Should I give in to my decade-long dream and buy a Theremin?

>>74546538
What do you think you will gain out of this experience?

>pick up girls?
Definitely not
>get a gig?
Definitely not
>gain a mentally stimulating skill?
Only if you practice an hour a day for a full year
>contribute to a cover of the Beach Boys' hit "Good Vibrations"?
It's possible

>>74546538
looks p. tricky to master. follow your heart
imo nobody's ever really made them look like less than a novelty

>>74546593
greater* than a novelty, my bad. you get the idea

>>74546570
Not OP, but is an hour a day really enough to learn how to play an instrument like the theremin? I've never played one, but it seems like a very difficult instrument to play.

>>74546619
An hour a day is enough time to learn how to do anything desu; it would be unrealistic to spend more than that on a hobby. However you really do have to keep it up for at least a year if you want to get to a level of playing in public. For the theremin, since intonation is so difficult, it might take a month until you can play the major scale in tune, but eventually muscle memory will get you there

>>74546570
>pick up girls
>get a gig
Superficial aspirations that don't concern me.

>gain a mentally stimulating skill
Yes

>>74546570
>Beach Boys' hit "Good Vibrations"?
That has no Theremin in it.

I'd hope to play The Swan by Saint-Saens or Schubert's Ave Maria

>>74546593
There are a few serious Thereminists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mvO2kIPvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFsgkNmMg0

>>74546538
If you do, get one of the Moogs that double as a midi controller. Lots of unexplored musical territory to be had:
http://cdm.link/2014/01/making-theremin-digital-moog-theremini-works-midi-brings/

>>74546538
if you're gonna latch onto a niche instrument let it be a good one OP. buy something that sounds great like a marimba or a silly toy flute

>>74546726
it does have a theremin in it, only in the chorus and it's like three phrases tho

>>74546619
it really isn't, sure you're gonna progress, but at a snail's pace. 2 to 3 is what's gonna really push you forward, I do 5 but then again I'm a NEET

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>>74546872
It's a Tannerin

Brian Wilson's drug-addled mind remembered it wrong which added to the confusion

Not unless you wanna go to Gitmo rueski