initially thought you were asking why the B is written both as dotted minim and crotchet.
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A musics clip link! I decided to pick up a keyboard today and it's been fun. That clip is after about four hours of getting familiar with it. I should start with the accepted basics, but I wrote something to learn instead, cause I am stupid. I'm primarily a guitarist but wanted something to branch out with. It's been great, and does a bit of MIDI so I can sequence drums and stuff quite a bit nicer than a mouse. I don't really know what my goals are with this. I like piano, it's a nice sound, and I was right in thinking it would help me approach compositions differently. I'm a tiny bit fixated on jazz right now, but that's just a current fancy. I have no intentions of getting good in any professional standard, so this is gonna be self taught baybee. Looking at the OP it doesn't seem like there's a tonne of random suggestions or anything about basic form etc that I could see. In general it seems hard to find that sort of thing? I have a seat, I have great posture, making sure not to twist and bend in weird ways, turns out my pinky does pretty fine with keys. Any general suggestions short of "read 108 pages"?
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syntaxfunction posted:Looking at the OP it doesn't seem like there's a tonne of random suggestions or anything about basic form etc that I could see. In general it seems hard to find that sort of thing? I have a seat, I have great posture, making sure not to twist and bend in weird ways, turns out my pinky does pretty fine with keys. Any general suggestions short of "read 108 pages"? Your clip sounds cool! good luck
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