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Post by Kapitan on Jan 16, 2021 1:16:43 GMT
Anybody wanna form a band? We'll meet in Indiana for rehearsals.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 16, 2021 1:40:24 GMT
Anybody wanna form a band? We'll meet in Indiana for rehearsals. Sounds like a perfect location to me.
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Post by lonelysummer on Jan 17, 2021 3:28:21 GMT
More generally, and even more so, I regret not learning music theory, how to read music, and how to play the piano when I was a kid. Oooh that reminds me: I took one school-year of piano lessons in third grade. In fact, I would miss the first little bit of school for it, which was weird. I don't know how that was arranged, since the lessons were outside of school, not provided there. I'd go to take lessons from a woman in the basement of the Catholic church (just me and her in an empty auditorium, the piano in "the pit" in front of the stage).
Piano was like a lot of subjects have been for me: supremely easy for a while, so I don't really do things the right way or try very hard but yet am "doing well." And then suddenly it's hard, I don't get it, and I suck. I quit piano partly because of that, but also largely because it just seemed effeminate to an 8- or 9-year-old boy. Shockingly my parents let me quit.
But once I got to college as a jazz performance (guitar) major, I had to pass piano proficiency. And it was the same situation all over again (well, minus the church basement). But I kept wishing I'd just stuck with it, because by then I was also just more musically inclined in general, having recorded on cassette 4-track at home, jamming with friends, etc., and it was obvious that being a real piano player would have helped. I definitely learned piano around then (actually in late high school) and advanced somewhat later, but I learned it like guitar, not like piano. Does that make sense? Like, I would basically plunk along with chords, not sight-reading at all and very slow even to read not in real time. My hands' independence is crap. I'm just a plunker, and it's my own fault.
The one bright side: that means I can usually manage Brian Wilson's piano parts!
EDIT - all that said, somewhat ironically based on your post, music theory was something I really did pursue and work on. While I didn't get it in high school (except through my private guitar lessons and personal effort), I absolutely dug into that in college, even switching my major from jazz performance to theory and composition. It turned out I was better at theory than at any instrument--by far.
I've never been any good at sight reading music. Not much of a piano player, either. I was told back in kindergarten I was uncoordinated; maybe that's why I can't get down the thing of playing one part with the left hand, and a different part with the right hand. I was a pretty good drummer at one time, but I wanted to be a singer, and that's hard to do behind a drum set. Especially if the guys up front are depending on you to show them the chord changes. So I'm mostly a singer and rhythm guitarist. Play a bit of bass, which I'm starting to think I would have been great at if I'd made it my number one instrument. I have a good ear for the overall picture - what every instrument should be doing, not overplaying, which is the hardest part of leading a band. Everybody wants to be the star, the bass player thinks he's playing the lead instrument, the drummer is playing fills all over the place, and the keyboard and guitar players all have their amps up to 11. If you're not a singer, who cares how freaking loud it is, cause you're not trying to hear your voice over all that noise!
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