What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Been playing rock guitar and bass for 36 years. Also played some keyboard which I usually sequenced using a computer and mouse fix.
I began 10 months ago seriously but without a teacher. I wanted to fill a huge hole in my life: learning the piano. I randomly found some virtuoso playing on r/piano and fell frustrated how that guy was fullfilling his desire to make good music alone.
When I was young, we had a piano but my sister who prclaimed it as hers had forbidden me to even open its deck.
Now I have mine: a Yamaha P-45 and another P-125 in the holiday home.
Hint: set the sensitivity to max otherwise you will always play forte on a real piano.
Thanks for the book links!🤗
My tiny pinkies can't span an octave. That plus Dupuytren's Contracture means that I'll never play piano. :(
Why not play what you can play? Kind of lame example but I'm a long-time bass player (by ear, only bits of theory at best) and (due to a guitar amp I had lying around) I figured why not get a guitar to a) try to actually learn the thing including b) chords/theory.
Well, guitars are fairly horrible things with fiddly tiny strings all crammed together, and chords are highly annoying as well. Point of this ramble is I'm gradually learning, getting better with all of it (not switching back and forth to bass is helping here) BUT partial chords are a thing, different voicings are a thing, etc - I wouldn't let a physical limitation get in the way - I can't imagine the majority of piano pieces require chords that include the octave for instance.
Disclaimers: 1) Not a piano/kb player in the slightest 2) Yes I realize probably best path to chords theory really but trying not to go in yet another direction (music farting around is kind of secondary to other things going on these days anyway).
What if you use a reduced size keyboard?