[Is it too late to start learning a piano?]

13 hours ago, john said:

As an artist I’d love to see some of your drawings. I have posted a few of my drawings on here.

 

As to the piano... one of my friends took up piano as his only real instrument (other than a tortured guitar chord or two) in his 30s. Within a couple of years he was playing in bands.

 

I keep learning new instruments. It is something I have always enjoyed Constantly expanding skills and understanding... it just doesn’t get old for me.

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

 

54 minutes ago, Rob Ash said:

 

I assume you are not intrinsically especially gifted, and are not from another more advanced planet far away. These things being true, I feel safe in saying that although Julliard and a career with The Met may be slightly unrealistic, expectation-wise, it is never not possible to learn something new, even when learning a thing involves inherent difficulty. Will drives all, Kyla. If you possess some degree of inherent musicality and musical ability, I would assume you lack nothing major that would prevent you from learning to play piano proficiently.

 

Oh... some small measure of stick-to-it-iveness would help, as well. Skill on piano, for most, does not come overnight.

 

Best of luck if you choose to proceed, and please, by all means, keep us appraised of your progress. Audio links and video posts would be not only appropriate, but welcomed and encouraged.

 

You may have noticed that this is a fine, fine place to share that very sort of thing.

 

 

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

[Is it too late to start learning a piano?]

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? 

[Streaming Services Income]

On 6/19/2018 at 10:45 PM, john said:

I do make indie music, though by far recent years I have focussed on helping other artists... through SOngstuff and through personal connections, and now via an indie co-op label.

 

At the lower end of the market, direct sales is definitely the way to go. Bring in some money (that you can use to finance fan base growth) until numbers are significant enough to make a dent in streaming and digital download platforms. That said, it is still a good idea to be on those platforms from the get go. Use a low cost ditribution platform to be present in those platforms.... however... as an artist with less than 3,000 fans, growing your mailing list is the priority, for many reasons. I would suggest focussing on direct sales up until about 10k fans. Just my 2 cents

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

[Streaming Services Income]

Thats interesting.. 

Are you making Indie music? Does it work for you?

[Playing Soft Synths On Stage]

On 5/18/2018 at 8:30 PM, starise said:

The really cool thing about Ableton is is can speed up/slow down tracks and even change the keys. Lets say you buy a multi track from http://loopcommunity.com/ or something similar. You'll get everything as a separate track which you can download as a list.

With a PC you can lasso the whole list of wavs using CTRL +click and drag it right into the session view of Ableton. If you know how to do it you can drag the song into a chronological order, kind of like using Excel only for music.. These song cells can then be placed in order and triggered with midi. If you don't want to take a laptop along you can write the perfomance to a usb thumb drive or SD card and play it in a music player or a supporting keyboard. My Roland has a usb port on front that will play wavs. Lots of things you can do!

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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?

[Mixing on Headphones vs Monitors]

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

[Do you write for yourself or for the audience?]

On 6/16/2018 at 8:38 PM, Rudi said:

 

ohhh.. I wish I had thought of that line!

Can we get a verse?

[Do you write for yourself or for the audience?]

12 hours ago, Steve Mueske said:

How can one possibly know what an audience wants? At best it is a constructed audience. Unless, of course, you suddenly start making a shit ton of money. Then you probably know what your audience wants. In which case, write down the formula, repeat ad infinitum, then throw your soul on a pile of coats by the door.

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 

[How Do You Keep Emotion?]

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.. 

[Do you write for yourself or for the audience?]

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

[Do You Also Feel This Way...?]

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