A risk of string

By Crash Overture on June 21, 2026 5:31 pm

This one was gone in Garageband, I used the autoplay for the strings, and then played along in Cminor and Cmajor on two alchemy Synths, and Taiko Drums.

I made the big decision to quit my violin lessons (I will still play on my own) and to work with my singing teacher to accompany myself on piano. On Piano I'm trying to memorize two chords a day, and then practice the very basic stuff in the intro book. This will be my 7th or 8th attempt to learn piano. Maybe this time it will stick. Learning chords definately make it a lot more interesting.

I really like violin, but none of the teachers I have had can explain stuff to me in a way I understand, so a lot I've had to figure out on my own or ask other music friends. Eventually I wanna find a teacher online that I can work with, that will make me feel like I am progress rather than playing the same song for 6-8 months with very little improvement. I felt like I got a lot better when I was playing fiddle music with neon liminal rather than my classical lessons. So I'll go back to fiddling and playing pop songs to improve my intonation and rhythm.

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Yesterday 6:05 pm

NickLong

I know what you mean with piano I've tried to learn a bunch of times and I'm still a total beginner.

It will stick one day.

Love the violins and taiko's on this one it's total drama.

Lessons are a weird thing you have to find someone you click with or it just doesn't happen.

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Yesterday 10:09 pm

neon liminal

This sounds great! There's a lot of play and back and forth here that works really well. This kind of DAW work is good for learning how melodies interact and interplay too on multiple levels.

I get the lesson thing - I think a lot of instrument teachers are really locked in to methods for teaching young people, and generally geared towards "life long career" type aspirations which isn't always applicable nor useful for "adult learners" like myself and yourself.

I definitely use WB as one tool towards structuring my learning and I'd encourage you to do it too, with piano, violin, whatever you like. With guitar, for me, it kinda breaks down like this:

- have an idea for this week's song that includes guitar
- what is the guitar doing in this type of song? what's it going to do for the song I'm making?
- think about what I already have a grasp on in terms of guitar for the above purpose
- think about where I need to improve, or possibly something I need to learn in the above context
- pick a goal for guitar learning for this week - it could be one of the things I need to improve or learn as above, or if I'm feeling confident with everything I "need" for this week's track, I will pick something new to learn and add to the guitar part
- practice/learn/improve IN THE CONTEXT OF RECORDING - it's really important for me to keep this in mind, that my purpose is to record and create a song - NOT PERFORM LIVE. As soon as I start focusing on the idea of live performance I lose the thread. That's not the point here.
- possibly also learn some new technical stuff with respect to recording my guitar (see: this week's track)

And then go to it. I aim to have all my recording done before Friday night so I have a couple nights to work in DAW with it. This also teaches you what's "good enough", and lets you learn how to "fix it in post", which is also important.

Sunday night I review what I made, think about what I learned, and think about what's next.

I am filling everyone's comments with walls of text today. Also our jigs were very very fun and super helpful learning.

This sounds great! There's a lot of play and back and forth here that works really well. This kind of DAW work is good for learning how melodies interact and interplay too on multiple levels. I get the lesson thing - I think a lot of instrument teachers are really locked in to methods for teaching young people, and generally geared towards "life long career" type aspirations which isn't always applicable nor useful for "adult learners" like myself and yourself. I definitely use WB as one tool towards structuring my learning and I'd encourage you to do it too, with piano, violin, whatever you like. With guitar, for me, it kinda breaks down like this: - have an idea for this week's song that includes guitar - what is the guitar doing in this type of song? what's it going to do for the song I'm making? - think about what I already have a grasp on in terms of guitar for the above purpose - think about where I need to improve, or possibly something I need to learn in the above context - pick a goal for guitar learning for this week - it could be one of the things I need to improve or learn as above, or if I'm feeling confident with everything I "need" for this week's track, I will pick something new to learn and add to the guitar part - practice/learn/improve IN THE CONTEXT OF RECORDING - it's really important for me to keep this in mind, that my purpose is to record and create a song - NOT PERFORM LIVE. As soon as I start focusing on the idea of live performance I lose the thread. That's not the point here. - possibly also learn some new technical stuff with respect to recording my guitar (see: this week's track) And then go to it. I aim to have all my recording done before Friday night so I have a couple nights to work in DAW with it. This also teaches you what's "good enough", and lets you learn how to "fix it in post", which is also important. Sunday night I review what I made, think about what I learned, and think about what's next. I am filling everyone's comments with walls of text today. Also our jigs were very very fun and super helpful learning.

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