Arts & Humanities: Performing Arts: “Question: How do I play a clarinet that squeaks when blown?” plus 5 more |
- Question: How do I play a clarinet that squeaks when blown?
- Question: Bass guitar for beginners?
- Question: What is the best way to learn fingerstyle guitar ?
- Question: Flute or sax?
- Question: High belting musical theatre songs?
- Question: Clarinet or Oboe?
| Question: How do I play a clarinet that squeaks when blown? Posted: 10 Dec 2015 10:42 AM PST Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Question: Bass guitar for beginners? Posted: 10 Dec 2015 09:54 AM PST You say "on a budget" but don't say what the actual budget is. $100? $300? $500? Also, remember that you'll need an amp. A decent bedroom practice amp would run about $100 new. I'd suggest the Fender Rumble 25 or an Ampeg BA-108. If you watch Craigslist (assuming you're in the US), you can find a used one for cheaper, maybe $50 or $60. As for a bass itself; the cheapest basses you can get new that I would consider are the SX basses from www.rondomusic.com. They are cheap Chinese copies of Fender standard designs, but unlike the cheap Chinese basses on ebay and amazon they are made with real wood and components. They run about $100-120, but I would strongly suggest taking one into a guitar store for new strings and a setup to really play well (another $50 probably). What's really best, though, is to go to an actual brick-and-mortar guitar store and try some instruments out. Buy the one that looks, feels, and sounds the best to you. Some people find they like thick chunky necks, other people like the neck slim. Weight and balance might be a factor. Yamaha makes some good starter basses around $180 or $200 new. If you can afford $300, the Squier Vintage Modified series is very good (I don't recommend the Affinity series - may as well just get an SX for cheaper). If you can afford $500 or $600, then things really open up with lots of manufacturers and models to consider. Remember than you can usually get a used instrument for 1/4 to 1/3 less than a new one, but you want to check it out carefully to make sure there's nothing wrong with it - straight neck, frets all play clean, electronics working without static, hardware tightly in place. |
| Question: What is the best way to learn fingerstyle guitar ? Posted: 10 Dec 2015 08:42 AM PST You, as a beginner, cannot learn to play by just doing random exercises you "like", because skipping over things you DON'T like, or find boring, may be the things you HAVE to learn in order to play well. You also cannot LEARN, not knowing how to play at all, by choosing extremely advanced or difficult pieces to "practice". You are trying to play pieces that took the guitarists you mentioned MANY years to learn and develop the skills they have that allows them to play so well and make it sound and look EASY. An experienced and talented musician isn't going to go on stage or post videos of any pieces he or she hasn't learned yet. While Jungha Sung PR likes to claim he is completely self-taught or learned from watching videos, that isn't entirely true if you read between the lines on his own website. His father is said not to be a musician, but then it says he plays the guitar as a hobby. A lot of really fine guitarists play as a hobby. Not everyone who plays an instrument, or has even studied for years to play an instrument, wants to try to do it as profession. The website claims Sungha taught himself, but then said he took (what they will ADMIT) 50 hours of classical guitar lessons. Regardless how he learned, it took him a long time to play well. Furthermore, some people seem to be better at certain tasks than others. Just because HE can gigure out how to play by watching videos, doesn't mean YOU can. He also tends to develop his own interpretation of the music...which if you copy other musicians, you tend only to teoeat what they do...errors and all (if it's new to you, you have NO idea if someone you see on YouTube you think is great, is playing correctly or not). At least get a few lessons to start you out. Flamenco guitar is also very difficult to just "pick up".
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| Posted: 10 Dec 2015 02:59 AM PST The sax is easier to learn how to blow into compared to the flute, but the flute is a C instrument like the guitar. If I were you I'd try them both out. As a violinist I like the flute because they're technically the same instrument, but as a guitarist I love the sax because improv is easier on it for me. |
| Question: High belting musical theatre songs? Posted: 10 Dec 2015 01:21 AM PST Hi! So as someone who's currently preparing for auditions for performing arts colleges, I wanted to expand my range of songs. I am a 16-y/o female belter with this range: There's a lot of Wicked going around and I've already heard the usual suggestions... e.g. "Let's Hear It For The Boy" or stuff from "Annie Get Your Gun". What I'm really looking for is the kind of song that no one else will probably have the balls to sing ... something that's not overdone in the theatre community. So, Yahoo!Answers community, I turn to you in this time of need. Are there any songs that go above the average belting range and are not overdone? Thanks! |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2015 06:20 PM PST Every instrument requires tremendous practice and patience to learn well, so I wouldn't look for which is easier (although blowing through a clarinet reed/mouthpiece takes a lot less pressure than through an oboe's double reed). However, oboists are far less common than clarinetists, which has pros and cons (demand of musicians, cost of the instrument and reeds, etc). At any rate, either will be fun if you enjoy it, so pick the one you like sound of best and have fun. (I started on clarinet, picked up saxophone to play jazz in Jr High, which became my main instrument, then went to music school where I also played flute and a little oboe and bassoon. And of course piano. Now I mainly play guitar). |
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