Questions tagged [learning-resources]
For questions relating to the use or availability of materials related to music-learning: for example: books, software, and hardware. (NOTE: recommendation requests are off-topic for this site.)
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
I've only been at the piano (or rather a 61-key keyboard) for about a month now. However, just out of curiosity, I wanted to ask what skills one must require to read and play using sheet music ...
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How does one learn piano as a non-Western?
I can memorise my regional songs by using Synthesia, play arpeggios and stuff, and impress others, but I think I will never learn piano properly this way.
I tried taking Udemy courses but the songs I ...
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How to do just intonation interval ear training?
I've been trying to train my ear to distinguish intervals for quite some time but I don't get very good at it. I've got a hypothesis that it's because ask the interval training programs, websites and ...
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Using song for interval training or not [duplicate]
When learning the intervals, is it bad using song as a reference? I mean I wanna get as good as possible and get them on instinct rather than a song reference. It would be also be less work if can ...
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Teaching music to my 4 year old
I gifted an 8 key toy piano to my son (Image above) more than a year ago. He played with the toy on and off. Recently he started playing rhymes on the piano after listening to pre-recorded rhymes from ...
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Open string call out does not match requested music note
I am learning guitar and recently came across a sheet requesting what I understand to be an open B string (red arrow), however the music sheet shows a C (blue arrow) note being played. What is the ...
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What are equivalents to literary theories for music?
Are there equivalents to literary theories for music ? I'm trying to find extensive music review "theories" which would be arguably philosophical ( similar to for example structuralism/...
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What are some good resources for exercising on calculating intervals? [closed]
I'm asking for a textbook, website or whatever that is filled with "musical interval equations" to solve and that can check me.
By "musical interval equations" I mean something ...
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how to deal with registration bank changes without interrupting the flow of the music? [closed]
I have been practicing keyboard for a year now and I can play scales, Chords and some songs nicely with right hand, with left hand I play with a 50% speed as that of right hand.
I am trying to ...
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There is a course that teaches a specific version of the Jazz tune Summertime that I cannot find [closed]
I'm searching for a version of summertime and the course that teaches it. Around 2005-2009 there was an online website that offered a course that contained a book with 4 dvds and different, ...
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What are good resources for research on a particular work? [closed]
Are there some well-known resources for scholars, like JSTOR is for academic papers, or specialized publications?
Any type of investigation on a work is of interest, musical analysis, theory, ...
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Do any undergraduate theory textbooks explain Gregorian chant notation?
When it comes to common-practice notation, basically every college theory textbook explains all of the basics. But I don't know of any undergraduate theory textbook that includes a discussion of chant ...
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Are there free (or inexpensive) 4-part dictation resources? [closed]
I am beginning to teach a new course, and I am seeking some sort of source of simple 4-part dictations that I can use with my class. They have done harmonic dictation already, but have not had to ...
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Alternatives to the «Suzuki Violin School» series?
What are some alternatives to the 10-vol. Suzuki Violin School series suited for self-taught adult beginners with a solid musical background?
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Beginning on the Dulzaina
I'm keen to receive advice or tips on how one can start out with the Spanish wind instrument the Dulzaina (in Catalan it is called the Dolçaina).
Dulzaina on Wikipedia
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