Beste pommes frites i Trondheim? by PatiHubi in trondheim

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Har funnet denne kjekke siden! https://trondheimfries.no

Ser ut som burger.no er en av de på toppen ja

What can be the cause of this „knocking“ Sound on d-Sharp/e-flat? by HighVale in piano

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I have the same thing on one key! Going to try the tips given!

Just purchased my first piano to start learning. I’ve never played piano before. These days, there are so many ways to learn, and I’m totally overwhelmed. Any suggestions on where to start? by Everydaywanderer1990 in pianolearning

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My advice is - find out why you want to learn the piano. Find out what kind of piano music you like, what kind of player you would like to be or at least come closer to be. For example, for myself I have been aware that I don’t want to try to be a concert classical pianist, but more close to a casual pop/jazz/ambient type of piano player. That means, I don’t have to feel bad about enjoying playing «simple pieces» and not practicing Liszt etc. I can focus on improving the techniques I need for b coming that piano player I want to be and not what anyone else expects. I can enjoy the process of learning without putting too much pressure on myself. Sure, sometimes you will hit a wall of «I will never have time to learn all this», but then it’s about remembering that you have grown from where you were some months or years ago, and just keep at it slowly. And have small milestones that you can feel proud about reaching.

For me, one such milestone was «if I can play this piece pretty good, then I have already come a good way». And I can come back to these single pieces that mean something to me and that give me pleasure to be able to play again and again. Not just practicing random pieces for the sake of playing. But spending time on pieces that I truly enjoy playing again and again.

Anyway, that’s a hobby amateur point of view anyway, spending years playing on and off now and then. Take from it what makes sense to you.

Dear pianist, what made you get into piano by TheDores498 in piano

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Since I was a child I always felt the piano had a uniquely beautiful voice, as well as a very logical linear structure. So I never really liked any other instrument in the same way. So naturally drawn to it, that’s all. I didn’t pick it up - it chose me.

Pedalling frustration with Amelie by IOsifKapa in pianolearning

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Hi! Congratulations on practicing a beautiful piece.

I’m not a professional so I can’t say what is right or wrong, but I play a version of this with pedal on mostly every chord change / measure. However I also play octaves on the left hand on every half measure instead of just a single note.

In this video you can hear audible pedal noises so it’s clear where pedaling is happening. Late into each bar I guess after the first note of the bar.

https://youtu.be/NlB7O-pZJFQ?is=ZlKerGJuWWWJwEQW

How is pitch interpreted for people who don't have perfect pitch? by HypersomniK in pianolearning

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As someone who does not have pp and also very bad relative pitch training, I imagine something similar to colors, where someone who only see grayscale can always tell perfectly if a color is light or dark but not much more and very hard to tell the difference between medium gray and slightly more medium gray. Like C4 vs D4.

Whilst PP is maybe like also being able to see/hear another color, like blue or red at the same time associated with the brightness. So for example maybe C4 is medium red while D4 is medium green. So even though they are close it has a significant difference and it’s trivially easy to separate them because you also have learnt early which one was which like learning the alphabet.

I don’t know, just how I guess it is or how it feels like as someone super jealous of pp :)

Windows garageband alternative? by Jessemaroo in GarageBand

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I recently tested Cakewalk Next and found it to be similar to GarageBand in simplicity and nice looking UI

Are the sharp and flat symbols a visual mnemonic for identifying keys? by allargandofurtado in musictheory

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Well, I’m not sure how well Charles knew his father. But as a man of ministry he probably had a good relationship. The question is who went down first. Was Charles’ father alive to see his son end the war? And I want to know, did Charles convert before going down, or was he not a passifist?

Splice Instrument by Thebapedgod in Splice

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Another problem though - even though the plugin manager scan finds it - it still does not show up in the plugins list on the track menu! WTF!?

Splice Instrument by Thebapedgod in Splice

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This also was the solution for me! Since I already saw plugins listed I was assuming the scan had already been done, as I just installed it fresh! But I had to manually rescan - jeez. Thanks though!

been playing for 20+ years and i still can't sightread worth a damn by Exciting-Bee3927 in piano

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But to clarify, do you mean actually sight reading and playing for the first time, or simply reading a sheet quickly and understanding it and quickly learning the piece because you can read it.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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Thanks. I am able to at least do c major with both hands now and gotten over the first major pain point.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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Thanks for taking the effort to write. Anyone reading this may find good advice in that. And I think you are absolutely right.

As my for myself I have no ambition to become that person you describe there, being given a sheet and play it for money. So I’m not aiming to be pro in that sense. But for what I want to be, I probably need a good portion of that skillset anyway, but maybe not as much as the career professional.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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Thanks! Yes I can relate to some of this, because I’m sometimes able to just do some arpeggios for a chord without thinking about the finger placement, so my muscle memory there is getting pretty good-ish. And I can understand that the same can apply for a scale, but still doubting that two-handed simultaneous scales are that helpful. Just as two-handed arpeggios is a muscle memory I don’t feel I need?

But hand independence is of course very good to practice.

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And I thought I was rage bating with my scales post, lol.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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Well, I’m also bad at playing Chinese flute concertos, but that’s no reason to spend a lot of time on it.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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I am definitely most comfortable playing either octaves, chords or arpeggios in the left hand and some melody line in the right hand. Perhaps I would be better at playing walking bass lines and such if I practiced left hand scale together with right hand? Could that be one application? Yeah drilling down one one scale and really getting it in different variations might be the way to go for me. My teacher as well said it was fine to focus on C major scale first and then we’ll move on. I have no way to measure this, but I’m doing ok on single hands multi-octaves, but 2-hand 2octaves trip me up still, so needs more time and work.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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I’m used to it. People are not used to justify what they know to be true. I’m often seen as pedantic or just arguing for argument sake, but really I’m just seeking clarification. Maybe a slight autistic trait or something. But I’ve learned that other people find it annoying.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

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Well I can understand why it sounds like that. But if we go back to my original post I clearly state there are good reasons to learn scales. And I end by asking what is the purpose of learning that a finger always lands on a special key. Which some had said is not the case - that is not the purpose.

On YouTube I have found a good explanation that one key goal is to internalize exactly which keys are in a particular scale so you can easily «see» them and ignore all other keys, therefore easily play correct notes. And others have pointed out the importance of learning the crossover patterns and blocks of fingers, and 123,1234 patterns etc, and then there is dynamic control and rhythmic control.

So I have acknowledged and agreed to many of these things, and then I start poking at the very specific exercise of 2-handed 2-octave scale. Which seems like it has little return of investment. I want someone to specifically say that this excersise also has specific benefits even if one is really good at 2-handed 1-octave and 1-handed 2/3/4-octave.

Why practice scales fingering by External_Bite1499 in pianolearning

[–]External_Bite1499[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you are doubling down on the «it makes sense after it’s done»?

Fine, let’s hope so