I am another musicaholic waiting to be different.Currently my age is 19.I wanna  learn to play keyboard and electric guitar.I am also doing my engineering studies in Comnputer Science.How to learn to play the two instruments without hampering my studies?What should be  my first step towards my side-career of music?A little information about learning the two instruments is expected from the answerers.Help me.
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Studies first.! You should fix your schedule.. If you have time to learn those instruments, then spend it wisely.. Guitar & Piano Lessons are also useful., and,, if you already knew the chords in Guitar-minors and majors and the keys in Piano-I mean the C,B,D,E,F,G,A,B,C--even without knowing the notes written in piano pieces,, then you can play & compose your own songs... :D The notes and tunes are just the same so whatever piece you'll play in Guitar, can also be played in Piano--using chords..!
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I am a complete klutz who can't hold a pencil without dropping it and I learned to play lead guitar in a surf rock band okay (NOT good, mind you, but ok) in 6 months.  I put in a LOT of hours but we're talking fast picking lead, not rhythm guitar.  I learned both on acoustic and electric.\n\nSo, I can quite honestly say if I can do it anyone can do it.  The hardest thing with an acoustic guitar (more than an electric) is buidlign your callouses.  You'll have to build up some major callouses and get so your left hand and right hand will work independently.  That isn't as hard as it sounds.\n\nThe truth is in this saying by the man Beethoven chose to teach his nephew:  "Practice is the great magician who not only makes apparent impossiblities performable, but ever easy."  Carl Czerny\n\nHINT:  Don't play too long the first couple of weeks or your fingers will get too sore from depressing the strings, even on a high end guitar.  If you put your hands in warm water and think your fingertips are on fire, you're practicing too long at one stretch.  Build up time slowly.\n\nHINT TWO:  Get really good strings.  They will make your life a lot easier and sound better, too.\n\nHINT THREE: Don't be discouraged by what seems like failure.  One day you'll suddenly make a giant leap and be doing something you thought you'd never get.  Then you'll level off and think you aren't getting anywhere.  Pretty soon you'll take another leap.\n\nHINT FOUR:  When you aren't playing, do "beats" with your hands against your legs, the arm of the chair, etc.  It helps you learn to keep time.  (This I thought I'd NEVER be able to learn.  Everyone always said I had to sense of rhythm at all.  Imagine how proud I was when I took up drums and everyone sat and stared at me because I actually had a really steady beat from months of slapping furniture and my body to anything playing on the radio!  YAY!)\n\nGood luck!
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Well first and foremost thing is that you shud own a guitar, and if available and feasible, a good one. I own onw from Yamaha.\nNow coming to your question, it depends on what type of learner you are... you should be dedicated and have someone to tell you some basic tips.. after that you can go along yourself...\nYou should take care of your beating, changing chords come second, firstly you should do something like this... 1 2 3 4, beat the same chord four times slowly.. and do take care of timing...do it slowly, don't miss even one string while beating as per the instructions for playing that specific chord...\nIve only been playing for a month and now i kno almost all basics,, and i can play any song provided to me after few practices....and meet out your friends for help.. it will quicken your pace,,,, you can become better than you dude in 6 months if you play well........ n hey i'll be playing knock knock by GNR and singing it in our school function shortly.. me a guy who has had a guitar only for  a month!.. you can download easy chord\nat www.subjectmusic.com/easychord .. it helps n is available 4 free!\nhave fun dude..
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if you learn electric first, it'll be hard to play acoustic.\nif you learn acoustic first, electric will be alot easier to learn.
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I've seen this guitar in many forms.  You gotta ask yourself what did all the guitar players do to learn their craft before things like this came along.  I would say this guitar will become a crutch as you will always be looking for the hints on the neck.  Buy a entry level Fender or similar guitar and buy a guitar tableture book with you favorite songs if you don't want to take proper lessons.  Learn the chords and play them for at least 20 minutes every day....and I do mean every day.  The blisters you are going to get are gonna hurt at first but it's part of the trade.
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go to a  music store........there's lots of  books on tableture.\n\ngood luck  and never  quit playing.\n\nI  come from 22 yrs of bass guitar.\nROCK ON
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Yes, I play keyboards, piano and a little bit of guitar. On why I do so, it is because for me, there is no better way that to play an instrument or to write a short story to express what is going on inside of me. Music has a way of getting your happiness, sadness, anger, fear, insecurity and love out in ways that nothing else in life can :-)
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Piano is very easy to learn.  My cousin showed my where middle C was on the keyboard, and I figured the rest out from there.  The hardest part for me is playing bass lines with the left hand.  (I play guitar as well)
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So, your skill is awesome, eh?? ^_^\n\nMaybe you can teach me a thing or two, btw I try to find someone who can play a lot of musical instrument and have a great sense of music. I don't want to be cocky, but I'm 18 years old boy and I know a lot of classical music. I've been playing guitar for 3 years and I have made a lot of songs. But I don't publish it, and mostly I forgot it after 6-7 days. ^_^\n\nBut I want to find someone who have a great sense of music, because all my friends know how to sing, to play musical instrument, but doesn't have a sense. Just play it like a copycat, and honestly, I don't like it....
