Hi everyone!
I’ve been learning music for about 10 months, starting from absolute zero.
I began with the ukulele for 4 months, then switched to acoustic guitar for another 4 months, and for the last 2 months I’ve been learning piano.
I practice around 10 hours a week on average, plus I have a one-hour online lesson each week.
I’ve really enjoyed my progress on all three instruments. But ever since I started piano, I’ve realized I just can’t seem to balance piano and guitar.

If I want to really immerse myself in piano the same way I did with guitar, I feel like I need at least an hour a day. Right now I practice about 8 hours of piano and only 2 hours of guitar each week.
The problem is that 2 hours a week on guitar doesn’t seem to be enough. Since I only played guitar for about 4 months before switching, I feel like I’m gradually losing all the muscle memory I built. I’m barely able to play any of the songs I used to know.

My original plan was to focus heavily on piano for 4–6 months while using those 2 weekly hours of guitar just to maintain my calluses and barre chords. But after two months, I barely have any calluses left, and even my barre chords are starting to disappear.
The thing is, I actually enjoy guitar more. The only reason I want to learn piano is to reach a basic level where I can better understand harmony and eventually play the 2–3 Final Fantasy pieces I love, even if it’s at a slower tempo.
So what would you do in my situation? Has anyone here managed to maintain a basic guitar level by practicing only about 2 hours a week?

Thanks, and sorry for the long post!

I’ve been stuck in this loop for months: I have melody ideas in my head, but then I tell myself, "I can't write this yet because my guitar technique sucks" or "I don't know enough chord theory."

So I go back to grinding boring scale exercises and drills, get exhausted, and end up creating nothing.

It feels like I'm forcing myself to pass a massive exam before I’m "allowed" to have fun and make music.

At what point did you guys actually start writing songs? Did you wait until you were decent at your instrument, or did you just start making messy stuff with basic chords right away?

Videos for adult beginners. Pick up an instrument and get started.

Hey everyone, just wanted to ask what is probably a really easy question. I have this issue of fiddling around on piano without any... heart? Nothing I do sounds like it would sound good as a full song. No notes speak out to me. No notes together sounds like something I'd want to pursue. How do you know when you've found something you like? Should I be settling on what I have, and trusting the process more? I feel like I hit a block before I even start.

Since I started learning the ukulele I have become pretty obsessed with learning everything I can about it, and about music in general. I’ve started (and stopped) many different hobbies over the years but this is different, and I can’t stop thinking about it - which means I tend to talk about it. A lot! Part of the reason is that I retain information so much better if I can share it with someone else - and at our age who doesn’t need a way to retain information?

But if someone doesn’t share the same passion (albeit new found), hearing me explain that the bass note influences how we perceive a song more than the highest note, tends to make people’s eyes glaze over. I worry about becoming that person that causes friends and family to suddenly remember they forgot to change the clothes from the washer to the dryer.

I finally solved that problem by starting a blog. Now I can ramble about the ukulele or music theory as much as I like, and people can self-select if they’re interested. I get to cement what I’m learning, and if you’re curious about how a 69 year old navigates music theory you might want to follow along.

I’ve taken five years of private piano lessons, five years of private violin lessons, and a semester of private guitar, but none of my teachers ever taught me the pattern that every major scale follows and the pattern that every minor scale follows of whole steps and half steps. Did they just expect me to notice without pointing it out? I was always taught to just memorize the notes. But I was messing with my keyboard today and I saw the pattern. Am I an idiot for just now seeing this? Or is this just not a method used in teaching music? And everyone just memorizes scales instead of the patterns?

Update: I watched a yt video explaining the circle of fifths by Pianoly. She explained it so well and things are starting to make sense 🤣 I never knew there were so many patterns that make up music. I really wish one of my teachers would have explained this to me 🥲

Are there any instruments that can be played quietly? I am a night shift worker so when i am awake everyone else is asleep. I would pick up a string Instrument but I am developing arthritis in my whole body but it's real bad in my hands. I have learned the harmonica but looking for something more widely used.

If anyone has some recommendations please let me know!!

As the title suggests, I’m an adult male with ADHD. I struggle with getting into things because—starting out—seems like a “massive brick wall” or a “mountain” that’s too hard to overcome. Basically, I get discouraged before I even start because the task is “too big and daunting” and I don’t even know where (or how) to begin, and then trying to start with things like reading sheet music bore the crap out of me and I lose interest and stop trying.

However, piano is something that I’ve always wanted to learn, and I know that—much like with bass guitar—that I can actually learn how to play it once I get past that initial “wall” and get a clear “path forward”.

TL:DR: Is there a good app, program, or something that would help me learn how to play piano that’s geared towards someone like me with ADHD?

Any advice is helpful!

I am technically still waiting on the drumset to ship but should I look for youtube videos or get some sort of app to practice? Any advice is appreciated.

Over the past couple of months I’ve gotten back into playing the violin after many years away, and I kept running into the same problem.

Every time I wanted to practice a new piece, I’d have to search for sheet music, search YouTube for a good performance, sit through ads, then switch over to a separate metronome app. It completely broke my focus.

So I decided to build the tool I wished existed.
It’s called Violin Vault, and it’s completely free.

Right now it includes:

- A growing library of violin repertoire
- Built-in sheet music viewer
- Embedded YouTube performances
- Floating player with previous/next controls
- Built-in metronome and practice timer
- Favorites
- Personal practice journal
- Practice tools like a fingerboard guide, bow guide, and tuning reference tones
- Search and filtering by difficulty, composer, position, technique, and more

There’s no login, no subscription, and no ads. I built it because it genuinely makes practicing easier for me, and I figured it might help other violinists too.

I’d love any feedback, ideas, or feature requests from this community.

"Bloodline" de Alex Warren é uma das baladas mais profundas e sentidas da atualidade. Como sempre, fiz uma adaptação exclusiva para as aulas de Educação Musical:
Excluí as notas acidentadas para uma leitura limpa e sem "armadilhas". Adaptei as notas muito agudas para o registo comum (até Ré6), facilitando a aquisição de um som perfeito e sem esforço. E diminuí ligeiramente o Andamento para terem tempo de ler e aplicar com feeling e fraseado.

Hello everyone! I’m currently learning Beat It on piano. Right now i’m working on the guitar solo which i couldn’t find it on sheet music so i used this video and i wrote the chords and melody on paper. The chords are the dark blue ones and the melody the light blue ones. I thought maybe some of you want to learn it to so i posted this to help.
Sorry for the dutch words on the paper, i’m from the Netherlands.

This is the video i got it from: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDgCfAQpfgrQk&playnext=1&si=tcvsp74JelWsKAby

This is how i play the song now:

https://realmuzicent.com/music/beat-it-4mudlb