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How do you teach yourself to play music?
I wanna do that. I’d love to composer my own music when I become a filmmaker.
Does anyone know how?
It is possible for some people to naturally teach themselves without struggle. to answer your other question, your on your own. You can get lessons. I am now getting guitar and clairinet lessons, i already know how to play keyboard, violin, and cello.
It’s good if you teach yourself to some degree, otherwise you may end up sounding like everyone else.
If you want to do that, then do it. That is all there is to it. Get yourself a sequencer or a piano and just start hitting random notes until it sounds good to you. It takes time and alot of patience though, so good luck.
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Yep, that’s how I started out, although I’m kicking myself in the ass now because I’m not that great at theory. You probably should learn some theory early on.
Well, with Danny’s musical background and the whole Mystic Knights and traveling with his brother… it’s not like he taught himself music in a vacuum. There were influences along the way.
No harm in piano lessons, at the very least so you can read and write sheet music, thus communicating with your (future) orchestra.
if you’re going to teach yourself, indefinitely the most beneficial instrument to learn on would be piano. Dmitri Shostakovich once said that every composer should be at least proficient on the piano.
Once you have a good grasp of it, learning all the other instruments will, for the most part, be a great deal easier.
And LOTS of great musicians have taught themselves, so don’t let anyone bog you down about it.
BTW, that’s not to say that learning to be proficient on the piano is easy…
it’s probably the hardest instrument to develop admirable chops on, in my opinion second in difficulty only to the violin.
but Im talking classical music here, I don’t know what you’ll be interested in.
Learn to play by ear, if you can play by ear, you can write by ear. Try to play something complex, and record each part individually.
like try to use a midi keyboard and/or software sequencer to sequence a song you like, regardless of genre, the violins, the xylophone, the tuba, or electric guitar and keyboard, anything you can make out individually, and sequence it part by part. If you can do that, you can use whatever creativity you would have applied toward theory you could have learned, and instead apply it without learning the theory. The more complex you can hear, the more complex you can create. I learned some theory in high school, but I don’t use any of it when composing or creating. If you can sit down and play, and envision where you want it to go, then playing by ear out of your head will get you there.
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