I started and always anchor myself around guitar. Took some classical lessons, a bit of basic jazz and now Im taking some electric lessons (with the Commander in Chief, super happy about it). Anyway I also play bass, using some classical guitar concepts. Taught myself singing using different methods,ost recently was using Ken Tamplin (cool stuff). But aside from Classical, steel, electric and bass guitars, Ive played ukulele, hand harp, harmonica, taught myself some very early rudiments of violin and viola, once had some idea of where chords are on the keyboard, played some melodies on recorder (alto and soprano), have tinkered with a clarinet, and am learning the drums and percussions. Id say, ifbI taught a kid, Id teach them drums, singing and the piano. As long as they have a basic grasp of them, they're free to move on (Id try to encourage them to play guitar, but that would still be optional). Drums help you gain rhythm, singing helps with pitch and keys help with harmony. So ... If you have those, you're pretty much capable of filling in the blanks and learning other instruments or just do like Gentle Giant (which is what I did) learn a tiny bit about it, and then learn what you wish to play composing your way around your technical limitations. I think however, at this point learning how to use the DAW and scoring apps is pretty much an instrument itself. Edit I have decided to double down on guitar so now I focus on electric guitar (8 string with a high A), bass and drums. But hey that's how it goes, choose a goal, prioritize and don't worry if one or more instruments are gathering dust for a bit. Their time will come...
I’m a multi-instrumentalist myself. For the longest time I just focused on guitar, I always wanted to play lead but I ended up focusing on the riff rather than the music as a whole. I dabbled in bass and piano for a while, but guitar was always my primary instrument. Eventually I learnt my intervals and all my chords and bass became a bit more intuitive. It’s only been recently since I’ve gotten into drumming that I’ve been able to really enjoy playing bass since I can feel the groove a lot more and I don’t get caught up thinking about the melody. I can probably say now that guitar isn’t my primary instrument anymore. Anytime I play with guitarists I play bass and when I play guitar I think about the rhythm before anything - I tap my foot or I move my body, if I can’t feel it, it isn’t worth playing. Learning multiple instruments is totally worth it.
Guitar player that started with piano as a young kid, picked up organ, mandolin, banjo, other folk instruments as a kid too. Moved onto synthesizer around 20 and at 23 have now picked up a flute, a clarinet, didgeridoo, and some various others. I have pretty good rhythm, I enjoy playing with delays and they require tight playing. Woodwind and reeds have proved to be the toughest for me, but I absolutely love their sound and as a guitar player I enjoy the monophonic approach.
I started playing guitar. I wanted to play along to a drum beat but could never figure out drum machines (or didn't want to), and this is before having easy access to drum tracks on TH-cam. I got a cheap electronic kit and loved it. Then I thought, this is a lot of independence and in my mind piano was a similar thing, meaning one hand doing something independent of the other hand. So I started on piano. In learning piano, it actually made the guitar make sense. Then, why not bass? Now I have a boss rc505, laptop, logic pro etc - I don't have to worry about jamming with anyone because I prefer myself. Musicians are often flakey when it comes to meeting up, I just walk to my basement and its a meet up 😂
I just came across this video and everything you said is facts. Another person said very similiar things who is A LEGEND and that person was Prince. Beyonce even said it was Prince that told her if you want to be an artist you need to learn Piano(harmony, melody) and Guitar. And she took lessons in both.
Cool ideas thanks! I started learning different instruments to learn different things. Drums/percussion for time/groove/rhythm and different styles and grooves. Singing/fretless for melody and intonation. Also, piano for harmony and counterpoint. And bass to understand how the rhythm section works ... well in theory haha
Thank you and everyone in the comments for the advice! I've played flute my whole life but I've always wanted to learn a bunch of other instruments. I've taught myself a bit of piano but I also wanna learn saxophone, guitar, oboe, etc.
My advice is to learn the pentatonic major and minor scales for the solo instruments, and learn your chords for the guitar and other string instruments. If you get those down, you will go a long way! Thanks for watching.
Two insterments I recommend starting with is piano because it helps with chords and melodic and many insterments simular to piano like percussion (keyboard) is sumlar, the second one is saxophone because it helps with woodwinds and is in many styles of music, any cheap percussion insterments help to because of rhythm.
Thanks for watching. I agree about the piano totally. And I would think saxophone as a second instrument would be a great way to begin to really understand melodies. Good observations.
I have been a drummer for a good number of years, and I played a bit of bass (still a beginner and I don't have a bass atm). I want to start to play guitar, wanting to be a multi-instrumentalist for a while but I had difficulty figuring our how to start! I think this might be the exact video I was looking for!
