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Questions tagged [self-learning]

For questions about the process of learning an instrument and musical theory without formal instruction.

Do not use this tag if you are simply self-learning and come across a question or issue you do not understand. Use this tag only for questions about self-learning.

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What do musicians mean when they say "learn music, not instruments"?

I started playing the piano about 2 months ago. Various people have told me several times to "try to focus on music more than the instrument", but I don't quite get the notion. It'd be great if any of you could elaborate it a bit.
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How to feel the music?

I am a deeply technical/mathematical person. I do enjoy understanding stuff around me and this curiosity was one of the reasons I started playing guitar few years ago: I wanted to understand how it works. I'm that kind of guy who asks the teacher a…
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How should a self-taught musician study and reach his goals?

I am a self-taught pianist. I have been playing piano for about 7 years. I can play all my major and melodic minor scales comfortably. I excelled in AP Music Theory in high school. My goals are to improve my piano technique, eventually compose…
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electric bass frets and tabs

Hi all I'm a newbie on bassing and I'm learning tabs now this tab G ------------------------------------ D ------------------5----------------- A --------2-5------------5----2------- E ---3-----------------------------3-- While I start with first…
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How long do you play these notes?

Here is an image of the notes in question, I've copied the specific part of the sheet music that is confusing me and made it in Illustrator because musicScore and NoteFlight are more headache than they are worth so apologies that it's a bit…
user61609
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Self study from nil

I'm going to start music lessons this summer, but I'd like to know whether I could learn something upfront. I'm a complete beginner and don't know what I could do? I installed gnu-solfege but don't know exactly what to do with it? What's something…
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Best method to learn all chords on piano

I have struggled to find a system to learn all chords .With maj, min, 7th. maj7th , 6ths and all the rest and then inversions of all these chords ,I have given up time and time again but I want to play what I like before I leave this planet (I am…
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Fretless vs. Fretted instruments for self-learning

I want to start learning an instrument but because I live far from my country I'm looking for self-study. I'm choosing between my national instruments (Iranian), which some like Oud or Kamancheh are fretless and some like Tar and Setar are…
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