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Re: Total Beginner

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-12-21 19:20

I had Peter Wastall's "Learn as you play" book, about one unit every week. No CD. When I failed to grasp the rhythm or the tune, I hacked the notes into Lilypond which produces - besides a very decent score sheet - a midi file. As a side-effect you learn the note names as you read and type them in. Sight-reading will improve. Not dramatically, but sustainable.

Relax from sheet music by playing by ear - the usual traditionals, maybe even an opera aria or a radio tune. You will develop a sense what pitch to expect when pressing this and that key. So once you have the melody in your ear, playing will become a lot easier.

So...two tunes a week in the beginning. One from a sheet, the other one "ad lib", even if it's only a short passage. Warm up with scales or trichords. You'll constantly stumble over them later, and it's good to have them in your fingers.

Keep practicing regularly. Better 15 minutes each day than two hours on sundays only. And don't forget: It's meant to be fun.

--
Ben

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