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Quote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:31:02 PMThis thread is for musicians to post there songs and accomplishments as well as just discuss music. enjoy My son plays the keyboards in my church's Youth Band, and he also subbed for the regular adult Worship Band. He has never had formal lessons. My wife and I picked up an old Yamaha keyboard as a hand-me-down from friends at church. Joshua just started playing, and appears to be a natural (so says our Music Director who used to be in a professional music group). I bought him a new Yamaha keyboard for Christmas since the old one did not have a power chord and needed 6 D batteries every couple of weeks.Yeah, I'm proud of my kid. What can I say? I love my family!
How old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?
Quote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.
Quote from: YourMathTeacher on December 29, 2012, 11:40:15 AMQuote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.Sounds like me until I started taking lessons. I would only ever play songs by ear until I started piano lessons. I still prefer playing songs by ear though.
Quote from: cookie monster on December 29, 2012, 05:24:48 PMQuote from: CJSports on December 29, 2012, 12:36:54 PMQuote from: YourMathTeacher on December 29, 2012, 11:40:15 AMQuote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.Sounds like me until I started taking lessons. I would only ever play songs by ear until I started piano lessons. I still prefer playing songs by ear though.When I was in Africa, one of the churches had a piano player that did not know how to read music. So as they were beginning the song he would fiddle around with the keyboard until he found the key, then he would progressively get bigger until by the end of the song he was just jamming out and covering around 4 octaves! It was amazing considering he had never taken a lesson in his life! we (my dad and I) actually invited him over to our house to teach him some theory and how to read chords, he then came back every day to just play our keyboard with the music sheets we had laying around. He was 15 or 16.Sweet! I'd like to go to South Africa, I've heard it's kindOf dangerous though. I played the drums for about a year.. Took lessons from a secular drum teacher and the week before my surgery he was like 15 minutes late (my lesson was 30 minutes) so I left. Then I got a text from him that day asking if I was going to make it to drum lessons.. Needless to say, I was extremely mad and I am now very picky about who I want to use as a teacher because I WILL NOT go back to him again. So I'm gonna start back up next summer. I may just buy DVD's and use those to teach me. There's a Christian guy who makes them and teaches you how to play Christian songs, so I'll probably go with that route. I love the drums though. They aren't necessarily a musical instrument, but they're close. I'd like to learn to play guitar like Johnny cash. He plays it like a stand up bass and guitar mixed.
Quote from: CJSports on December 29, 2012, 12:36:54 PMQuote from: YourMathTeacher on December 29, 2012, 11:40:15 AMQuote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.Sounds like me until I started taking lessons. I would only ever play songs by ear until I started piano lessons. I still prefer playing songs by ear though.When I was in Africa, one of the churches had a piano player that did not know how to read music. So as they were beginning the song he would fiddle around with the keyboard until he found the key, then he would progressively get bigger until by the end of the song he was just jamming out and covering around 4 octaves! It was amazing considering he had never taken a lesson in his life! we (my dad and I) actually invited him over to our house to teach him some theory and how to read chords, he then came back every day to just play our keyboard with the music sheets we had laying around. He was 15 or 16.
