Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Once you have 200~300 hours of practice, you should/would have enough basic ability for the first instrument locked within you, that you can safely branch out to another instrument.
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Read More »Most of what we end up doing on bass is playing notes of the active chord. So it helps if we can visualize where those notes are on the instrument we are playing. The piano's notes are laid out in a line, not split between four strings, so grasping music theory in general is much easier on the piano . Strumming a chord progression on the rhythm guitar, if you have the fake chord sheet music with you - and you know the finger patterns for the basic 21 chords you could play rhythm accompaniment in any garage band and that can happen in a matter of weeks. Main thing will be getting your strum pattern down. After that the theory of chord progressions will unfold and you will understand why the old guys tell us - on the bass - to follow the chords and play notes of the active chord. One thing that slips between the chairs is that the song writer placed those chords so they share notes with the active melody. If the melody line and the chord line share like notes we get harmony, i.e. both lines sound good with each other. So -- if we play the notes of the harmonizing chord we two will sound good with the melody. That was a big WOW for me and really explains how music thinks. Chords are made from every other note of a scale. If you play the white keys on the piano you end up with C major scale . To make the chords that harmonize with the notes of the C major scale we use every other note of the scale to make the chords in the C major key. Do a Google on stacking 3rds. C, E, G for C major. And D, F, A for Dm. Improvising a melody - on the piano - in C major becomes something that can happen, again because the notes are in a line just waiting on you . Three close notes then a leap of at least a 3rd. You did your first melody lick. Left hand for harmony on the piano, aka chords. Pinky, middle and then thumb make a chord on the piano, i.e. every other note. Pinky on the root note and you are good to go. Right hand chord accompaniment on the piano, using both the right and the left hand. Right hand is thumb, middle and little finger and that will make a chord on the piano. If you sound the right hand one note at a time you have an arpeggio. Melody with the right hand will come from that and here running your scales and their pentatonic help melody happen. Chord accompaniment on the piano: Left hand - pinky (1) thumb (2). Right hand - chord(3) Left hand - thumb (4). Of course this a dirt simple example. Piano theory books - the Alfred series is where I'd send you. Any music store will have them. Yes you will be learning standard notation and that can only help with any music you end up playing. As the bass, piano and rhythm guitar are involved with chords and chord progressions each of those instruments help throw light down the tunnel.
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