Dear fellow /mu/sicians; This is my current approach to practicing

>>74296936
I've started playing the piano after 10 years on the keyboard. I would like to know this as well.

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>>74296936
>Playing an instrument
>in 2017

Learn how to put together a song in a DAW. You can learn how to play instruments later. Honestly you don't even need to learn how to play an instrument. Hire people to play them for you.

>>74296936
If you're playing drums, then the best exercise is alternating between practicing your rudiments to a metronome increasing in tempo at intervals + grooving to a metronome + grooving without the metronome for feel

>>74296936
It's pretty affective, but you'll have to be pretty careful with the songs or the lessons you choose. You wouldn't play smoke on the water and hop on to thundersteel or something.

>>74297453
Yeah but you yourself wouldn't improve.

Yeah learning pieces is the fastest way to get better OP, just make sure you're doing it by ear. Also it's fine, even perhaps more efficient, to cherry pick little sections that you like here and there as opposed to whole songs. Once you've figured a melody or riff out or whatever, play it in every key, over every chord you can think of - turn it upside down, play it backwards, steal that motherfucker and make it more yours than it was ever the original composers. Then you will get good.

>>74297453
You're an idiot. Engineers/producers who don't have a clue how to play music are a joke in the industry.

>>74297453
i've already been playing for 7 years, just looking for outside advice on practice.

>not that anybody gives a shit