So I’ve been in band, playing the trombone, for 7 years. Recently I’ve decided I want to learn a lot of instruments. I’ve been practicing guitar for 3 months and have a keyboard in my room. But I’m unsure how to balance all of these instruments.
I’m starting to get really good at Trombone, so I wanna practice that. Especially since I have all district band coming up. And I wanna learn improv on trombone.
I’ve been told piano will help a lot with understanding music and playing music, but I’m unsure what to practice. I’ve messed around in piano/keyboard, but not much.
Guitar has been fun, but it’s still in its early stages of just learning songs and practicing fundamentals.
And those are the instruments I have now. I plan on being able to play: Trombone, Guitar, Bass, piano, drum set, and maybe trumpet. And then some other string instruments, like a ukulele.
My goal is to be able to make music on my own, but I’m just unsure how I would keep up practicing 5+ instruments a day. And I want to be an impressive player on each instrument, not just be able to do the basic things. I guess to put it, I want to master 5 instruments. But the definition of master is weird, does that mean get good at all types of styles on an instrument? I just don’t know.
For every one of those instruments, i’d want to be confident enough to perform in front of an audience, which I already have with trombone.
So am I asking for too much? Or is there a better way to do this?
Submitted June 30, 2023 at 08:44PM by Low_Setting_5469 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/14nfx1i/being_a_multiinstrumentalist/?utm_source=ifttt