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A few questions..
I've been playing piano for a good number of years, but not as seriously as I would have liked. I'm 17 now, and really want to get better at piano but am not sure what to look for instructional-wise. While I've played the trumpet, I've never learned to read any music but the treble clef and am having a real hard time with it. I mainly just make up my own chords and get down and dirty banging on my piano. I love jazz, blues, classic rock - and I thought it'd help a lot more to get some sheetmusic of classic rock songs I already know. Anyone know of some good piano sheetmusic I can get my hands on?
I've also really started to get interested in bass guitar. I think it's awesome. I love many a song with a kick ass base line, and I want to learn more. I've mingled with the guitar slightly, It's basically a rearranged piano in my opinion, but had trouble with getting into it. It doesn't quite seem like the bass needs the same approach as a guitar does, though. My boyfriend has an old bass I could borrow. Anyone have tips?
Thanks for anyone replying.
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I know what you mean.. I love to play piano too, but I really didn't practice enough or take it seriously the last few years. Fortunately I have an awesome music teacher who i take lessons with every so often and he's helped me come a long way.. Maybe you could check the ads in your local paper and find some teacher near you.
Good sheet music, huh? check out www.musicnotes.com ... it costs a little for each piece of music but it's really good. all you do is print the music off your computer! also i think there's www.sheetmusicplus.com (sorry if that's not the right link...) I use these things all the time!
Bass is awesome, I'm just getting into electric guitar and stuff.. have fun with all this, it sounds great!
Let me know how it goes!
~Lana
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well i'm not much of a pianist, but i can tell you that the best pianists can do more than one type of style. learn a lot of different styles from rock to classical and all that. jazz, blues and classic rock are all great, and sheet music is a good idea especially if you want to learn the bass clef. i'm actually not great at reading bass clef because i've been playing alto sax in treble since 4th grade. that kinda sucks becaues i play the bass guitar.
bass is a good choice for an instrument...it's easy to learn but impossible to master. basically just start off with some lessons (i didn't and i regret it because i'm not great at the technical stuff) and then start playing songs by decent bassists, and once you can do that go onto playing harder songs. stuff like the red hot chili peppers and some of jaco pastorius' easier works. one tip is to be able to play both with a pick and with your fingers.
hope i helped :)
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Well if you learn musical theory, Specially for the piano... Bass guitar, guitar, or any other musical instrement should be alot easier to understand and play. I think maybe you should take piano lessons from a professional instructor. Also look online for class rock sheet music. Im a big fan of classic rock myself. Anyway, I play guitar... And I love it. I also sing. And I can tell you that if you correctly learn musical theory, that the rest will come alot easy. So, I would take piano lessons. They will teach you how to read music. Like establishing keys, notes, your chords, scales, and how to play. Then, look into bass and you'll probably pick it up alot fast. I sure wish I learned the piano before choir or guitar. My choir directer has encoraged me to learn the piano and has helped me a little. Music is a wonderful thing, But takes practice, passion, and ambition. So I hope I helped a little... And really hope i didn't confuse you in anyway... Best wishes :) -Britty-
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u should get into base...i'm gettin into electic guitar...and me n a couple of friends are startin a band...save your money and take up basee.. good luck <3 Niki Lyn
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do you have a teacher?? a paino class every week is really good for learning piano. i have a big brother hu now iz 17... he quit cuz he plays baseball and has friends that he wants to hang out with and my brother wanted to have more fun then he wuz having b4. a long story... well he had a class for paino every week and he played in concerts and everything. piano teachers... i dont think their very cheap. lol. might cost sum money but they do help. if you do deside to take piano classes make sure to pay attention every class you go to since u r paying the money and you do wunna learn too. lol. hope i helped. good luck pianos cool!! <3 xogiggles37xo.
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well, first off on guitar vs. bass:
I replied to someone else just the other day wondering about bass and switching from guitar. Guitar is chord based, while bass is linear. Yeah, you can play chords on a bass, but that's not the instrument's primary purpose.
While I feel that knowing how to read sheet music is important, as knowing how to write it is very important, especially when arranging - you don't have to know how to read it, if you have a good ear. In fact, having sheet music should really only compliment having a good ear - knowing how to listen and play what you hear is very important.
Much of the classic rock sheet music I've run across over the years is, well, fucking terrible. Most of it is awfully written, dumbed down, not true at all to the original song. In fact, some of it, being published and printed by the likes of Warner music and other big-names - is just flat out wrong - not even CLOSE to what the actual song does on the album/cd. I try to use a combination of the sheet music (which is alwasy expensive - the nature of the business), guitar tab (often from www.olga.net) and playing by ear.
There are a good number of jazz fake books... but the best ones ever are these illegal fake books. I don't have a contact anymore on how to get a hold of them. I have volumes I and II in the Key of Eb (for alto sax), but knowing how to transpose, I can adjust the songs to any key. Each book has about 500 pages of transcriptions done in the 70s and 80s by college jazz students. The accuracy and intricacy of what they have in those books is simply astounding.
I might suggest trying to find a few people to jam with that are also multi-instrumentalists. That way, you all could litterally take turns on different instruments. Even better if you can find people with an interest in blues, jazz, and classic rock as yourself. I mean, hell... those are my interests! So clearly, if there are two of us, there's gotta be more ;)
If I can be of any further help to you (assuming my rambling has even been helpful at all) feel free to pop me a question here, or drop in the chatroom for the site (though often I'm just lurking in there).
Good luck!
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