Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.
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Preach.
+1. No easy feat, that.
Can you teach me to do this?
(I have no training or abilities
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Actually in seriousness, how would you people recommend getting proficient with the keyboard/piano as a relative beginner? Lessons? Videos? This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. I can make myself some pleasing ambient music and go on feel which is fine but I'd like to expand the horizons.
I mean where would the best place to start (and continue) be?
If you've already got a midi keyboard then Yousician could be a place to start..
https://yousician.com/
I sure hope not, or we'd all be a bunch of failures!
I imagine most of us simply have a passion and love for creating music and happily do so with no expectation of financial gain. That being said, I think many of us would be thrilled to have some of our work heard (and hopefully appreciated) by a larger audience, and being rewarded financially, even modestly, would be a cool bonus for many of us.
I made a few bucks playing guitar in a cover band back in the day, and I did feel as though I had achieved a certain level of relative "success". Someone was paying me to play guitar, and that was a pretty cool accomplishment for me. Was never really a goal, but was a nice sense of accomplishment nonetheless.
Those who have shared their "success stories" above would likely be making music anyway, but a little recognition whether in monetary form or otherwise is a good feeling and something to be proud of.
I found this forum, a lovable bunch of crazeeeey's.
@Redo1 and @AndyPlankton : You can get the Lang Lang piano method on iPad.
Alternatively, if you're a complete beginner I highly recommend "The Piano Handbook" and" The Piano Workbook" by Carl Humphries.They both include cd's so you can correct your mistakes. Buy them together..
I enjoy music much more now that i stopped banking on making it or working in it. I worked for years in studios, on music i thought was crap because i would grab whatever mixing job or producing job i could. Then i would drive home in silence and not want to listen to music. Once i got a "real job" i make whatever music i want to and enjoy the hell out of it. I meat a jazzy singer girl and get inspired and do 3-4 jazz tunes, meet a shoegazy guitarist and do that. Etc.
Joy.
@Telstar5 , thank you for the recommendations. Did not know about the Lang Lang app, so will download that and check out the handbooks. Would you still recommend one on one in person lessons though? Or can I get there without lessons?
Get lessons. But make sure you get the right teacher. One who can teach both classical and jazz would be best. Oh and be prepared to practice a lot.
Just got into it a year ago, total joy - so much I've learned, yet to learn - and the community is wonderful. I've done a bunch of manual writing, beta testing, and strategizing for developers/companies, which brings me closer to their instruments, lives, and aspirations, which is important to me personally, not to mention helping to learn the musical ecosystem. Between that and my wife and daughters, only wish I"d been able to start earlier.
There's always some bullshittery in these types of threads, but this one takes the whole cake....
Challenge Accepted.
@Redo1 : I'm not sure ,beingthat Ihave the Lang Lang app but haven't used it yet. Lots of videos etc. there though. I'd start w the two Humphroes books.. Also "Pianogroove" online piano school for jazz as well as Brendan Lowe's "Jazz Piano School".
But to start, either the Humohries, Lang Lang or both.
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Good work
You just kicked off a complete nostalgia that I had forgotten about, I played Womad in 90-something (was squeegee-ing my third eye so not the most clear memory). Played Glastonbury too, but hardly any main stage! To be honest there's so many stages and things there that it's hardly a big deal.
A never 'fessed that or anything else 'cause it all happened long before iOS was a glint in the milkman's eye...
In all seriousness, I haz a big admire. Awesome.
Just remember....each failed attempt is a valid reason to eat another
I've been a pro musician for decades, mainly as a drummer. Always played some woodwinds and keys on the side. Cue 2005 and a get a call from a dancer I'd worked with saying she needed a musician for a new dance class she was running. I say sure and show up with some winds and a hand drum. Then later added a small keyboard, then added an old iBook a friend had given me so I could run some loops. But trying to find the cursor while playing a hand drum was a tad tedious...
Then, when deciding upon what sort of hardware looper to buy I got the idea of looking into the iOS thing. Started with Loopy on an iPad3 (still use it) and an iPod Touch4 and went from there. Now using the 3 and an Air, seriously looking to large Pro very soon.
The success part? I'm still doing this gig (with the same instructor) over ten years later, and I get paid for it. And it's contemporary dance, so I'm not playing stuck Blue Danube for classical ballet; I get to improvise every time and create some often wild stuff. So much so that when this same instructor saw me at one of my drum kit gigs she joked "oh that's right, you play normal music as well." Lol. I consider myself very lucky to have this gig, and to have had it for so long. Oh, and one of the big attractions of the iOS environment is the miniaturization aspect, because I get to most of my gigs using bike and trailer, and so light weight is the ideal.
I had a snippet of a song played in an episode of MTV's House of Style back in the day, and appeared on a compilation with Marcy Playground just before they became an official one-hit (or was it 2?) wonder. For a while, I was much bigger in Eastern Europe* and the Andromeda galaxy...
Besides all the music I produced for my animated series 'Stone Trek' (which led to a little worldwide recognition in general), I also produced some music that was used in a series of kids CD-ROM games when I worked for Ringling Multimedia Corporation, as well as a few one-offs for other projects; and a local radio show played one of my GB-based parody tunes on the air one evening...
Nothing big-time, just little milestones I'm content with!