For early success try that Chinese piece “Tun-In”.
Then try to imitate a cat’s meow.
Pretty fair description of what the (br)asshats at Avid have been doing to Sibelius as well. I think those of us who have been using Sibelius for a long time are just waiting to see what Steinberg comes up with - when Avid laid off the original British programming team, Steinberg snapped them up directly and put them to work.
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You have my sympathy; I took a few guitar lessons, taught myself the rest.
Then I bought a violin to teach myself again.*
Ended up selling it. A better violin might help, with some basic instruction. I was kind of OK with an upright bass prior, even with no training, but it’s the small scale that kills any relative pitch!
to be fair, I had a pretty good career at that point, and less free time left over to dedicate.*
**To things that were not video games or running.
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The cat didn’t like that at all.
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There’s a guy on ebay who sells small fretboard overlays for violins, so you don’t have to torture yourself and others playing sour notes for years. This was my big obstacle, after a month of regular practice (and I already knew mandolin scales) I got a handle on right hand technique, but I just couldn’t bear to listen to myself always sharp or flat.
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Cute!
I’m reminded of a Lo-Jack ad on the radio in years gone by. It started with a car alarm going off. The upshot of the commercial was:
"Do you hear that sound? What did you do the last time you heard a car alarm? NOTHING. Car alarms are USELESS. You need LO-JACK!"
And then, and I’m not fooling here, the guys says:
"Order now, and GET A FREE CAR ALARM."
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Yeah, it was instrument of choice because I wanted to be in an extra-curricular activity that MET during school time. Orchestra started in fourth grade, band in fifth. That was my priority. For three years. And I sucked.
One of my school friends in orchestra, whose father was a fairly well-known Armenian American musician, began the violin when he could walk. It goes without saying that a little boy who has a poster of Jasha Heifetz on his walk at home could pretty much outplay everyone, including our sweet teacher. But ever the optimist, he kept telling me I could be great if I practiced more.
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Oh god.
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With the right convolution and filtering, you can make anything sound like anything. It’s one of the basic premises of information theory.
Which isn’t to say that it’s necessarily easy. It could potentially take infinite computing power to get it to work, but it’s in principle possible to make any signal into any other signal if you find the correct mathematical transformation.
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Or there is what you see with Suzuki kids all the time, putting tape on the right places. In a way I think that’s better because the tone will be better and more vocal (frets make every note sound like an open string), and your hand will have better odds of being in the right position. You also won’t learn how to vibrate properly with frets. Of course, this only applies if you are thinking of the frets as a temporary learning tool, if you intent to always play fretted, then please ignore me.
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