I've always had a big passion to music but I've never had a chance to play or do much until now for complex life reason (trauma stuff). There are two things I want to focus on now: piano and singing. I want to eventually learn guitar but that will come later down the line.
For piano:
I started playing a few days ago via self teaching, I have no real experience with it before beyond occasionally fiddling with tunes from memory and playing them on apps and all that or people telling me I'm "gifted" for that and other reasons. But I've only just started sitting down and attempting to play piano now.
So far I don't have any real big issues: Although I am dyslexic and sheet music takes a bit to read, I still get it somewhat and don't need to look back after my hands know how to play it as they remember it fine. I have had no issues with playing two handed as I'm ambidextrous and extremely dexterous so I can play with both at the same time without a worry and have been doing so since day 1. Fingering needs improvement but that's been developing quite fast and is just a skill that seems to need time and effort put into it over anything else. My rhythm doesn't seem to be off, although there are pauses sometimes as I try to get my fingering right but once I get that it seems fine. Made my first song have jumps in it to practice moving around the keyboard a lot and accurately hitting the right keys in time and not been having too many issues there beyond fingering and again it's improving fast with practice so not too worried about that as it will develop better with time anyway.
However, stuff I do wanna know how to make better is making sheet music easier to read or faster to read or more convenient because that seems like it could be an important skill, it's also the thing holding me back the most when I am trying to learn a new song. Is there an easy way to get sheet music to be edited with stuff like colours or a line where the C keys are or something for faster reading for us dyslexic folk? Or is there anything that will just help to know or learn with reading sheet music? even eventually by sight if I can. Another issue I've noticed is that I have small hands (If I'm really stretching from thumb to little finger I can go from C to C) and sometimes struggle with chords or finding good positioning because of this and I'm unsure how to deal with this beyond shortening or editing the chords myself.
I'm also unsure if the way I'm learning is correct or if I'm developing bad habits I may not know about. The way I go about learning is I learn one hand, then the other, then put them together note by note in order and it comes out as them seeming to play separately but they aren't, it's together in order. So I'm not sure if this is correct or if it's better to learn to play the two tunes separately but both at the right pace as if two people are playing their own bit alone and understand it alone but it works with the other because the rhythm and pacing is correct (if that makes sense?). I've also just been getting songs I like from musescore or finding sheet music online and learning those or playing songs by memory/ear and experimenting with their key or chords in between learning actual songs so I'm wondering if there is a better and more specific way to learn that will help me learn faster and better habits overall? Also if you have any other advice it would be very appreciated to hear.
For singing:
I've always wanted to know how to sing but have been very quiet and mute for a lot of my life so my voice is very weak and lung capacity is pretty meh. I speak suuuper softly, my range is terrible and my control is also very bad. I want to know what I can do daily to improve these issues and where to even start singing because I don't even know the start of it. Is there a daily routine I can do to passively improve my voice over time?
I know some people will just advise talking more but I really don't have anyone to talk to often at all, and my throat and mouth get very tired after a short time singing so I can't do that for long. The music I want to eventually sing would be either rock stuff or very powerful emotional singing so I have a looong way to go and know it, but I'm willing to put in the time if it eventually gets me to where I want to be.
I am a girl so I am looking for that big range and higher end stuff too if that helps to know. I would really appreciate any relevant advice because this is something I am completely clueless on and would love to actually get it going because it brings me joy to do.
Thank you for reading if you did, I really do appreciate you taking your time to help and would love anything you would have to say about what I should be doing and where I should be heading.
Submitted April 10, 2020 at 07:58AM by Longleigrill https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/fydtwu/beginner_to_music_with_no_experience_wanting_to/?utm_source=ifttt