Kyla

John, Thank you for your reply! As my hard drive failed recently and I am in a friends city, visiting, I am unable to post many photos. I have these two but they are not very good scanned images of some of my flower drawings. I like to shade a lot with the pencil and take my time with the drawing. Scanner quality sucks so you won't get a chance to see how it really looks anytime soon unfortunately.. I also tried layering an additional gray layer of 20% opacity in PS because the scanner made them too bright and you could hardly see. There they are: https://ibb.co/hdCavT https://ibb.co/fRyFvT I checked out your drawings and they are amazing! Much better than what I can draw. You can reach a higher level of realism, I loved that dog drawing. It really looks as if the dog is alive and has that emotion of the moment. Like he is about to "woof" anytime! So your friend is really good with the piano? In the meantime, I was checking out the possible options for the piano. Since I am going to try and do this I will have to have an instrument. The days of acoustics are over because of their high price and lack of features. I read a lot about the digitals yesterday and I am pretty sure that I will be getting a digital piano. The additional features it will provide me will probably keep me attached to the instrument and make the learning far more interesting, which is kind of important for me as I am easily distracted with other things like drawing Do you happen to know about the digital pianos? I was thinking of going with something like yamaha p-115. I really like the features and people overall say its good. It is in my price range but then there are other manufacturers too. I am actually afraid of buying something just because by my own research it looks good because I was wrong before and this is not a small decision. Basically half of my paycheck will go to it :/ Can you tell me if you think, from your experience at least, that this is a good option? Or even better can you ask your friend? Or if he is on the forum, I can send the pm Your assumptions are correct lol I think I that I am convinced to try learning it! And I will keep you updated once the learning starts! This forum is definitely a place to share the process! It will not be an overnight thing thats for sure.. But let it be an overYEAR thing and I will be VERY happy

The piano was always intriguing to me but I never dared to start practicing.. I am an active viola player and I love songwriting. Those two were always my favorite things about the music as an art. I also practice other arts as I am active in the theater with small roles and I love pencil drawing. I was thinking of finally owning up and starting to learn the piano but what if it is too late now? I am no longer even young adult and it was easy for me to learn the viola at the age of 14. What are your thoughts on this? Did any of you try learning the piano in the older age? I know that I could learn a piano now but could I become really good at it? Does it matter if I wasn't practicing in the childhood?

Wow you really know your stuff! I would also agree about the mailing list

Thats interesting.. Are you making Indie music? Does it work for you?

wow! Never would imagine how powerful daws are. I really have to learn how to work with them. I am also going to be buying the digital piano soon.. Rolands are good for working with daw's?

Honestly, it is not worth the extra money to get the "studio rated" monitors or headphones.. Just get what fits your budget. When it comes to monitors vs headphones.. That's a decade old battle.. Again get what fits your budget and needs and later also buy the other one when you collect enough money. That's the best you can do really

Can we get a verse?

Well yeah you will find out what the audience wants through trial and error but if you dont want to produce what the audience wants it is hardly that you will last for a long time as being successful. People tend to see through if someone is not truly genuine

Really interesting topic.. Sorry for barging in since the topic seems like it was ended.. I always wondered the same thing. Its different being on stage and being in your studio writing and performing. Since I dont perform, I never had to face this but I always wondered about it. Maybe some people just can ignore everything and only be an expression of their music..

First write for myself and then I see who are the people interested in hearing it

You are always interested in arts as far as I can tell. There is nothing wrong with doing various types of arts. Why not try and combine them together? Pm me if you wanna talk about it more. I also exercise more than one art form