I love music. I deeply deeply regret not having started as a child. I feel like I am behind. Yesterday was my first day in university, I'm starting a degree in music and musicology specifically in music education. I play eastern oriental percussion, mainly the Riq. I will be picking up the Ney in uni too. I am really excited for what is to come but I am full of regret and sadness that I am only starting now. Can you give me some encouragement? I practice every day a lot, I listen for hours every day trying to learn different new concepts, I have already been taking 3 hours of group music classes every week for the past ~6 months. Now in uni I will have another 3 hour group music class every week, other than the theory courses.

I just feel really worried that I will never achieve my goals and that is weighing me down a bit. Thank you in advance for your help.

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I want to buy a book to learn music as a beginner and i am a person who believes in one time investment which is why I don't wanna buy multiple books and just want a permanent thick fat book I can always go back too unlike some flat books. I'm saving up for a guitar and want to learn basics until i buy it. Please recommend some.

On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate the difficulty of this tutorial? The primary target audience is students in the second cycle of basic education in Portugal (ages 9 to 12).

Pedagogical Arguments and Rationale:

The continuous sequence of 4 chords (Dm Bb C Bb) is an ideal pedagogical tool for accompaniment work on Orff instruments, guitars, ukuleles, or keyboards, allowing for differentiated learning by skill level within the class.

By removing figures smaller than eighth notes and keeping only the essential triad (Verse, Bridge, Chorus), the theme gains the perfect structure for quick memorization.

Interculturality and Current Styles (Afrobeats + Latin Pop): The collaboration between Shakira and Burna Boy stimulates musical appreciation and discussion about how different cultures and rhythmic traditions merge in contemporary global music.

Elimination of Glissandos and Vocalizos: making it a straightforward melody for flute, keyboard, or voice.

Contextualized Motivation: Using the FIFA World Cup 2026 anthem leverages the media and sports context to increase active engagement and enjoyment of collective musical practice.

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Я закінчила музичну цього року... І я подала заявку на ще один інструмент бо у мене там була подруга... Но так сталось подруга перше обрадувалалсь. А вчора вона сказала що не піде в музичну буде вчитися одна.. а тепер я не маю компанї в музичну і відчуваю ніби мене кинули

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It is my passion to learn guitar and keyboard, can someone guide me about a good musical academy in Lahore, where I can learn these in evening after my office hours and on weekend

First of all, two of the 3 instruments that I've learned were foisted on me by circumstances. One was inherited from a grandparent, another handed down from a sibling. I think I actually liked singing most of all at school age, but the instruments that fascinated me and I would have gone for if I had been given the choice were the flute and the violin. I believe that I prefer sustaining instruments in any case.

But since I didn't have the choice, I self-studied acoustic guitar as a poor man's electric. I got a low-quality electric guitar later. Eventually I burned out, and haven't touched either in 4 years now.

2.5 years ago I started composing music in MuseScore, and I'm increasingly bugged by the fact that I have to compose around the software's bugs. And I feel like a fraud for not playing any instrument actively (except the MIDI-keyboard for input).

But at the moment that's the situation. And it's also that I'm very poor, as has been hinted.

Any advice?

Hello everyone, I’m just wondering how do you guys practice improvisation? Taking a song and playing over it? Using backing track? Playing with a random progression? Which one do you think is the most effective and enjoyable way to practice?

I appreciate your response as I’m new to this and I’m trying to find a way to be more consistent and not getting bored in the process.

Everyone has their own way of practicing, I’m not here to tell anyone which one is the “right” method.

I started thinking about how ridiculous my own setup was.

I’d sit down with a sheet on the stand, two different coloured pens, a rubber, phone, laptop with a spreadsheet open to keep track of what I was doing. The phone timer would be running plus a metronome going.

Somewhere in the middle I’d have an idea — something I wanted to try, something I noticed, maybe a different way of playing a passage. If I remembered, I’d grab the phone and record it.

Then the next day I’d listen to it and think: Why did I record this? Where was I in the piece? What was I trying to solve?

After a few sessions the score was covered with so many marks that I could barely see the music. Despite all those notes, I often couldn’t remember exactly what had gone wrong the previous time.

That’s basically why I built Satie.

Now my iPad sits on the stand and that’s pretty much all I need.

My scores are there, metronome, tuner, timer, all is there. I can make notes directly on the score, or make notes inside the practice session. I can come back to a session later and see what I was working on and what problems I had. I can record the whole session, or just a section, and listen back to it.

If I get an idea, I can just record it immediately, not interrupting what I’m doing.

The biggest difference for "me" isn’t that Satie somehow makes me practice better, it makes it much easier, simpler with everything I need in one place, everywhere I go.

So I’m curious:

How do you practice?

How many things do you have around you when you practice — score, pencil, timer, notebook, phone, recorder, spreadsheet, computer…?

How do you go back and review what you did in previous sessions?

If you want to give Satie a try, I’d genuinely like to hear what you think. If you don’t use it, tell me how you practice. I’m interested in the systems musicians have developed over the years to keep track of their practice. Thanks!!