Help me on my quest to bring awareness to what school doesn't teach about playing music.
Our education system has most people thinking that the act of playing Music is performing a specific set of rehearsed notes the same way every performance. That's true in some cases, but so is creativity and improvisation. Generally speaking, school doesn't teach you the creativity part.
Music takes practice and rehearsal, but let's compare it to sports. A basketball team rehearses or practices, but there's a big difference between a basketball game and a Harlem Globetrotters show. To someone who has never seen either, they probably won't realize how completely different the concepts are. Orchestras/school are like the Globetrotters, rehearsing to perform the exact same thing every show. Most bands are little like playing a game. You have practiced plays and moves, but you never know exactly how the songs will unfold. It's like a game. Have fun, and try to play off your team(band)mates.
Right? I like to teach jump to my students cus it's easy enough to grasp if your brand new, but the solo takes a little time to nail down if your new. Either way it's a great tune for the keys.
Impressive! Really! Though cant ignore the elephant in the room that the bass is overpowering the lead by much. And its not the sexy dx7 bass 1 unfortunately
I’m sorry, but I teach my students the opposite. In my opinion, playing the keys st their base sacrifices control and speed and makes the keys harder to hit because they are narrower. Sure, it works when you just have to play with quick fingers and your hand can stay stationary, but as soon as you have to play arpeggios or runs you‘re gonna regret having your fingers up there. The wrist movement gives you much more control and it‘s useful in many more situations. 😊
@@roberttheis3832 You're not wrong. Ideally we don't want to be that far inboard, and anyone who has played piano for even a few minutes figures that out quickly. This tip doesn't go out to people who are playing arpeggios across multiple octaves. This is for folks who are still new and just coming to grips with the keys and still getting comfortable with stretching an octave spread in the fingers.
@@mattoakley5613 Gotcha. I missed that completely, sorry. For beginners trying to get comfortable with the feel of the keys, this definately makes sense. If I get a beginner student in the near future, I'll definately try it out and see how they respond :)
My approach is a bit unorthodox. When working with an absolute beginner, I throw all the rules out the window. They pick a song they like and I show them a riff, melody, chord/root movement from it. Something iconic. I show them what the notes are, but say nothing about technique. I want them focused 100% on sound and expression. Once they hear that riff come to life and they begin to find the joy in playing (regardless of how crazy or bad a technique they came up with) I say "Awesome! You got it! Now let's talk some technique!" It may let some bad habits roll around the first couple days or weeks, but I think having that feeling of accomplishment from learning a song they picked in the first day or week makes people more eager to practice and improve cus they already "saw the light."
@@ellymyths yeah, but just your hands! Try not to lean in/over the keys. When you look at your posture, pretend you're watching a T-Rex and a monkey play a piano. Play like a monkey with long arms 🙃
How do you know what chords you're playing? My answer I don't! lol! I've never know what chords I'm playing, I've only known what key I'm in or my master mode, what my diatonic master key is...I could give a shit less about what chords I'm playing. Fuck pianist!! and other instruments, my guitar is the fucking best! My guitar and me piss excellence! Guitars or for the Gods, the rest take a back set...hop in the back and hold my beer.
I’ve been feeling this too. It takes a few seconds to identify what chord I’m playing but honestly it seems like a waste of time. I understand how to find the key and all of the chords and triad shapes of the key. The note names don’t matter - I just know their positions and can be confident that I’m playing the right notes
@@martea726 Right On! yes martea726 We play all kinds of techniques don't we bro? We don't care to think about what notes we're passing our fingers over when we play triads, major, minor, augmented, diminished runs, harmonic minor shred runs, pentatonic runs, diatonic runs beyond calculation in pentatonic or diatonic... and all their relative arpeggios and all the arpeggio variations, melodic minor runs with the neo-classical 3NPS shred, 7 NPS shred alternate speed picking, ascending and descending in 4s 5s, neo-classical pedal licks, double stops, bends, vibratos, slides, sliding with a bend, tapping, hammer ons pull offs, right hand muting technique executing kick ass staccato, legato, double bends, trills, warp speed tremolo picking, finger picking etc etc etc...we rape the fretboard daily! Oh yes, why in the fuck would we care about piano keys and notes? I don't thin we do, we live to pickup our most excellent axes and jam on our killer gear. We love changing strings on our guitars, we know our guitars and love them they're sacred to us. We have Ikigai (ee-key-guy) is a Japanese concept for that which gives your life worth, meaning, or purpose.
Prime example, sir! I got to play with a lot of great instrumentalists when in the choir/orchestra/theater/opera scene while I was in school, but when I picked up bass to join some wedding/bar/festival bands it rocked my world a little bit. Most of those guys were better instrumentalists, but none of them really had any idea what they were doing. That was when I started to realize that there's something more important than the science and theory of Music.
@@martea726Learning these concepts is what let's other folks pick up any other instrument and be able to make sense of it day one. If there isn't any interest in other instruments it probably wouldn't give much of a leg up. It probably would mostly help with just communicating with other non guitarists.
Thanks! I just got the gopro mounts and harnesses. I think I'm looking forward to whipping up content lol. I definitely gotta get a room mic out in front of the band to mix in better audio.
Ah... Well it started out as wanting to a full cover/lesson the drum kit, bass, and electric... But I ran into a couple recording hiccups so I just whipped that up ... But your right 😞 I should have whipped it up from the tank.
It's so true. I'm starting to play other instruments with bands more for experience and variety, but bass is a lot of fun. There's a lot of weight to those low notes and you can swing a band around.
I absolutely LOVE this song... You fell asleep in my car, I drove the whole time But that's okay, I'll just avoid the holes so you sleep fine I'm driving, here I sit, cursing my government For not using my taxes to fill holes with more cement
I pulled it from my video "a stoll through my mind." It's a long rambling video to just get my ideas out. Eventually I plan on making an organized music course on patreon, but for now RU-vid is my rough draft.
They are basic bar chords. Look up the "caged system." Its a great concept and will help understand how I build chords off the basic riffs. tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/3-doors-down/kryptonite-tabs-19140 this is the tab off ultimate guitar, but I think I used it as an option for a way to play it. Good Luck.
Randomly happened upon your channel today. I've been playing guitar for ~15 years, never got *good*. Had a teacher once, near the start, but mostly self-taught. Why am I rambling this context? Because you do a great job at teaching. It really feels like you found something you're passionate about and thought "This is cool enough other people might find it cool if they knew". So, subscribed. Keep it up!
I'm trying to "give music back to the people" In a nutshell, drum circles have been part of cultures for *tens of thousands* of years and nobody needed lessons. Everyone just felt the rhythm. In the last 500-1000 years the "language" of music developed scales. It's almost like "rhythm became three dimensional" by adding pitch/notes to the rhythms. It's not rocket science, but it's a physical language that's taught as a science. I'm trying to change the game. Thanks for the support.
