Music
Sun Jul 11 21:35:39 IST 2021
- I bought a keyboard around a week ago
- following “Fundamentals of Music Theory” by University of Edinburgh on Coursera
- also learning via a lot of online resources
- a notable one being Zebra-keys
- I played the keyboard for a couple of years when I was around 10
years old but never discovered music as a whole along with it.
- starting as a beginner this time and current goal is to get the basics right and approach an instructor when I need customized guidance
- practicing around 30 mins on weekdays and around an hour on the weekends.
- even practicing something mediocre feels better than listening to
something great.
- opinions about this were initially addressed here
- this serves as a stream regarding whatever I learn and find interesting over the years
- Along with the basics of music theory, I’ve been focusing on
getting comfortable with the arrangement and the structural
relations of the keyboard as a whole
- one may memorize where a C falls and continue calculating other
notes from there on-wards but that quickly becomes a bottle neck
and so I’ve been practicing caching all the keys and their
relative positions directly in my mind by playing a randomly
asked note. I’m also learning sheet music along the way and
still rely upon landmark notes and abbreviations so those
relations are what I intend to imprint collectively in my senses
- A typical relation set would be:
- a particular note(textual)
- relative position of that note on the keyboard
- its staff notation
- the optimal fingering depending upon the context
- how the note sounds on a particular octave
- one could use a random note generator like the one in python below to deliberately index into these senses
- A typical relation set would be:
- one may memorize where a C falls and continue calculating other
notes from there on-wards but that quickly becomes a bottle neck
and so I’ve been practicing caching all the keys and their
relative positions directly in my mind by playing a randomly
asked note. I’m also learning sheet music along the way and
still rely upon landmark notes and abbreviations so those
relations are what I intend to imprint collectively in my senses
import time
import random
import art
notes = ['A','B','C','D','E','F','G']
try:
while(1):
print()
print(art.text2art(random.choice(notes),font='block'))
print()
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("Terminating process")
- this first log is an accumulation of thoughts over the past 4 days and hence longer than the expected future log
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