Instrument you'd like to learn how to play.

[JakeBequette]

That's a method of violin teaching that's very popular lately. Instead of learning to read music, you learn to play by ear. Some people find it easier, but a lot of music teachers hate it because it can make it harder to go on to more advanced stuff. I guess, I don't play the violin.

Learn to play by ear? That's slacker talk.

I'm proud that I can read music, and pretty well too, I can sit down at a lot of new things and play them "ok".​

 

[duroc5088]

well the BANJO is my favorite instrument of all times and I always thought that the guys that played it were incredibly talented.

but that's coming from a simple country boy. so take it as you will....

Dirk

 

[antdak]

I'd really like to learn the bagpipes!! I have allways liked thier mutli dementional sound.

 

[NedNickerson]

A few years ago, I attended a performance of a Widor symphony given in a church hall. The organist played the church organ which was an enormous pipe organ that curved around him with all the stops and pedals and pipes, etc... The sound was incredible against the orchestra and I remember actually trembling with excitement... It must be amazing to know how to play an instrument like a classical pipe organ...

 

[screwnutty]

hmmm Guitar or the harmonica!

sure the campfire sing along with Guitar is cool....but how many ppl can play the Harmonica anymore?

 

[blackbeltninja]

I play guitar and piano, both self-taught, although I could definitely be better at both.

What I'm really hankering for at the moment is to learn how to play the drums. Stupid noise pollution by-laws.

-d-

 

[teadrinker]

I've already had a go at learning the instruments I like... but given my druthers I'd like to spend more time learning the harpsichord. Oh, but to be able to play Bach...

-T.

 

[hunky]

The drums. I always loved it.

 

[Aussieguy01]

I would love to learn how to play a violin or a harp , then i could do some serenading!

 

[sushi_wonderland]

i play the piano and the flute and would like to learn to play the cello someday.

 

[antdak]

If we keep going like this, we will soon have our own orchestra!! The JUB Orchestra!!

 

[Elwood]

I have always wanted to learn how to play the piano. I think it is just a magical instrument, I could sit and listen to someone play the piano for hours. For me the piano can bring out all the emotions from happy to sad!!

 

[pjlikesporn]

I play the piano and I love it, but I have always wanted to learn to play the cello. On the other hand, it's not so much an instrument you can play by itself--really needs a few other strings or a piano or an orchestra to back it up.

 

[bj____]

Piano or Violin. I've always loved both of these instruments, they make me feel at peace.

 

[RenaissanceMan]

Learn to play by ear? That's slacker talk.

Well the ear-training part of it is good...though a violinist usually has to train his ear anyway. A pianist has the sad fate of possibly never really developing his ear very well (unless he/she consciously does).

For me the piano can bring out all the emotions from happy to sad!!

Agreed. For me it's also the most varied, expressive instrument...(in my not-trying-to-be-humble opinion) it has a lot more range in style, mood and "colour" than any other instrument.

I play the piano, but I've as a second instrument I'd probably choose the violin. I started when I was young and gave up too soon. Now I partly regret it, though I'm glad at least this way I tried the piano instead. But by now I'd never really consider learning...unless I had more hours in a day...I'd really rather concentrate on the piano for now, there's enough work there.

 

[slobone]

It's true that piano teachers often fail to pay any attention to ear training. The result is a lot of amateur pianists whose attention is focused on the sheet music and not the sounds coming out of the piano.

I struggled with my last teacher because I thought memorization of a piece should be the first step in learning it, not the last step as it usually is. She had a different point of view because she made her spending money playing classical "selections" in a café where memorization was an impossibility because of the number of pieces she had to get through in an evening.

I think all classical musicians should be trained to improvise at some point, maybe just making up variations for famous classical tunes. Might be a quicker path to real musical understanding.

 

[dolphwasser]

I've always wanted to learn the piano, and the guitar, but didn't do either one. Now I to old, I'm as old as dirt!!!!!!

I share your dirt, for I, too, am old.

I also share your unfulfilled desire to play the piano.

I'm jealous of children in their single-digit years that can play so well.

I'm jealous of wrinkled, old prunes on 2 legs that can play.

And I'm jealous of every damn one of you in between, too.

Sigh!

 

[just_mills]

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