Glad to hear it. If you dont know anything about guitar I also have several Guitar for relaxation videos on my channel to teach absolute beginners how to start playing in open D tuning. Thanks for watching.
Actually I wrote a whole book on songwriting called Lyrics and Music: music theory for the aspiring songwriter. And I have filmed several videos on that topic too. God bless!
Underrated video! This should be more known, way more!! I was taught there was something with me for being multinstrumentalist. I wasted years hiding it. Now I'm in my 40's with some instruments at home and they encourage me to play and record myself. Thank you bro. Nice vid.
Now age 12. Piano for 7 years. Violin for 4 years. French Horn, and Trumpet for 2 years now. Music Production on Logic Pro for 18 months now. Guitar for 4 months now. I don’t know where this is taking. Youngest Member of a major violin orchestra here. Play piano at a church here. This journey is fun. Instruments are like tools of our expression, music is the underlying emotion. Sometimes I can type like now. Mostly my social media managed by my dad :)
Thanks for watching. Not to shamelessly plug my own stuff. But you might find my book "Lyrics and Music: Music theory for aspiring songwriters" helpful. Look for it at amazon and barnes and noble.
When you want to record songs, but don’t have a guy for every instrument, that’s when you pucker up and play another instrument. Lol. My buddies that I hang with record music pretty regularly, and at the time of our first good song we didn’t have a guitar player. My buddy played drums, and I play bass mainly, so I picked up the guitar and started seeing what I could do. Now I play bass, guitar, and the drums all pretty well. My point of me writing this, is that if you want to be a musician, you need to be a Swiss Army knife. It Also help with understanding other musicians.
Thanks for watching. If any of you would like to see these tips in action go check out my fantastic flying frog videos all of the instruments on the recordings were played by me.
Good advice! Can you please explain what you were playing on piano at around 8:10 until about 8:28? It's hard to see what chords and notes you're playing but I like it and I'd like to learn it. The only problem is I'm horrible/very slow at reading sheet music. Tabs or straight explanations (because I know chords, chord progressions, and scales pretty well) would be helpful though.
Thanks for watching my video. I was just goofing around in the key of G using what i was taught is the mixolydian plus scale. So G, A, Bb, B, C, D, E F and G. With a boogie bass line.
@@minnixmusic So basically G blues scale without the b5 in your right hand, correct? But in your left hand I see you hit the Db (b5)...🤔 as sort of a passing note. Can you explain a little more what your left hand is doing? When I think of boogie in G I picture rocking G to D, G to E, G to D, G to E, etc.
Important, great video! Question: but isn't harmony chords? So what youre saying I think is the next step after melody is mixing melody with harmony e.g., for example on a guitar playing both chords and melody together? Otherwise I'm a bit confused
@@minnixmusic ok ,you're getting more technical, I've never heard the term counterpoint, but I'm guessing that by saying bitonal or counterpoint you mean chords or sounds that are not tritones, either less or more than three toness (1-3-5)
@@pschlosb yeah I should probably do a video on counterpoint. Basically counterpoint is when you have 2 or more melodies that technically could be independent of each other happening at the same time. Bitonal is just two notes that do not make a full triad.
I spent the last six months jumping between instruments finally landing on drums. Then this week I decided to branch out, because my goal is to make music, not perform it. So now I'm doing - 1 hour of drums - 1 hour of piano - 1 hour of singing - 1 hour of bass - 1 hour of guitar EVERY. SINGLE. DAY! Just started and I've never been happier. I feel like I'm progressing faster in each than I was just focusing on one. I work from home so I can afford to do it.
@WillyMinnix Thanks for the tips. Thought they aren't useful to me. I'm using melodics for drums and piano, rocksmith for bass and guitar. They kind of just teach all topics at once in increasing difficulty. In a way that feels like a video game.
Hi. I have question. I am beginner in playing piano. I love piano so much. But i love learning play guitar too. So can i start learning guitar with learning piano?
Is there any specific skillsets that one should start focusing and developing early to see more results other than the ones you've already mentioned? e.g. ear training, improv etc, I'm still early on in my music journey and I've picked up a piano and a guitar but still don't know what to really focus on to get the best results, and since I really wanna enroll in a music school next year I'm trying to look for the 'best' way to go at it, I know everyone's journey is different but if there ARE any specific things that could seriously improve someone's skill if they practice them diligently, what would they be?
