I want to learn to play the keyboard, but...

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• Tachyon

  2017-09-08 22:11:56

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  practice
• Tachyon

  2017-09-08 22:12:32

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  which is to say, i'm pretty sure everyone has this problem initially when playing the keyboard
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-09-08 22:13:07

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Tachyon said:

  practice

  
  
• Hexartes

  2017-09-08 22:13:31

  I certainly did, but I also only learned keyboard in fifth and sixth grade. A shame, too. I really wanted to continue with it. Music is one of many things I'd like to be competent at.
• Princess Alice

  2017-09-08 22:16:38

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  More practice it is! ^_^

  
  

  In any event, here's a high-resolution photograph of my keyboard, since I know you nerds are curious.

  
  

  
  
• Imipolex G

  2017-09-08 22:26:37

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Practice, yeah.
  
  I had to learn this for guitar, which involved lots of, y'know, practice.
  
  Practice.
  
• SF_Sorrow

  2017-09-08 23:20:18

  
  

  I have the same problem as well, it's all right
  
  practising helps, just need to be insistent about it
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-09-09 00:22:33

  Why does the photo look slightly fisheye?
  
  And yeah, practice is basically the way to solve the problem.  Specifically, persistent, long-term practice.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-09-09 00:24:21

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I've played keyboards for a band and I still legitimately suck at this, partly because I... don't practice much at all. ^~^;
  
• buttercrispy

  2017-09-09 02:02:59

  Yeah, practice is how you work on it. It gets easiER, still not easy for me.
• eriophora zia

  2017-09-09 02:49:38

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  Precision before speed. Get a metronome. Set it to 60 bps. If you fuck up, start from the beginning and consider taking it even more slowly.
  
  After you have done 3 run throughs perfectly at 60bps, notch it up to 65. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  
  It may feel tedious, but it will allow you to progress more quickly overall.
  
  Consider purchasing a book of Hanon's dexterity exercises. They're worth it.
  
  Do scales (make sure you're doing proper fingerings!!!!) until you want to shoot yourself.
• Princess Alice

  2017-09-09 02:55:04

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Thanks for the advice ^_^
• eriophora zia

  2017-09-09 02:56:45

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  It's all stuff I've learned the hard way across four different instruments, so I assure you it's a solid method! Even if it feels slow and frustrating. Very much "slow and steady wins the race" when it comes to music, unless you're some ridiculous prodigy, at which point you are a cheater pants.
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-09-09 03:41:53

  "Ridiculous prodigy" basically just means you can't stop thinking about it and you keep thinking about it and in effect you're practicing it in your head without intentional contact with it.
  
  And even then, you need to first build the motor skills for playing the instrument -- you can't really build new technique this way, just use existing techniques to learn a new piece.
  
• Imipolex G

  2017-09-09 04:02:16

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  glenn is a cheater pants