Learning an Instrument
Below are our 19 articles in the learning an instrument' category:
The most difficult and discouraging time you’ll encounter when learning an instrument happens right at the beginning. There’s so much to take in that...
A new instrument can be a serious investment of money, and probably not one you want to make when you're starting out, especially if it's for your...
You've decided what instrument you want to play. Now looking around, you're presented with a range of choices, from cheap to far beyond your wallet....
To be a DJ, you not only have to love music, you have to know music, a wide range of music and have the kind of ear for how it goes together. More...
It's all about the lips. Beyond talking or eating, most of us rarely think about our lips, but if you're going to play a brass instrument, you'll be...
Since man first stamped on the earth or clapped his hands, making rhythm has been a part of life. Rhythm is there in all the music we hear, whether...
The electric bass guitar is a relatively new instrument, one that came into existence to support the louder electric guitar, and which first found...
It's quite simple to learn to play the guitar. Mastering it, and becoming a good guitarist, is something that can take years, however, requiring...
The strings - violin, viola and cello - share several common traits. All have four strings, tuned with the same intervals between them, and are...
There are plenty of pluses about playing the harmonica (or mouth organ or mouth harp – it goes by several different names). It’s very small and...
Go back a century or two, and it seemed that many people (especially girls) learnt piano. It was one of those skills that rounded out an education....
Clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, oboe, English horn…they're vastly different instruments, but have one thing in common; they're all part of the woodwind...
Many people find music scores daunting, unable to decipher the dots on a page. But music is actually a fairly simple language, easy to master. And...
Buying an instrument is just the first step. Now you own it, you have to look after it. Depending on the instrument, that could mean doing quite a...
Learning an instrument is a slow, ongoing process, especially in the early stages when you feel like you're all fingers and thumbs. At times, too, it...
There's an old joke that goes "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, practice, practice." The thing is that there's plenty of truth in it....
These days most CDs you hear have programming of some kind on them. That could consist of beats and/or sounds created on computer for the song. You...
Already playing one instrument gives you a big advantage when you start learning another. You already have a solid grasp of music and music theory...
If you already play one instrument but want to learn something different – going from piano to flute' say – you enter with some distinct advantages....
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