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Old 03-18-2013, 10:03 PM   #6 (permalink)
Afro Blue
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I think music is the same independent of the instrument, if your thinking about the chords your playing and how the melody moves on top.

you could play what you play on the piano on other instruments, and you should be able to do a note to note transposition once you get trough things like the individual technique of each instrument.

if by loosing piano skills you mean that you will learn new patterns for your motor skills to go after i bealive its good, unless you make a living out of it, where there isn't really much space for creative freedom until you get your pay check.

Other than that, less is more in getting trough the basics of producing sounds out of new instruments, you have technology that allows you to shape your ideas and visualize how you want things to sound.

it might be strange to some, but its well known that if you learn to visualize what you are playing you can practice without an instrument, that's why its great to really know the names of the notes you are playing and how they relate to others at any given moment.

it woks great if you allow yourself to understand progressions and then do an improvised melody on top, if you can really hear what you play then you should be enjoying each individual note and time and practice will shape this free time with a mastery of a flow of notes individual and unique to who you are.
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