magma wrote:It's amazing how you just *make* time... you can get a keyboard with a decent enough piano on it for a couple of hundred quid second hand, or even free if you know where to look. Once it's in the house, you won't worry about finding time... they just sort of find time for you.
And you don't need to be able to break out the Mendelssohn to have the best time of your life either... I know I sound like an advert for Boosey & Hawkes or something, but serious... even just playing Chopsticks right for the first time will give you a serious buzz. Sometimes I just sit around with my Moog playing really shit acid basslines... it's fucking awesome.
You can get them for a couple of hundred quid new too. And yes, time can be made.
And where should I look to get one free my dear.
Yeah, but if you want to learn piano properly (rather than synths/keyboards), you'll want one with properly weighted keys etc... I wouldn't get a cheapy keyboard if you want to learn classical styles.
I'm not sure about in Belgium, but in the UK we have "Freecycle" groups online where people advertise things they'd otherwise be throwing away... pianos are quite common things to come up as people often can't move them to their new flat or something. Worth a Google for a local one and keeping an eye on it.... I've had 2 harmonicas, a hatstand and a telly off our local one!
Sounds pretty cool, will give it a Google myself later.
Did you ever get round to learning the harmonicas?
My dad just gave me an old minor one and im teaching myself.
Im planing on buying a nice new one that has a key changer.
magma wrote:It's amazing how you just *make* time... you can get a keyboard with a decent enough piano on it for a couple of hundred quid second hand, or even free if you know where to look. Once it's in the house, you won't worry about finding time... they just sort of find time for you.
And you don't need to be able to break out the Mendelssohn to have the best time of your life either... I know I sound like an advert for Boosey & Hawkes or something, but serious... even just playing Chopsticks right for the first time will give you a serious buzz. Sometimes I just sit around with my Moog playing really shit acid basslines... it's fucking awesome.
You can get them for a couple of hundred quid new too. And yes, time can be made.
And where should I look to get one free my dear.
Yeah, but if you want to learn piano properly (rather than synths/keyboards), you'll want one with properly weighted keys etc... I wouldn't get a cheapy keyboard if you want to learn classical styles.
I'm not sure about in Belgium, but in the UK we have "Freecycle" groups online where people advertise things they'd otherwise be throwing away... pianos are quite common things to come up as people often can't move them to their new flat or something. Worth a Google for a local one and keeping an eye on it.... I've had 2 harmonicas, a hatstand and a telly off our local one!
Sounds pretty cool, will give it a Google myself later.
Did you ever get round to learning the harmonicas?
My dad just gave me an old minor one and im teaching myself.
Im planing on buying a nice new one that has a key changer.
I can play a few Dylan tunes and stuff (would like to get a rack actually, so I can play with guitar), but I've never been able to bend the notes well enough for proper Blues.... my Dad can play properly, it's a hell of a sound... puts me to shame when he picks one of mine up!
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magma wrote:It's amazing how you just *make* time... you can get a keyboard with a decent enough piano on it for a couple of hundred quid second hand, or even free if you know where to look. Once it's in the house, you won't worry about finding time... they just sort of find time for you.
And you don't need to be able to break out the Mendelssohn to have the best time of your life either... I know I sound like an advert for Boosey & Hawkes or something, but serious... even just playing Chopsticks right for the first time will give you a serious buzz. Sometimes I just sit around with my Moog playing really shit acid basslines... it's fucking awesome.
You can get them for a couple of hundred quid new too. And yes, time can be made.
And where should I look to get one free my dear.
Yeah, but if you want to learn piano properly (rather than synths/keyboards), you'll want one with properly weighted keys etc... I wouldn't get a cheapy keyboard if you want to learn classical styles.
I'm not sure about in Belgium, but in the UK we have "Freecycle" groups online where people advertise things they'd otherwise be throwing away... pianos are quite common things to come up as people often can't move them to their new flat or something. Worth a Google for a local one and keeping an eye on it.... I've had 2 harmonicas, a hatstand and a telly off our local one!
Sounds pretty cool, will give it a Google myself later.
Did you ever get round to learning the harmonicas?
My dad just gave me an old minor one and im teaching myself.
Im planing on buying a nice new one that has a key changer.
I can play a few Dylan tunes and stuff (would like to get a rack actually, so I can play with guitar), but I've never been able to bend the notes well enough for proper Blues.... my Dad can play properly, it's a hell of a sound... puts me to shame when he picks one of mine up!
That sounds quite complicated playing it with the guitar!
My dad was trying to teach me how to do little fancy things on it but I wouldn't say hes good enough to put me to shame
I play cello to about grade 7 standard (dropped since I stopped practicing so much :[), piano to grade 4, bit of double bass (comes with the cello) and can strum out some rhythm guitar.
I do quite a bit of freelance work with my cello seeing as you don't get many cellists with 4 years band and studio experience though I'm focusing on getting vocals released at the moment
Love playing instruments, my cello especially is one of the most calming things to play after a stressy day
That's my twin brother's bass jam from about five years ago. He also plays saxaphone, guzheng and a few others. I got a guitar, erhu, keyboard but these days mainly stick to 'composing' electronic shite
Well worth learning an instrument though! Gives ya amples of transferable skills, along with the skill of being able to teach yourself stuff
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