Joshua Walsh Tierney asked:


I want to learn how to be able to sing the right pitch reading music, so that I can sing any song as long as I have the sheet music. How can I train myself to do this? What I want to do is to be able to sing the individual parts of Mozart and Beethoven’s string quartets. I also just think that being able to sing scores accurately (if not very well) will help me to eventually be able to play an instrument, possibly violin. Thanks

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Steven asked:


I know the notes thanks to my music theory class, and I pretty much know how the rhythms go because I en playing violin for 8 years…

My private teacher always tells me “read! look ahead!” but it’s kinda tedious with two hands…especially with chords, and if I look ahead I forget what’s on the measure I am currently on

I can play it perfectly with one hand, but once I get two, it’s difficult, and I want to be able to sight read it, and I feel like if I just memorize the fingering so I don’t have to look it would ruin my skills for sight reading…

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weee asked:


I played guiatr for about 2 years. i really got somewhere on it. I play scales and everything and learning theory on it. so i was liek whoa i love this im gonna go leanr more in school.
I sign up and boom its gay as hell. i have to take 18 credit hours a semester and have like 9 classes 2 are normal and the rest are music.To Take Music Theroy 1 u have to take keybord harmony with it. and sight singing. Ok wtf? i wanted to major in guitar now i have to leanr piano? and voice? WTF? Ok i leanr some piano and i go to tackle this. start taking lessons at school and stuff.sign up for guitar and boom theres no such thing as electric guitar in college its all classical.now im stuck trying to learn how to read msuic on guitar. [[ITS USESS}} theres no point to it the same not is in like 5 other places on the guitar.Same pitch everything. Ok now i get a call from the music head at school. I cant be a music major unless im in a the band and go to a meeting at the school also.WTF theres
1. No guitars in the band,2. the only piano thing they have is stuff for people who have been playing piano there whole life.3.wtf
now i have to learn all this stuff just to major in one instrument? and forced into stuff when well i havent played piano my whole life or read music on guitar. i just want to compose not go thru all this shit. i feel like killing myself..
i mean come on. what if i played violin for 50 years? that wouldnt magicaly make me learn paino.
and again. TO BE IN TEH BAND YOU NEED TO PLAY IDK VIOLIN and all that stuff liek you been playing it for oever 12 years…
and i have to take all this at the same time. i cant take one of the other i have to take them side by side with my toher classes. about 18-22 credit hours and work and pratcie..
im still in teh AA stage i havnt even gone to the 4 year yet. im into harmonic and melodic death metal.like stratavious and children of bodom and stuff liek that.
i was interrested in composing for video games.

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Terra asked:


so ive played the violin for.. 11 years? 12 maybe. lol a while. anyways im pretty good but my city’s orchestra is taking on new members in a couple months and i would like to try out. the thing is i havent played for the last 2-3 months and im rusty. i could use some work on my technique anyways. i need to work on bow control, overall tone, vibrato, and sight reading. i could probably fine tune more, but i cant think of anything else)
im willing to practice 2-3 hours a day. maybe more. (i’ll split it up so that its not 3 hours straight) but what should i do during my practice sessions? i cant afford lessons right now. i have some sheet music and a book of exercises. so do you have any advice?

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oceanblue asked:


If you have auditioned for a Symphony Orchestra, please tell me what it was like! What music did you have to play? Did you have to sight-read and was that hard? Were you nervous, did you make it in? Are there any tips or pointers you could give me to help with a symphony audition?

I play violin …

Thanks!
I’ve played for 18 years and was in my university symphony …

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