Anybody play instruments here?

Improv a lot. Slow down and take the time to find where you want to go in a composition. Don’t place expectations on yourself. Do it long enough and you’ll develop intuition, which for me is greater than intellectual understanding of the instrument

Playing guitar for just under 4 years. I'm okay, can play some tricky stuff. Make some 'music' occasionall. If you're interested:
soundcloud.com/ned-bero/boot-heels-m4a

Thanks. Besides scales, chords, playing in 3rds and 4ths. What else? I can't learn a song for shit, even if youtube the synthesia video of it.

Like, don’t be put off when your improv sounds bad. Sounding bad is part of the process you go through to find ways of sounding good. Just keep feeling around and experimenting. It really is an infinite well of possibility. It can be easy to feel stuck down a rabbit hole, it takes some presence of mind to back it up and refresh yourself. I don’t know that’s the best I can explain it, hope that helps

For learning songs you just have to practice it an assload of times and get the muscle memory. This has always been hard for me and it’s not typically how I play anymore. The way I always did it was by looking at midi files and matching the notes one at a time. It’s just so much harder to learn something than to create it. I could never play the kinda of things I do if I was trying to learn them from somebody else, it’s easy because the process of composition cements the piece in your brain

You're doing good user keep it going

I've been playing piano for almost 30 years and guitar for 13.

Piano since I was like 5, I teach it but only at a very beginner level, I never took any of the bi classical exams but I do want to.
I've been playing guitar for just over 2 years now and I'm more proficient at it then piano I sometimes feel. Although I'm much better at composing on the fly on the piano. My Improve is pretty good, I practice it regularly

Damn, thanks so much.

i play most instruments at a base level
piano is the most satisfying to play solo on though, when the skill barrier between thought and expression becomes small enough its really something else

holy shit you get it. Its the one instrument where I can control it without thinking, it's like speaking with it, it becomes an extension of yourself

>playing piano for almost 30 years
Well fuck yeah, tell us about your process?
np user. best of luck, everyone’s gotta find their own way

piano, harmonica, guitar, bass, drums, and ukelelelele. mind you im not a master at any of these instruments but ive always had more fun learning different instruments than sitting around and fucking around with only one.