If you're going to go to music school, memorize as best as you can your intervals. Try to memorize them by ear, have a friend play them and see if you can guess them. Also for school, spend as much time mastering sight reading as possible. Because you will need it. If you were just learning on your own and didn't want to go to school, I wouldn't put as much emphasis on sight reading, but music school will want you to be good at it. Get an old hymnal from a local used book sale, and start by writing in all the note names. Go back with a different colored pen or pencil, and write in all the intervals, so you can recognize any interval by sight instantly. Play a lot of staff wars! And then spend the rest of your time learning to improv, because most music schools are dreadfully lacking in teaching that.
@@vietzscheallagard2129 you can work on drums pretty much anywhere. But I would start with a simple hand drum and work out from there. It's cheaper that way! Lol!
@@minnixmusic True, but I like to start by going all the way rather then incrementally increasing. I guess I will go keyboard, drums, guitar, and then bass.
I started and always anchor myself around guitar. Took some classical lessons, a bit of basic jazz and now Im taking some electric lessons (with the Commander in Chief, super happy about it). Anyway I also play bass, using some classical guitar concepts. Taught myself singing using different methods,ost recently was using Ken Tamplin (cool stuff).
But aside from Classical, steel, electric and bass guitars, Ive played ukulele, hand harp, harmonica, taught myself some very early rudiments of violin and viola, once had some idea of where chords are on the keyboard, played some melodies on recorder (alto and soprano), have tinkered with a clarinet, and am learning the drums and percussions.
Id say, ifbI taught a kid, Id teach them drums, singing and the piano. As long as they have a basic grasp of them, they're free to move on (Id try to encourage them to play guitar, but that would still be optional).
Drums help you gain rhythm, singing helps with pitch and keys help with harmony. So ... If you have those, you're pretty much capable of filling in the blanks and learning other instruments or just do like Gentle Giant (which is what I did) learn a tiny bit about it, and then learn what you wish to play composing your way around your technical limitations.
I think however, at this point learning how to use the DAW and scoring apps is pretty much an instrument itself.
Edit I have decided to double down on guitar so now I focus on electric guitar (8 string with a high A), bass and drums. But hey that's how it goes, choose a goal, prioritize and don't worry if one or more instruments are gathering dust for a bit. Their time will come...
I totally agree with you. Thanks for watching!!
I’m a multi-instrumentalist myself. For the longest time I just focused on guitar, I always wanted to play lead but I ended up focusing on the riff rather than the music as a whole. I dabbled in bass and piano for a while, but guitar was always my primary instrument. Eventually I learnt my intervals and all my chords and bass became a bit more intuitive. It’s only been recently since I’ve gotten into drumming that I’ve been able to really enjoy playing bass since I can feel the groove a lot more and I don’t get caught up thinking about the melody. I can probably say now that guitar isn’t my primary instrument anymore. Anytime I play with guitarists I play bass and when I play guitar I think about the rhythm before anything - I tap my foot or I move my body, if I can’t feel it, it isn’t worth playing. Learning multiple instruments is totally worth it.
Thanks for watching. I totally agree
2022 and still helpful
Thanks so much!!
Guitar player that started with piano as a young kid, picked up organ, mandolin, banjo, other folk instruments as a kid too. Moved onto synthesizer around 20 and at 23 have now picked up a flute, a clarinet, didgeridoo, and some various others. I have pretty good rhythm, I enjoy playing with delays and they require tight playing. Woodwind and reeds have proved to be the toughest for me, but I absolutely love their sound and as a guitar player I enjoy the monophonic approach.
Thanks so much for all the nice comments.
I started playing guitar. I wanted to play along to a drum beat but could never figure out drum machines (or didn't want to), and this is before having easy access to drum tracks on TH-cam. I got a cheap electronic kit and loved it. Then I thought, this is a lot of independence and in my mind piano was a similar thing, meaning one hand doing something independent of the other hand. So I started on piano. In learning piano, it actually made the guitar make sense. Then, why not bass? Now I have a boss rc505, laptop, logic pro etc - I don't have to worry about jamming with anyone because I prefer myself. Musicians are often flakey when it comes to meeting up, I just walk to my basement and its a meet up 😂
And that Folks, is the joy and passion of being a multi instrumentalist!!! Thanks for watching!
I just came across this video and everything you said is facts. Another person said very similiar things who is A LEGEND and that person was Prince. Beyonce even said it was Prince that told her if you want to be an artist you need to learn Piano(harmony, melody) and Guitar. And she took lessons in both.
Cant argue with that. Prince was a mighty musician!
Thank you. Some great ideas for structuring my learning.
