I want to gain music and artistic abilities which I have absolutely no experience or talent in. Can you help?
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MUSIC!!!! i'm a musican s (and my bf is an artist) so i'd recommend it!! take classes at ur school Junior college or egt someone who u know it be a good musician or artist to give you tips and help u....
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Perhaps, find a book you like more.  Definitely learn the fingerings for chords, and practice changing between them.  Also, learn scales.  Try going up and down the fretboard, using each finger, and switching between strings.  Try different combinations and variations too.  This will increase your agility and stamina.  Keep your middle finger and thumb relatively parallel to one another.  Also, when I first started learning to play the guitar, I found that I began to play better and improve faster when I practiced standing up.  You'll have to use a strap of course.  I know this has worked for friends of mine, but it's definitely not something that is a scientific constant.  Once you become more physically proficient at guitar, the technical aspects should become easier.  Make sure your fingers are getting stronger and more practiced, at the same time you are learning chords, scales, and riffs.  There is no truly easy way, but you can surely make it easier on yourself beforehand.
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Find someone to help you book some gigs, get a band (if you dont have one) and get a van to travel to the gigs and to sleep in.  Be willing to take ANYTHING to get your music out there.  It will also be a very big help for you to have a self-recorded and self-pressed CD for sales at the gigs.  If you don't have extra ways of making money, you'll starve.\n\nI did this for a while back in the early 80s.  It was a lot of fun, but we were always dirty and hungry.  We'd play in front of anyone and any size crowd.  We never really 'made it', but it was fun for a while.
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I don't have any experience...if it helps.
370796
Try a book. Microcosmos by Bartok. It starts in SUPER easy and by the time you're done with it you play great.
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Hiya.\nWhat you should do is get some of your talent onto tape or CD!  Make some of your own songs up, or sing ones that already exist.\nBacking music is also good, but the record company listening to it wants to hear you, wants to hear versatility and depth.\nThen when you are done, get the address's of about 10-20 record labels and send off a copy of your tape/CD to them.  The more you send to, the better.\n\nGood luck\n\n\nPS:\nYou can get their address's from the Internet by typing in Sony record label etc.
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You gotta put something together first like a demo showcasing your talent.Enter local competitions and talent shows.
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need more info \ndance music/rock music etc\nacoustic/electric/amped up guitars\n\ngood luck
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This will sound really unhelpful... \npractice.\nThat's a skill than can only get better by doing it over and over again, if you don't already have a natural ability to do it.  People with perfect pitch can just find any note and sing through anything.  I suggest you sit yourself at a piano and just keep practicing and practicing.\nOh and also, learn your intervals! Ok maybe that's more important!  Intervals!  learn memory devices for each interval. Example.  "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for major 3rd\nthe NBC chimes for 6th, and so on
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i would suggest if u have time to listen to music, instead u could make use of your arms and feet and brain, and get a job, earn some money and buy yourself an iPod!\nGood Luck!
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what kind of help are you looking for..?\n\nEDIT: ok..you know what kind of music you want to do..that's a start...now go to where that kind of music is performed..hit the clubs..look up message boards..go to stores that cater to the dj and talk to people...make your own beats and record the songs for now so that you have something to show someone other than a scrap of paper with some words on it.....you are going to have to put some work into this...keep at it and you'll get it.....
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Just follow that dream.  Get together with the most talented musicians that you can find and get a band going.  Start practicing.  Write your own songs.  Play locally.  See what happens.\n\nDon't put all your faith in music.  You'll probably want to keep a day job to pay the bills.
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You mean to teach yourself, get books on the instrument of choice, and start from there. Hangin out at the local music store is helpful. Ask questions. And study the styles of your favorite bands and copy their licks. Alot of patience and daily practice.
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just enter a ton of talent shows. You never know who might come and watch i mean look at Avril Lavigne!! She got famous BY a talent show. Music producer. Also practice what you good at like singing or dancing or piano or flute.
732107
Wow.  You're a music person and you want to learn a programming language just for that.  I wouldn't advise it.  Just do a search for music note learning games or something.  I found this one: http://www.happynote.com/ear-training.html.  Probably not exactly what you need, but you could try more searches...
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You should check out Yanni!  He is a VERY talented musician!  But not as talented as myself, for I am the best!
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forget online. buy a real guitar. you wont know that your a musician until you feel that vibrating baby in your hands.