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RicePaddy  ·  3225 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I made a few word clouds of my girlfriend's and my Facebook chat history

That's awesome, how did you manage to figure out which notes would work well together? If you've been playing piano for a while, but haven't taken lessons, chances are you actually know more music theory than you realize. I was working under the assumption you were still at a pretty basic level. How long have you been playing the piano for?

It's a beautiful piece, but if you're unfamiliar with the piano, you might find it difficult. Even though there's a lot of repetition, if your fingers aren't dexterous it'll definitely be a challenge.

One of the first pieces I learned was this one. If you can already play a few pieces at that level, you could try moving on to something that takes more co-ordination. When I was trying to build up some finger dexterity, I moved on to this one and the odd reel or slip jig. If you've already got some experience with songs at that kind of level, then I don't see why you can't give Fringe a go. It sounds challenging, but if you like the song it's huge motivation.





caelum19  ·  3219 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    how did you manage to figure out which notes would work well together?

I'm very curious about these things, I just paid attention to what sounds good to me and what doesn't and found the differences.

Songs I like tend to have evolving patterns, challanging me to guess what comes next so I can feel clever when I do, each time the notes or rhythm change, they change based off some 'rule' so I can predict what's going to happen with some difficulty. Sometimes the rule changes too, and there are rules about rule changing etc.

No idea why I still like some songs I've heard a million times though, I'm guessing there are several elements to music that people enjoy.