Thanks so much for watching
This is the best video I've ever seen!!!!
This video was extremely helpful, it's a shame that so few have seen it. Thank you sir!
Cool ideas thanks! I started learning different instruments to learn different things. Drums/percussion for time/groove/rhythm and different styles and grooves. Singing/fretless for melody and intonation. Also, piano for harmony and counterpoint. And bass to understand how the rhythm section works ... well in theory haha
Thank you and everyone in the comments for the advice! I've played flute my whole life but I've always wanted to learn a bunch of other instruments. I've taught myself a bit of piano but I also wanna learn saxophone, guitar, oboe, etc.
My advice is to learn the pentatonic major and minor scales for the solo instruments, and learn your chords for the guitar and other string instruments. If you get those down, you will go a long way! Thanks for watching.
@@minnixmusic thank you so much!! That’s super helpful for me to know which direction to go! 🙌🏾
You're welcome
Great playing, and thanks for the information!
Two insterments I recommend starting with is piano because it helps with chords and melodic and many insterments simular to piano like percussion (keyboard) is sumlar, the second one is saxophone because it helps with woodwinds and is in many styles of music, any cheap percussion insterments help to because of rhythm.
Thanks for watching. I agree about the piano totally. And I would think saxophone as a second instrument would be a great way to begin to really understand melodies. Good observations.
I have been a drummer for a good number of years, and I played a bit of bass (still a beginner and I don't have a bass atm). I want to start to play guitar, wanting to be a multi-instrumentalist for a while but I had difficulty figuring our how to start! I think this might be the exact video I was looking for!
Glad to hear it. If you dont know anything about guitar I also have several Guitar for relaxation videos on my channel to teach absolute beginners how to start playing in open D tuning. Thanks for watching.
@@minnixmusic Thank you for your reply! I will definitely do that. May I ask if you also have some advice to start writing songs?
Actually I wrote a whole book on songwriting called Lyrics and Music: music theory for the aspiring songwriter. And I have filmed several videos on that topic too. God bless!
I’m try to play bass also as a drummer
Underrated video!
This should be more known, way more!!
I was taught there was something with me for being multinstrumentalist. I wasted years hiding it.
Now I'm in my 40's with some instruments at home and they encourage me to play and record myself.
Thank you bro. Nice vid.
Thank you so much!
you deserve much more views man, great vid!
Now age 12. Piano for 7 years. Violin for 4 years. French Horn, and Trumpet for 2 years now. Music Production on Logic Pro for 18 months now. Guitar for 4 months now. I don’t know where this is taking. Youngest Member of a major violin orchestra here. Play piano at a church here. This journey is fun. Instruments are like tools of our expression, music is the underlying emotion. Sometimes I can type like now. Mostly my social media managed by my dad :)
Thanks for watching buddy! You can't go wrong by playing in church and using your talents for God!! Keep up the good work!
@@minnixmusic thank you ❤️
Thank you sir! currently learning songwriting/producing on guitar and piano.
Thanks for watching. Not to shamelessly plug my own stuff. But you might find my book "Lyrics and Music: Music theory for aspiring songwriters" helpful. Look for it at amazon and barnes and noble.
When you want to record songs, but don’t have a guy for every instrument, that’s when you pucker up and play another instrument. Lol. My buddies that I hang with record music pretty regularly, and at the time of our first good song we didn’t have a guitar player. My buddy played drums, and I play bass mainly, so I picked up the guitar and started seeing what I could do. Now I play bass, guitar, and the drums all pretty well. My point of me writing this, is that if you want to be a musician, you need to be a Swiss Army knife. It Also help with understanding other musicians.
Ain't that the truth! Thanks for watching.
Thx sir! Greetings from germany!!
Gluten tag! Vie ghets dir heute? Thanks for watching!
Stupid spell check: Guten Tag!
thank you
You're good👏👏🤗
Thank you, this video gave me a lot of direction of what I need to apply to my practices.
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
Great video! Very helpful for me. I am an up incoming musician who is now trying my hand at multiple instruments.
Thanks so much. I just posted a follow up video as well. Have a great day.
Amazing video! This has encouraged me to go ahead to learn multiple instruments. I’m gonna watch this again later and take notes. Thank you so much!!
Thanks so much. I'm glad it helped!
Good tips! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching. If any of you would like to see these tips in action go check out my fantastic flying frog videos all of the instruments on the recordings were played by me.
@@minnixmusic I just checked out Daphne! LOVE the beach boys vibes! Your vocal harmonies (along with every other aspect of the song) are on point!
