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Topic: improving or just waste of time?  (Read 1704 times)

Offline olivialeonie

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improving or just waste of time?
on: January 21, 2017, 07:49:09 PM
Hi!

I have thought a lot about what I can do when I don’t have access to a piano, like when my school is locked or I am sick at home. So I came to think about all the unused sheet music that is laying around in my room, so I thought about that I maybe just can look at them , write down the note names, and analyze the accords that are used in the piece. But is that something productive or just simple waste of time! I would like to have your opinion  ;D
or do you maybe have other method that don't involve a piano? i welcome any suggestion :)

Thanks for answering :)

(Please don’t mind my bad English, it is my third language)

Offline dcstudio

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Re: improving or just waste of time?
Reply #1 on: January 21, 2017, 07:58:23 PM
Hi!

I have thought a lot about what I can do when I don’t have access to a piano, like when my school is locked or I am sick at home. So I came to think about all the unused sheet music that is laying around in my room, so I thought about that I maybe just can look at them , write down the note names, and analyze the accords that are used in the piece. But is that something productive or just simple waste of time! I would like to have your opinion  ;D
or do you maybe have other method that don't involve a piano? i welcome any suggestion :)

Thanks for answering :)

(Please don’t mind my bad English, it is my third language)


Not a waste of time at all...in fact it's excellent.  It won't feel like it's helping at first but someday you will know without a doubt that it did.

At university I felt so small as a player so I concentrated on getting great grades in theory, Music history, and the like.  I spent hours at harmonic analysis every day and I was always the first one done with my theory tests. Now because of that I know the chord progression at a glance. 

Offline j_tour

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Re: improving or just waste of time?
Reply #2 on: January 21, 2017, 10:18:21 PM
I've felt the same way many times in my life it seems.  I think you're doing the right thing -- well, it's what I would do if I didn't have access to my instrument, namely, create a plan and execute it.  Learn to sight-sing random intervals:  do one bar twice a day when you brush and floss.  Repeat for a few months. 

You can substitute anything you want, or whatever -- maybe playing one ascending scale on guitar, or doing a few pushups.  Or not smoking that extra bowl of pipe tobacco. 

If it were me, I'd put the extra time into being a better guitar player, or a better singer/composer, but the possibilities are sort of up to you.

Wow, that was preachy, but that's sort of my deal now is like doing stuff and I don't know, I'm old so that's apparently what people with a '4' in front of their ages do.
My name is Nellie, and I take pride in helping protect the children of my community through active leadership roles in my local church and in the Boy Scouts of America.  Bad word make me sad.
 

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