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i'm a guitar instructor, i teach about 40 students a week. if you have any questions, dont be afraid to ask. the first thing i'd recommend is figuring out what guitar is right for you. the 3 big things to learn about are the type of neck/neckjoint on the guitar, the type of pickups (single coils, or humbuckers) and the type of bridge on the guitar (fixed bridge or tremolo system). after that, its just a matter of making sure the instrument is comfortable for you.\n\nanytime anyone tells you that you need to play a certain type of guitar/amp, or use certain strings or picks or whatever..... well, thats the same as me telling you that you should only wear red shirts, and only eat tacos, never wear blue shirts or eat ice cream. just because something is good for me, doesnt mean its right for you.
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I would think that anyone who can play one or more instruments and who likes, appreciates and understands musci is more of a creative personality and, thus, more interesting.  Do you state this in a way that sounds like bragging, perhaps?  I'm not saying you do, but if it comes off as bragging, people might think you're too into your own self to want to become involved with you.
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There was another question about guitars and every girl said she thought it was super sexy. I play guitar, drums, piano and can sing. Piano can be sexy it you know how to play it correctly.\n\nAnd Miss China Doll, what is a rock bank because I want an account in that!
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Learn the Circle of Fifths chart....It'll be extremely difficult at first but if your persistent and have a passion for music you should be fine! GOOD LUCK!!!!
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It's like some people are really dedicated to mastering a musical instrument. They spend all their time practicing and all their money goes for guitar strings and sheet music and music lessons. And other people buy an instrument, and tell everyone "I'm a guitar player" and they spend their money on "guitar player" clothes and stuff, but they never bother to learn to play guitar very well.\n\nThe one totally is into playing guitar while the other is merely interested having others think of him (or her) as a guitar player.
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hey i just started playing guitar about 3 months ago and im pretty good already.  first u have to learn how to reead tabulature (tab).  go into google and type in how to read tab.  once you learn that you can go to guitartabs.cc and get tabs or i advise that u get a book :) thats wut i did:)
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i was 10.  now 23.  my mom started to teach me, and now i think i'm pretty good. but from what i hear, everybody plays guitar nowadays. it didn't take me very long because i really liked music and i liked it so much i just played constantly. i started with an acoustic and i think it would be pretty good to start with. it's basic and you can find cheap ones to see if you like it. plus you won't have to get an amp for it. good luck.
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When I was very young, I practiced with a tape recorder. When I was fourteen, my Father bought my Mother an organ for their anniversary. I learned how to play it out of the instruction books that came with the organ.\n\nAt a flea market in Crosby, Ontario, a year later, I bought an old guitar for twenty bucks. I took classes with my Dad at the after-school program, and I practiced night and day. Within two months, I had passed the teacher.\n\nNonetheless, I was not a great guitar player, or a great singer. In Grade 13, I became enamoured with the blues, which I heard on late night Sunday radio.  I began to work at learning this style, and had started a bar band devoted to the blues within a couple of years. Though I was not a great singer, I had vocal range, and I worked at singing, too.\n\nWe got on the radio basically because our bass player was a promo hound - would not take no for an answer. At this point, I had become the group's sole singer. We started to explore beyond the limitations of blues by listening to, and then playing, things from the Stax/Motown era.\n\nWe got a horn section, and started playing some Tower of Power. We scrimped, saved, and planned, and stored up enough money to hit the studio, which we did in 1993. We put out a CD that year, recording the bed tracks in my parents' barn, and doing the horns and vocals in the studio.\n\nIn terms of developing vocal chops, here's what you do. Record yourself singing - a lot. Be a harsh critic of yourself. Don't give the recordings to a friend to judge, as they will feel they have to pump your ego - assume that everything you hear that makes you cringe is a real problem, and then work at it.\n\nVocal lessons can help as well - especially if you do not think you are a great judge of your own skill, an objective outside opinion helps. Plus, they will teach you how to breathe and read music, pretty useful skills for studio recordings.\n\nIn terms of business success - hustle mercilessly. Don't take no for an answer. Promote yourself constantly.