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>>71583030
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>>71583030
How do you do fellow Penist

What are your guys' practice routines?

>>71583030
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y01jIorpeA
>25 minutes
>so much damn rambling

>>71584894
I'm too lazy to practice nowadays. But the best method is to learn everything backwards, like perfect last 4 bars, then move onto last 8 bars etc. That way when you perform you get more confident as you go through the piece and usually the last part is harder than the rest anyway.

>>71584991
Anyone know any decent piano/music-theory channels? Preferably at an intermediate level

Anyone else enjoy doing technical excersizes more than learning songs most of the time? I like feeling like I'm improving, which learning songs doesn't usually give me. I'm talking specifically about leaning songs, not playing ones you already know

>>71585009
that seems odd

>tfw you've been doing Hannon exercises for a month and everyone tells you they're useless

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>tfw just found out I have to audition to get into my school's sound recording technology program

>>71585786
i mean the thing is you gotta put those technichal exercises toward something

no audience, even if its one person and that person is your own mother, is going to want to hear you whip through your arpeggios for 30 minutes, it isnt fun for them

bumping with some original work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FTC4dEsxBU

>>71585786
in the end you will find out that there is not such a thing as technical exercises. It's like just moving your mouth to learn a language.

>>71586093
I know. And I like playing what I already know, so I still spend most of my time practicing with actual songs. It's just not fun for me.

>>71586055
>sound recording technology

are you talking about Ithaca College? I'm a senior in that program right now

>>71586451
No, UMass Lowell. They have a good program though, I just didn't know I was gonna have to audition. I thought that was only for performance and stuff.

>>71586726
Weird, I've never heard of another program aside from IC's refer to it as sound recording technology haha

>>71586787
Yeah, I've been calling it audio engineering until my adviser corrected me

>>71586218
This is some seriously good work.

>>71586815
Its not original its from a video game

what's a good keyboard? I took piano lessons for 5 years and forgot most of it, will it come back with practice?

I'm interested in learning the piano but I have no experience. I played trombone for a while in school so I can read music for the most part, but being 19 is it too late to start? That and I'm worried about spending a large amount of money on a keyboard and then giving up/getting bored.

>>71587339
Nope. Not too late at all. It's pretty easy to pick up.

saving this thread because lel

Any MIDI-enabled keyboards that don't feel like ass? I play an upright and I hate the guts out of my Casio PX-100 even though it has hammers.

>>71589626
No. If you can't get a grand there's no point in playing piano.

>>71589626
http://www.kawaivpc.com/en/

prepare to drop ~2k

>>71589626
I use a Roland FP30, and I like the action. I also have a 40 year old Young Chang grand and I like the action on it and the FP30 pretty much equally, so I do at least have something to reference it to.

I don't really love the piano sounds on it ever since I started playing acoustic pianos but I haven't found any midi software that I like more (I've tried Pianoteq and a couple other things) so in terms of sound it seems okay.

>>71585786
nah, for me learning songs is the best way to improve. especially just improvising or playing around in a key; gives you a sense for what a key really feels like under your fingers, let's you speak in it a lot more clearly even when playing like classical pieces or whatever

>>71590321
On that note, can any anons suggest some good piano VSTs that are either pirate-able or cheap? As I said I tried Pianoteq and I don't really like it. Would love to try Ivory but it's expensive to buy physically and too huge to torrent.

Hey niggers I've been playing Saint Pepsi - enjoy yourself (michael jackson off the wall) as a piano accompaniment to vocals but I'm a bit lost because after the intro it gets really repetitive and i feel it sounds kinda boring. Any advice? Intro chords are:

Abmaj7
Eb/G
Fm7
Fm7/Bb

Then it repeats the following two chords for a while:
Gm7
Abmaj7

sometimes an Fm9/Bb is added also

But it just sounds so boring after the initial 4 intro chords. Maybe I'm just practicing it too often and it's sounding stale? I don't know how to proceed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zufMaufJZo
fav episode of mcpartland show with bill evans