Need advice. I feel stuck.
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 12547 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Keyboard is baffling, all the keys are the same size. Try guitar, much easier - different size frets with the little dots, and if you get the chord wrong you can bend the notes and pretend you meant it.
- KVRAF
- 40139 posts since 11 Aug, 2008 from clown world
Remember, there are no 'wrong notes' in Jazz. People might say .... That dude Funkaroma does some bad ass playin'.
Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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- KVRian
- 1090 posts since 24 Jul, 2018
Did you buy the only the midi keyboard that doesn't come with melodics or what?
https://melodics.com/
That program is quite an amazing tools for learning how to play. Also another thing I hear people say is just to learn one key/scale like say learn the Cminor scale then just transpote the midi.
But honestly I don't understand the problem with using the midi utilities that force the notes you press into the correct key. There's nothing wrong with that and that's how I started and what happened was I started to learn the scales easier and found myself taking it off so I could go out of it because every note doesn't need to be in the same scale.
https://melodics.com/
That program is quite an amazing tools for learning how to play. Also another thing I hear people say is just to learn one key/scale like say learn the Cminor scale then just transpote the midi.
But honestly I don't understand the problem with using the midi utilities that force the notes you press into the correct key. There's nothing wrong with that and that's how I started and what happened was I started to learn the scales easier and found myself taking it off so I could go out of it because every note doesn't need to be in the same scale.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105553 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
just so you know, when i said learn c, then move up i meant learn to play the scales, not transpose to them.
just clearing that up
just clearing that up
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 177 posts since 20 Dec, 2018
Guitar is not the instrument which is usefull for my type of music that I create. Don’t get me wrong I really enjoy some music with guitar especially blues, but I try to create techno/electro, so yeah it is not very handy.donkey tugger wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:00 am Keyboard is baffling, all the keys are the same size. Try guitar, much easier - different size frets with the little dots, and if you get the chord wrong you can bend the notes and pretend you meant it.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 177 posts since 20 Dec, 2018
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 177 posts since 20 Dec, 2018
Never heard of that program, but it seems like a good tool! I see it comes with 60 free lessons so I going to try it out tonight for sure! Thanks for the recommendationSoundPorn wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:15 pm Did you buy the only the midi keyboard that doesn't come with melodics or what?
https://melodics.com/
That program is quite an amazing tools for learning how to play. Also another thing I hear people say is just to learn one key/scale like say learn the Cminor scale then just transpote the midi.
But honestly I don't understand the problem with using the midi utilities that force the notes you press into the correct key. There's nothing wrong with that and that's how I started and what happened was I started to learn the scales easier and found myself taking it off so I could go out of it because every note doesn't need to be in the same scale.
Sure transposing notes seems like a option, but I want to be able to just play the minors and major scales + some exotic scales. I think you can always transpose the notes to experiment no matther if you know all the scales or not.
Yeah midi utilities does work to create something that doesn’t sound off, but I catch myself that I don’t pay attention anymore what key I’m pressing. If I make a mistake I can’t hear which wrong key I pressed. I think for some people this can work perfectly but just not for me I guess.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 177 posts since 20 Dec, 2018
Yeah I already realized that. I’m now trying to learn C natural minor. I downloaded a virtual piano app on my phone with just one octave. I’m pretty good with my phone and I already got the hang of it I believe. Its a good way to create a pattern in my mind to know how it is build up. Now the next step is to translate it to my keyboard. My keyboard only got 25 keys, do you think this would be good enough to actually learn on? The next 2 weeks I’ll focus just on learning C minor natural and then next D minor natural till I’m back at C minor again. Then I’ll go to the melodic and harmonic minor scales. I don’t want to force myself to get everything in my mind in a short time, because I know that ain’t going to work. So yeah thats my plan for now. I am going to be busy with learning 1 hour a day and try to split that in 2 seperate 30 minutes of learning. Total of 14 hours to learn the C natural minor scale with all the chords.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
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- addled muppet weed
- 105553 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
@funkorama, 25 keys will be enough to learn the shapes of the scales with the hands.
but if in future you wish to play piano, rather than just using keys in a daw, you'll want a bigger range of course, as you're usually going to be playing across two octaves maybe in the left hand and 2 or more with the right.
it really depends on the final goal.
no point owning a grand piano if you just want to do monophonic lead
however, the more you do know, the more you can do
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 177 posts since 20 Dec, 2018
My main goal is to create melodies to my tracks. Not necessary monophonic. I want to be able to play chords as well.vurt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:40 pm
@funkorama, 25 keys will be enough to learn the shapes of the scales with the hands.
but if in future you wish to play piano, rather than just using keys in a daw, you'll want a bigger range of course, as you're usually going to be playing across two octaves maybe in the left hand and 2 or more with the right.
it really depends on the final goal.
no point owning a grand piano if you just want to do monophonic lead
however, the more you do know, the more you can do
Do you think the method that I want to use to learn scales is a good one? And is it a good start to actually start right now to learn scales? In the meantime I’m going to learn finger technique as well.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105553 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
if you feel it's working then yes it's a good way to start
scales and the keys they belong to, is the basis of what you are looking to achieve, so a good starting point yes.
all your chords are built from these scales, so that should come later.
practicing playing to a metronome, slowly and building up, will help with basic rhythm.
once you have the very fundamental basics, then it's easier to navigate, as you begin to have the right terminology and understanding to ask the right questions
scales and the keys they belong to, is the basis of what you are looking to achieve, so a good starting point yes.
all your chords are built from these scales, so that should come later.
practicing playing to a metronome, slowly and building up, will help with basic rhythm.
once you have the very fundamental basics, then it's easier to navigate, as you begin to have the right terminology and understanding to ask the right questions
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- addled muppet weed
- 105553 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
well knowing which notes you have available in a given key will help building the chords.
just makes it easier (imo) to move forward in small steps.
try to do too much at once, you'll start getting mixed up and even frustrated to a point you give in.
especially with no onsite teacher to guide you.
just makes it easier (imo) to move forward in small steps.
try to do too much at once, you'll start getting mixed up and even frustrated to a point you give in.
especially with no onsite teacher to guide you.
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- KVRian
- 880 posts since 26 Oct, 2011
I think ideally you want to learn chords as you're learning the scales. Now I might be entirely off here, but that seems to be the pedagogically accepted way.
With that being said, I think there's also two ways of going about: if you learn how to construct different chords on their own right and you also have learned the scales, well, you can just take any note and get the chord like that. But I really don't know if that's effective vs. learning chords per scale.
There's one piano course which I am trying to learn that basically has a module for each scale and in every case it goes through the chords, arpeggios etc which is not really "new information" but it wants you to practice them anyway.
But learning like that will take you a loooooong ass while. My working memory is shite, hence it takes ages for me to progress with building up the muscle memory for each scale.