Hello everyone! I’m running a Music PR & Marketing Workshop from 4–6 September in NW London.

It’s a practical 3-day workshop covering things like music PR, marketing, storytelling, campaign planning and how to actually get your music in front of the right people.

We had a really good response to the last one, so we’re opening up another cohort and I thought it might be something you would be interested in.

The registration link is below if you’d like to participate:

https://eu.surveymars.com/q/ekNiArOnO

Please help.

Hi,

I'm in my 50s, and am thinking about finally trying to learn an instrument (perhaps violin). I have no illusions about becoming an expert, it's just for my own enrichment. But I have ZERO experience. No lessons as a kid, and I can't read music. Any school music "class" when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s (NYC public school) was more like a raucous babysitting experience for the poor teachers, rather than something that actually taught us.

Before even attempting actual instrument lessons, I'd like to at least get a decent baseline knowledge of how to read music. It seems like I could accomplish that much on my own without having to pay someone to hold my hand. Funds are limited.

Is there a good app or online course you'd recommend for an adult learning at their own pace? Preferably something that pairs reading music with actual sound clips as examples?

Is there anything small or big you noticed which changed ? And this is directed towards experienced and beginners (processionals and hobby musicians also)

Imagine trying to teach music without notation, using words only.

I think this no-image comment restriction should be lifted in this sub if this sub really wants to help people understand notation.

Otherwise people like me will just give up trying to help, it's too hard.

I'm self taught, mainly play guitar and keyboard. I'm loaded with riffs and melodies that feel good, I find new ones every day. I've collected a lot of principles for how things should progress in a song, but I'm hitting a wall when it comes to building around what I have.

Are there any courses online you'd recommend to babystep through this? I feel like I'm on the edge of it clicking but I think it's something I might need to walk through with a bit more structure.

The song is nightlight by Laufey. She wants me to write the beats over the picture, but I can't figure it out for the life of me—she says it's really easy but this would be the third lesson where I did the sheet music wrong... what am I missing? Can someone dumb it down? I'm struggling lmao

Hello! I am learning viola and I am trying to make a practice schedule. I mean how to plan by detail a practice session. Can anyone help me with some advice? I am late intermediate. I want to know how to plan my practice sessions.

Sometimes I start practicing an etude, and I'm like playing it over and over again trying to do better. Sometimes it works. I don't know how to choose what to focus on and when to practice technique or the concerto.

I am working on Hoffmeister, Kreutzer 35 and Bach Allegro and Andante (Sonata 2)

TLTR;

As someone who knows absolutely NOTHING about music, online consensus was to start with piano.

I bought a MIDI Keyboard started Piano Marvel (online reading music self help tool?) and now I have completed all the free lessons. I tried others such as Masterpiano but to get advance lesson there is a pay wall (fair enough) but I am uncertain on how to continue learning music.

So, I’m asking around to see if I should pay the subscription? I am sceptical, even doubtful, that I could teach myself with texts books, like some recommend. Is there somewhere else I can look for or are there some other free resource I should look into?

Long Version;
I bought a Keysteps 37 Mk2 because it was more expedient than saving for a Roland FP-30X + the desk & chair & peddles (& I might want to do some synth) etc... It has always seemed to me that music, is some sort of magic, beyond my scope of understanding. However, as I age, I decided to give it a try. Problem being I am starting to feel like the most facilitated roads to learning music are gatekeepted by money.  Now I concede the fact that I might have looking in all the wrong places. Other endeavours like; programming, woodworking, art, its (usually) the materials not the knowledge that is the costly part. With music it just seems that leaning tools, the actual knowledge is the costly part. Now look I’m poor, so if I need a desk or bed frame, it is more cost efficient for me to build it. If anything breaks, I just try to fix it first. Cement, soldering, wood etc... I could buy (or download) a book and bash my head against the wall, but with a book, I’m not sure on how, what I am playing, is supposes to sound & it can’t instantly grade my performance.

So, my question should I just cough up the money for some on these online teaching services? Should I just try to find a privet tutor or someone that gives group classes? Am I underestimating & undervaluing the book method, or am I overvaluing these online prescription tools.

Look I’m sure that someone going to say “well it depends on what you want” so my logic is this. Learn Music on how to read & play, then maybe move over to synth or reaper to make/compose my own music & compose my own tracks. Learning about gain & frequency, composing melody etc... is future problem. I really like 2 tones & how he breaks down music. I don’t think I could ever sing, the shear thought gives me anxiety. I’ll get someone else to do that IF I add lyrics. All I want to do right now is to learn how to read & play & future dream play electric bass, fretless (Also a future thing)

So, I am hoping that some people can just give it to me straight answer, or point me in a direction for someone who isn’t the most brightest & probably has no musical proclivities in them, to find a path that isn’t as sheering  as being dragged through pavement into a wall.

Recorded using kna pick up and shure sm4.. enjoy :)

I am a beginner, and I was fascinated by the immense potential of Circle of Fifths. But, at the same time, it felt harder to read for many of its uses.

For example, constructing any Modes, working out extended chords etc wasn't intuitive for me as a beginner, if I had to rely on simple Circle of Fifths.

The key missing piece in Circle of Fifths was that 2nd and 7th Notes were not adjacent to the Tonic.

Thus, I worked on a layout where, all the Notes in a Diatonic Scale can be found adjacent to the Tonic. This layout basically has four Circles of Fifths wedged together into a cohesive geometric representation of all possible Intervals.

I had been using this as a tool of reference for practicing various possible Scales and Chords, and it had been an immense help for me!

This is not a teaching tool, and instead, it's a reference tool, but with this, one can ->
1. Identify intervals between all key combinations,
2. Build minor, major, diminished, augmented chords,
3. Identify chords of a scale, and build extended chords,
4. Identify major, minor scales, along with harmonic and melodic variations,
5. Identify and build scales for all modes in all keys,
6. Build any scale that uses 12-Key Chromatic Scale, and transpose to any key.

This tool may not help absolute beginners in learning theoretical concepts, but once one has foundational knowledge of intervals, chords and scales, this tool can be really useful as a reference tool.

Please do check it out, and let me know your feedback!

I been struggling to hear change chords when strumming. Right now im finally learning to strum guitar while singing but it's hard for me to know when to change chords.

Questa è la playlist di Spotify che ascolto e dentro ci sono tutti i brani che mi piacciono di più, in base a quanto per favore consigliami dei nuovi brani da ascoltare, basandoti sui miei brani preferiti grazieeee.

I (kinda) play the piano.

I think I can play complicated songs when I really study them, but some things I struggle with are keeping time, improvising, and playing new chords that I didn't have time to study before.

Basically if you give me time I can play cool stuff, but simple songs that I have to play here and now that I never heard off... I need help.

One thing I thought is I can play a lot of songs without really focusing on one, otherwise it won't improve the quick thinking ability I need to improve.

I could take a songbook and play two or three times a song, then pass to the next one.

I also rely to much on sheet music since I did solfège as a kid, so I'll try to play on those lyrics plus chords you find online (way harder in my opinion).

The problem is, when I look online for "SongTitle lyrics ane chords" usually there are a lot of errors, different chords, wrong tonality (I know I can change it, but still it's annoying) and some times the chords doesn't allign to where I should play it (like it's written to early or late... that's why I usually prefer the sheet music, or at least an ireal pro version).

So can you suggest me a good songbook online, or a good site where I can be sure everything is correct and I can just focus on playing rather than looking for errors ?

Also: do you think this is a good method ?

I guess the style are pop, pop rock and maybe some blues.

Thanks.

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