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KeyPiano asked:

A quick lesson how to easier recognize major or minor chords and their inversions.

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Marilyn asked:


So I play the violin, i’ve been playing for about a year and a half. I’m not sure what level you’re supposed to be on, if this is good or bad, but I’m on Suzuki book 5, i just finished playing borowski’s adoration..idk if you’ve heard it but its a beautiful piece… anyways I’m in a youth orchestra in my area that hasn’t started rehearsal yet, but to be in that orchestra it’s required that i be in my school’s music program. I go to a small private school with A LOT of really good musicians, so we’re playing things like Haydn (the photocopier cut off the name..i should probably know it hahah) that’s waaaay beyond me because i’ve never played in an orchestra. i can sight read pretty well but I can’t stay along with the rest of the orchestra. We had our first rehearsal last week and it was terrible for me because i’ve never played with such a big group. i was barely playing any notes i was so lost….
So what do you think i should do? i can’t really quit because the conductor rarely lets people that quit back in the next year and because i need to play in my school orchestra to be in my youth orchestra. If i stay, will i get better and able to stay along with the rest of them? how long do you think getting better and more used to orchestra will take?

thank you so much!!! i’ve been freaking out about this all week…

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J. asked:


Do you think I could get decent enough to play piano/keyboards in the band I’m in. Right now I’m rhythm guitarist, but our drummer really wants to play guitar on some songs so I’d jut play piano on those. I had about 3 months lessons at a conservatory, can read music (not well, mostly just read to learn melodies and key signatures, can’t really sight read and forget bass clef.

Our style is rock/progressive rock/funk/ anything we feel like, so I’m not talking anything complex like jazz improv or classical recitations, just decent enough to play in a band. I know how to form some chords already and can play half of the major scales in the circle of 5ths. Do you think I could be decent enough by september, when we’re all gonna be rooming in the same house at college together? Thanks
Yes, I do know the fingerings and can play two octaves at a time hands together, understand how to form major chords, etc. Yes I do know the difference between major and minor. Don’t ask questions with assumptions built into them to feed your own musical ego
I’ve been playing guitar 10 years, obviously I would pick most of that up.

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sesameseed77 asked:

More note reading practice. Check out my book “The Secrets of Sight Reading Piano Music” at Patternpiano.com

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