Song Intimidation

[Mrandrew]

Anyone every been intimidated by a song? Not the one's that maybe beyond for now or in the past, but the one's you know/knew down in your guts you could learn and yet still hesitated.

Now this may occur only during the first 2 years of learning.

[B3Wannabe]

I think the problem a lot of people have is that they try to get it exact in the beginning. I don't think that's possible. As a beginner, you're going to mess up, or get the chords wrong. Just listen to the song for the patterns you can hear, probably the vocal part and bass, and play that. That's what I used to do. As I learned more chords, I'd add those. It should be fairly easy to play the vocal part of a song on the piano.

[Mrandrew]

For me I think it was not believing in myself, even though I was picking up songs. I play mainly smooth jazz and would work on songs I used to think were hard and then I'd hear a song and would go now how do I learn that.

Now with learning a lot of chords (still working on patterns, can hear circle patterns perfect) I can hear the chords and have pretty good idea how to play.

One thing I notice that if you learn from using a cassette tape vs learning from the cd you will be playing the song in a different key.

[B3Wannabe]

For me I think it was not believing in myself, even though I was picking up songs. I play mainly smooth jazz and would work on songs I used to think were hard and then I'd hear a song and would go now how do I learn that.

Now with learning a lot of chords (still working on patterns, can hear circle patterns perfect) I can hear the chords and have pretty good idea how to play.

One thing I notice that if you learn from using a cassette tape vs learning from the cd you will be playing the song in a different key.

Do they still sell those?

[Mrandrew]

Do they still sell those?

 LOL I'm old school got a lot of songs still on cassette that I listen too.

[B3Wannabe]

LOL I'm old school got a lot of songs still on cassette that I listen too.

You need to fix that. Just take your recorder and plug it into your computers mic jack. Use Audacity or Wavepad to record the audio then save it as MP3.

[under13]

One thing I notice that if you learn from using a cassette tape vs learning from the cd you will be playing the song in a different key.

Thats only because your tape recorder is broken. Mine used to do the same thing.

[Mrandrew]

Thats only because your tape recorder is broken. Mine used to do the same thing.

That maybe true. It was weird learning the song from the tape, because I couldn't remember the name of the artist, but went through the cd collect and found it and then discovered it was in Ab and not D.

[csedwards2]

That maybe true. It was weird learning the song from the tape, because I couldn't remember the name of the artist, but went through the cd collect and found it and then discovered it was in Ab and not D.

dang, a whole tri-tone? lol

[under13]

That maybe true. It was weird learning the song from the tape, because I couldn't remember the name of the artist, but went through the cd collect and found it and then discovered it was in Ab and not D.

thats very bad. Mine used to take it up a half step. I took it back and got another one, and after a few months it did the same thing.

[Mrandrew]

dang, a whole tri-tone? lol

I took like hey, I can now play it in 2 keys.