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Yup. Exams and everything.
you should've gone all the way through with it. i just finished grade 8 and i'm working towards my diplomacy right now.
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Wow, you're exactly like me! I took violin lessons when I was elementary, big flop since the teacher left. Piano also in elementary, and made it all the way to Grade 7.
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I know, you're right, but I'm so busy as of late, and don't really have the time to do so anymore. Anyways, piano is quite enjoyable for me, but it's just a hobby. I don't really want a diplomacy in music.
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LightningfistCal wrote:
I'm learning how to play rock guitar because I wanna be more flexible in our band. I'm already a drummer and backup vocalist, so learning the notes and chords for the guitar is a lot harder than I thought. It kinda contradicts the style I have for drumming, but I figure I'll still stick to learning it anyways.
I once thought the same thing when I tried guitar after years of flailing my arms behind the kit. Now I can play stuff like Master of Puppets and Hangar 18. 8D
It's really just a matter of getting down and practicing. Things like Guitar Pro also help loads for learning songs.
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I also did vocals for who knows how long, 6 years if I remember correctly.
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I definitely don't consider myself a good singer, but I may have to provide backing vocals for our band soon, which slightly worries me.
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Yeah, those high notes are a pain sometimes...
I definitely don't consider myself a good singer, but I may have to provide backing vocals for our band soon, which slightly worries me.
I definitely don't consider myself a good singer, but I may have to provide backing vocals for our band soon, which slightly worries me.
Yeah, they are such a pain as you said.
Good luck then if you have to provide backing vocals!
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I do play some guitar though. And I sing. I'd like to take singing classes but I'd have to learn to read sheet music and such before anyone will take me into their classes.
...thus I gave up on everything and thought "Maybe I'll start dancing."
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PandaPrinzessin wrote:
I'd love to get singing lessons but it's so darn expensive! My friend's dead set on forming a "band", which means I'll either have to sing or play my flute, neither of which I'm very confident about. I have zero confidence on my flute, even though I've been playing it for nearly nine years....
Ah I know what you mean. I think I paid...AUD$250 a year for singing lessons for 6 years and that's not counting Trumpet lessons. It is quite expensive but I learned quite a few techniques that I've been able to apply to the Trumpet as well.
Don't let you being not so confident about singing or playing the flute affect you wanting to be in a band. If you really want to need to work on is practise. In my school band, I still can't sustain high notes for a long time so I stuff up a few times but I keep on trying. You might stuff up a few times and get embarrassed but it's natural to make those mistakes. As long as you have fun, then that's all that matters.
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PandaPrinzessin wrote:
I'd love to get singing lessons but it's so darn expensive! My friend's dead set on forming a "band", which means I'll either have to sing or play my flute, neither of which I'm very confident about. I have zero confidence on my flute, even though I've been playing it for nearly nine years....
I'd love singing lessons as well. In my school, anyone who does music gets a choice to learn the piano, guitar or singing. It's great, the classes are a fiver once a week, so most of us do them. The only thing is, I'm doing guitar, so they won't let me do singing. =[
I'd say you'd be good at the flute, especially if you've been doing it for so long, so don't worry.
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papermario13689 wrote:
Interesting. The first instrument I learned was the violin, and the first instrument in my school's band that I played was clarinet.
O.O What the?! I learned the violin first, then I just started the clarinet last year for my school band.
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Just kidding. I played clarinet for grades 8 and 9 and switched to trumpet until graduation.
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ARE WE...SOMEHOW RELATED? CLONES PERHAPS?
Just kidding. I played clarinet for grades 8 and 9 and switched to trumpet until graduation.
Just kidding. I played clarinet for grades 8 and 9 and switched to trumpet until graduation.
There's a Grade 9? I thought it only went up to 8
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Ptapcc wrote:
The only problem I find with it is sustaining high notes for a long period of time, which my music teacher always comments on.
Don't worry; comes over time with practice and experience.
(Well, I don't play trumpet, so I don't know, but if it happened like that to me for every single wind instrument I've played, I'm sure it'll happen for the trumpet and you too.)
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Ptapcc wrote:
The only problem I find with it is sustaining high notes for a long period of time, which my music teacher always comments on.
Don't worry; comes over time with practice and experience.
(Well, I don't play trumpet, so I don't know, but if it happened like that to me for every single wind instrument I've played, I'm sure it'll happen for the trumpet and you too.)
Well, on a clarinet, the higher you go, you need thicker reeds. I use a 2 1/2 and 3s for my instrument. I can sustain a high G for a long time though, about like 15 or more seconds before I need to breath.
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Bad Player wrote:
Ptapcc wrote:
The only problem I find with it is sustaining high notes for a long period of time, which my music teacher always comments on.
Don't worry; comes over time with practice and experience.
(Well, I don't play trumpet, so I don't know, but if it happened like that to me for every single wind instrument I've played, I'm sure it'll happen for the trumpet and you too.)
Yeah. I just keep practising high notes and holding them all the time to help. Unfortunately, the Trumpet is an octave higher than all the other brass instruments in the family, meaning that you have to go pretty high.
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Ptapcc wrote:
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Ptapcc wrote:
The only problem I find with it is sustaining high notes for a long period of time, which my music teacher always comments on.
Don't worry; comes over time with practice and experience.
(Well, I don't play trumpet, so I don't know, but if it happened like that to me for every single wind instrument I've played, I'm sure it'll happen for the trumpet and you too.)
Yeah. I just keep practising high notes and holding them all the time to help. Unfortunately, the Trumpet is an octave higher than all the other brass instruments in the family, meaning that you have to go pretty high.
I play piccolo; don't talk to me about playing high notes.
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Violin third position kills you. Then there positions all the way up to eighth, so don't complain much. And unfortunately, my school band doesn't have flutes. :P
Guitar is so much nicer b/c the frets are there. Besides that, I don't see why one position should be so much more difficult. (I mean, I know it's annoying going up positions, but going up one fret or a few never made too much of a difference for me.) Anyway, nothing can come close to piccolo embrouchre. (...Except maybe fife embrouchre.)
So your band just has piccolos?
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Reiji wrote:
I always wanted to learn cello or violin, but apparently I'm too old to do that now. No one will give me lessons because "you must start at a young age cause you'll never learn it if you don't".
Forget them! You're never too old to learn an instrument.
Anyways, I've been playing viola for about four months now. I'm not very good, considering I'm still a beginner, but it's extremely fun. I've been hoping to find someone to teach me how to sing, but I haven't had any success yet. I've also been playing guitar for three years, but I suppose that's cheating considering how little I've been playing lately.
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The hard part was finding a teacher willing to take on an adult beginner, but the guy I found is awesome.
I'm super intimidated by the five year old in the schedule before me, though. I must get better than her!
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Hula_Maggey wrote:
I'm two weeks into violin lessons and I'm loving it so far, even though I'm sure the neighbors want to break in and kill me for the noises I'm subjecting them to. I haven't played music since piano lessons in second grade, so it's a pretty new and exciting experience. I really want to learn to do neat bluegrass fiddling stuff.
The hard part was finding a teacher willing to take on an adult beginner, but the guy I found is awesome.
I'm super intimidated by the five year old in the schedule before me, though. I must get better than her!
The hard part was finding a teacher willing to take on an adult beginner, but the guy I found is awesome.
I'm super intimidated by the five year old in the schedule before me, though. I must get better than her!
*Snickers* Kind of reminds me of my teacher. He teaches adults and kids like me. (I'm in middle school by the way.) And there are adults in our beginner class. I'm in Level Two though.
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