@@EdisonGrove thank you so much! That really encourages me. If you have facebook please consider giving the FFFs a like! Thanks again and God bless!
Good advice! Can you please explain what you were playing on piano at around 8:10 until about 8:28? It's hard to see what chords and notes you're playing but I like it and I'd like to learn it. The only problem is I'm horrible/very slow at reading sheet music. Tabs or straight explanations (because I know chords, chord progressions, and scales pretty well) would be helpful though.
Thanks for watching my video. I was just goofing around in the key of G using what i was taught is the mixolydian plus scale. So G, A, Bb, B, C, D, E F and G. With a boogie bass line.
@@minnixmusic So basically G blues scale without the b5 in your right hand, correct? But in your left hand I see you hit the Db (b5)...🤔 as sort of a passing note. Can you explain a little more what your left hand is doing? When I think of boogie in G I picture rocking G to D, G to E, G to D, G to E, etc.
@@MusicWizard85 ha! I think you actually caught me making a mistake! Unless I was just walking down the chromatic scale, which I do from time to time.
Important, great video! Question: but isn't harmony chords? So what youre saying I think is the next step after melody is mixing melody with harmony e.g., for example on a guitar playing both chords and melody together? Otherwise I'm a bit confused
Harmony can be chordal, but it can also be less than chordal (e.g. bitonality) and more than chordal e.g. counterpoint.
@@minnixmusic ok ,you're getting more technical, I've never heard the term counterpoint, but I'm guessing that by saying bitonal or counterpoint you mean chords or sounds that are not tritones, either less or more than three toness (1-3-5)
@@pschlosb yeah I should probably do a video on counterpoint. Basically counterpoint is when you have 2 or more melodies that technically could be independent of each other happening at the same time. Bitonal is just two notes that do not make a full triad.
I spent the last six months jumping between instruments finally landing on drums.
Then this week I decided to branch out, because my goal is to make music, not perform it.
So now I'm doing
- 1 hour of drums
- 1 hour of piano
- 1 hour of singing
- 1 hour of bass
- 1 hour of guitar
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
Just started and I've never been happier. I feel like I'm progressing faster in each than I was just focusing on one.
I work from home so I can afford to do it.
That's awesome! I agree the more you focus on "Music" the more you get better at each individual instrument. Thanks for watching!
@WillyMinnix
Thanks for the tips. Thought they aren't useful to me.
I'm using melodics for drums and piano, rocksmith for bass and guitar. They kind of just teach all topics at once in increasing difficulty. In a way that feels like a video game.
Hi. I have question. I am beginner in playing piano. I love piano so much. But i love learning play guitar too. So can i start learning guitar with learning piano?
Hi thanks for watching! I started playing piano and guitar around the same age. So yes it is possible.
@@minnixmusic thanks for helping me😍😘
Is there any specific skillsets that one should start focusing and developing early to see more results other than the ones you've already mentioned? e.g. ear training, improv etc, I'm still early on in my music journey and I've picked up a piano and a guitar but still don't know what to really focus on to get the best results, and since I really wanna enroll in a music school next year I'm trying to look for the 'best' way to go at it, I know everyone's journey is different but if there ARE any specific things that could seriously improve someone's skill if they practice them diligently, what would they be?
If you're going to go to music school, memorize as best as you can your intervals. Try to memorize them by ear, have a friend play them and see if you can guess them. Also for school, spend as much time mastering sight reading as possible. Because you will need it. If you were just learning on your own and didn't want to go to school, I wouldn't put as much emphasis on sight reading, but music school will want you to be good at it. Get an old hymnal from a local used book sale, and start by writing in all the note names. Go back with a different colored pen or pencil, and write in all the intervals, so you can recognize any interval by sight instantly. Play a lot of staff wars! And then spend the rest of your time learning to improv, because most music schools are dreadfully lacking in teaching that.
@@minnixmusic Thank you so much!
Est ce que la guitare rentre facilement dans un rectum?
Should you play the bass before the guitar? Or the piano/drums before that?
Thanks for watching. I think it is better to start with the piano, then move onto guitar and then bass.
@@minnixmusic Thank you so much for your answer! And another question, where would you fit drums? Or is three enough?
@@vietzscheallagard2129 you can work on drums pretty much anywhere. But I would start with a simple hand drum and work out from there. It's cheaper that way! Lol!
@@minnixmusic True, but I like to start by going all the way rather then incrementally increasing. I guess I will go keyboard, drums, guitar, and then bass.
Hey. How's it been since then?