Quote from: cookie monster on December 29, 2012, 11:15:42 PMQuote from: The Music Maker on December 29, 2012, 07:54:32 PMQuote from: cookie monster on December 29, 2012, 05:24:48 PMQuote from: CJSports on December 29, 2012, 12:36:54 PMQuote from: YourMathTeacher on December 29, 2012, 11:40:15 AMQuote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.Sounds like me until I started taking lessons. I would only ever play songs by ear until I started piano lessons. I still prefer playing songs by ear though.When I was in Africa, one of the churches had a piano player that did not know how to read music. So as they were beginning the song he would fiddle around with the keyboard until he found the key, then he would progressively get bigger until by the end of the song he was just jamming out and covering around 4 octaves! It was amazing considering he had never taken a lesson in his life! we (my dad and I) actually invited him over to our house to teach him some theory and how to read chords, he then came back every day to just play our keyboard with the music sheets we had laying around. He was 15 or 16.Sweet! I'd like to go to South Africa, I've heard it's kindOf dangerous though. I played the drums for about a year.. Took lessons from a secular drum teacher and the week before my surgery he was like 15 minutes late (my lesson was 30 minutes) so I left. Then I got a text from him that day asking if I was going to make it to drum lessons.. Needless to say, I was extremely mad and I am now very picky about who I want to use as a teacher because I WILL NOT go back to him again. So I'm gonna start back up next summer. I may just buy DVD's and use those to teach me. There's a Christian guy who makes them and teaches you how to play Christian songs, so I'll probably go with that route. I love the drums though. They aren't necessarily a musical instrument, but they're close. I'd like to learn to play guitar like Johnny cash. He plays it like a stand up bass and guitar mixed.I would can drums a musical instrument. In Africa if there was no beat, there was no music. They could not have music without beat so for most of there church services (almost all of them we went to except the one I mentioned earlier) there would just be a group of people playing a drum beat, the way they used those drums was awesome!.Oh! Like a drum circle with Djembe's!? African music is pretty cool
Quote from: The Music Maker on December 29, 2012, 07:54:32 PMQuote from: cookie monster on December 29, 2012, 05:24:48 PMQuote from: CJSports on December 29, 2012, 12:36:54 PMQuote from: YourMathTeacher on December 29, 2012, 11:40:15 AMQuote from: cookie monster on December 28, 2012, 03:48:54 PMHow old is he? How did he teach himself? He sounds like a prodigy of sorts, would you call him that?He's 15 now. He started playing when he was 13, so I would not call him a prodigy. He's just really good! He still needs to learn how to read music. He does everything by ear right now. Our music director said that if he could read music he could play in the adult praise band every Sunday.Sounds like me until I started taking lessons. I would only ever play songs by ear until I started piano lessons. I still prefer playing songs by ear though.When I was in Africa, one of the churches had a piano player that did not know how to read music. So as they were beginning the song he would fiddle around with the keyboard until he found the key, then he would progressively get bigger until by the end of the song he was just jamming out and covering around 4 octaves! It was amazing considering he had never taken a lesson in his life! we (my dad and I) actually invited him over to our house to teach him some theory and how to read chords, he then came back every day to just play our keyboard with the music sheets we had laying around. He was 15 or 16.Sweet! I'd like to go to South Africa, I've heard it's kindOf dangerous though. I played the drums for about a year.. Took lessons from a secular drum teacher and the week before my surgery he was like 15 minutes late (my lesson was 30 minutes) so I left. Then I got a text from him that day asking if I was going to make it to drum lessons.. Needless to say, I was extremely mad and I am now very picky about who I want to use as a teacher because I WILL NOT go back to him again. So I'm gonna start back up next summer. I may just buy DVD's and use those to teach me. There's a Christian guy who makes them and teaches you how to play Christian songs, so I'll probably go with that route. I love the drums though. They aren't necessarily a musical instrument, but they're close. I'd like to learn to play guitar like Johnny cash. He plays it like a stand up bass and guitar mixed.I would can drums a musical instrument. In Africa if there was no beat, there was no music. They could not have music without beat so for most of there church services (almost all of them we went to except the one I mentioned earlier) there would just be a group of people playing a drum beat, the way they used those drums was awesome!.
Cookie Monster,I don't recommend using Christian songs as your basis for learning drums. Unless he's talking, like, Stryper-type bands, all Christian music has extremely basic drum lines and you won't go very far basing your skill on them.
As a guitarist, I can't read music and likely never will. <3 my instrument.
Quote from: Minister Polarius on December 29, 2012, 07:02:17 PMAs a guitarist, I can't read music and likely never will. <3 my instrument.+ 1 for truthfactiness. I can't read music either. I actually learned to play guitar in an unusual way; my dad taught me the 6 strings and some basic chords. Then, using mathematics, I figured out the half-step patterns to make all the types of chords. Basically, through primarily self-taught music theory, I learned to play guitar. Over time, I acquired the ability to play by ear; but first, I taught myself how to play a solo in any key (I just needed the person/people I was playing with to tell me what key they were playing, and I could play a solo). Playing by ear came naturally over time, because I understood what I was playing.
