vogeltje wrote:Wow that's great!!! You're very talented and seem a famous metal player.
Famous is an exaggeration, although we became somewhat known around the Scottish metal scene. I think that both of these bands had potential and the people I played with were excellent musicians, but there was a general laziness and lack of motivation that stopped us from really moving beyond small local gigs. That's the case for many bands in the scene: the ones that do well are the ones that not only play decent music but also work hard and have a professional attitude.
vogeltje wrote:it would be nice. Can you improvise on the piano? I can't improvise at all or at least not good in my opinion, so i prefer to play the muisc that was composed.it would be great to hear your recordings in those languages.
Not very well; I'm still a relative beginner at the piano so for now my main focus is getting my technique and sight-reading up to scratch before I get into improvisation. I played keyboard for years as a teenager, but school music education is like school language education, and the keyboard curriculum (as opposed to piano) was just static chords with the left hand and single-note melodies with the right, so proper piano playing is a big step up. Most of my guitar study in recent months has been focused on improvisation, so I'm better at it on the guitar, although in a way it can be easier on piano because it's simpler to visualise chords and scales on the keyboard. Guitar has the advantage of movable shapes, but learning to use these shapes takes a very long time.
vogeltje wrote:The intonation on a string instrument is very difficult and I think that it's always difficult for the professional musicians as well, so Rhian is wrong, it won't be that you hit the right notes all the time, but it will be better yes. My teacher said that the fingers develop a muscle memory for the notes. but I understand your feeling about the hurt when it's too sharp or flat!!! I have that now as well with the vibrato which is technically really difficult in ym opinion. also the 3rd position because you must find those notes as well. I suppose it's very important to hear accurately the intonation and if you can't then you must chose a different instrument like the piano.
I agree. I've never played a non-fretted string instrument, and with guitar and keyboard I've never had to worry too much about intonation assuming the instrument is properly tuned and set up, so singing is a big change since I have to get the notes right. It's hard for me but it's definitely helping to develop my musical ear and I'm finding ear training a lot easier now that there's the kind of feedback loop where I'm producing the sounds as well as hearing them. I reckon playing an instrument without clear divisions between the notes (including voice) and learning to intonate is very beneficial to any musician. Maybe I'll record myself singing one of the classical pieces soon so you can hear how bad mine is
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