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i stopped taking piano lessons when i was like 12, so it takes me a really long time to actually learn how to play a song using sheet music, but i do still know all the major and minor chords. Ultimate Guitar has an app and website with the chords to pretty much every single song ever. presuming someone's also singing along, it's super easy to fudge sounding like u can fr play the piano. makes you feel musical and spontaneous even if you lack the discipline to practice an instrument!
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and ask any guitar friends to teach you basic chords. I learnt guitar by having my dad teach me some basic chords, then I learnt the entire The Kooks first record through tabs, and then Laura Marling’s Alas I Cannot Swim. And from that I basically learnt all the chords you need, and to finger pick and strum in different patterns. If something was a little more complicated id look up YouTube videos of people playing stuff to see what their hands were doing. I learnt how to play covers on piano purely from YouTube tutorials. And I’m literally a musician! its maybe not like the way to learn “properly” but it is the way that worked for me! I’ve linked Ultimate Guitar tabs website here which is where I still get my tabs for covers from 🤘🏼
Apr 22, 2024
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I was in your same position when I was younger & decided to take lessons: friend, it completely made me hate the idea of playing guitar. I wanted to rock and roll but they were having me learn hot cross buns. One day I put my guitar into its case and slid it back under my bed where it stayed for years.
I only took it out again after some friends and I jokingly created a band, ironically.
At that point there was no taskmaster other than my whimsy, so I learned what a power chord was and went bananas. With every goofy punk song we wrote, it seemed like I’d learn a new technique or chord to utilize and it was fun and exciting.
After awhile I learned about tablature and how many people would notate the songs I loved, and so I used those to pick up new progressions and such. It was helpful because every now and again a song would deploy something I had never tried, but it was easy to learn when motivated by the song, ya know?
Anyhow, that’s my two cents.
Apr 22, 2024
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i stay up late a lot of the time for no reason other than to keep the doors of the day open to potential, but i’ve started taking melatonin gummies and magnesium (also preferably gunmies) at like 10pm and just putting myself to bed and it actually rocks. it does not make me feel like i wasted my night the way i feared it would and my future self is always happy i did it
if the m&m gummies don’t cut it i also recommend a weighted blanket and some background noise (i like podcasts about things that are only marginally interesting to me. last night i learned about the economics of bubble tea idk)
Sep 28, 2024
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gotta keep the lungs guessing….
Apr 9, 2024
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very scary but essential if we ever want to break free of the prison of dating apps….. can’t keep sitting on tinder while all the hotties pass you by….. step 2 is saying something to them but we r working our way up to that
May 11, 2024