For the kitchen and porch guitar. For the yard and nature bayan or accordion.
To not torment the neighbors with loud music for kitchen gatherings better and soulful guitar. In the apartment it is better to play in the kitchen. Because there is no upholstered furniture that muffles the sound and destroys the acoustics. But even pop, acoustic guitars, with metal strings And large Dreadnought and Jumbo hulls play the button accordion in terms of sound volume. Just because the guitar is a stringed instrument, and the button accordion is reed.
The guitar is older than the button accordion or accordion more than 1000 years. Bayan and accordion are almost identical instruments. In Europe, the button accordion is called button accordion. The classic accordion has a piano keyboard. In Europe, such an accordion is called piano straps. In France the button accordion is more common. The button accordion has a different performance technique than the piano.
Similarities and differences between bayan and accordion
- Left keyboard is the same
- The right button accordion keyboard allows you to play complex parts
- Accordion drawbar system provides rich accordion sound
A little history of the accordion
The name and instrument accordion was invented in Europe about 150 years ago. IN based name word chord, triad for song accompaniment. Apparently. The first accordions were used for accompaniment church choirs . If the church was not expensive and bulky organ, or an organist who could play it. Could accompany enough loud instrument, With ready chords. on which it was possible easy to learn to accompaniment.
String musical instruments
String strings- violin and cello- Sound extraction - conducting with a bow with rough horsehair along the string
- Sound volume is high I'm at the expense of the bow
- Continuity, melodiousness of sound - yes, is determined by the length of the bow draw along the string
- game reception. Solo, non-accompanying parts are played on the violin.
- Opportunity for the player sing at the same time - no
Stringed plucked- guitar
- Sound extraction - pinch fingers along the strings
- Sound volume - fading after string plucking, amplified by the electronics on electric guitars.
- Continuity, melodiousness of sound - no achieved by using electronics. Electric guitars can make violin sounds and play solo parts.
- . Several strings can sound at the same time.
- Opportunity for the player sing at the same time
Reed wind musical instruments
For those familiar with jazz music. bayan and accordion by the principle of sound extraction most of all reminiscent of a saxophone. Only the saxophone has one reed, but the button accordion or accordion has many.One tongue for all sounds- saxophone, clarinet
- Sound extraction - vibrations of the tongue when air passes through it, which blows playing. In the saxophone, the reed is bamboo cane. Sounds various heights are taken with the help of the lips of the player. The copper part amplifies the sound, and the valves help the sound extraction.
- The sound volume is large due to the tongue, additionally reinforced with copper pipe
- determined by the amount of air in the lungs of the player
- Polyphony, playing chords - not the main reception of the game. Solo, non-accompanying parts are played on the saxophone.
- Opportunity for the player sing at the same time - no
The reed of the saxophone is attached to the mouthpiece tool below. In the photo there are two mouthpieces - they look like black whistles. One mouthpiece with attached reed, one spare
Many tongues, each sound has its own tongue - bayan, accordion, accordion
- Sound production - vibrations of reeds when air passes through them, that blow furs. valves covered keystrokes direct air to desired tongue.
- Sound volume - high due to reeds
- Continuity, melodiousness of sound - yes, determined by the air supply in the instrument bellows
- Polyphony, playing chords - the main method of playing. Several reeds can sound at the same time.
- Opportunity for the player sing at the same time
On the right side are four octaves of 12 semitones - 48 votes. On the left side there are about twenty notes for chords and about fifteen for basses - 35 votes.
In addition, even accordions entry level two-voiced. It's like 12 string guitar . There are two strings for one note. And in the accordion one note two voices. Accordions and professional button accordions come in three, four, and even five-voice versions. A register system allows you to select up to 15 different voices with one key.
On the button accordion you can force sound a few notes of an octave. By pressing several keys at the same time on the right. A special accompaniment mechanism on the left. Allows play chords (triads) with just one key.
One button accordion can accompany a whole choir of voices. One button accordion can play three guitar parts at the same time. Left side. 1 bass guitar and 2 rhythm guitar. Right side. 3 Solo guitar.
bayan and accordion modern instruments , which combine
- Almost saxophone sound
- Ability to play complex games
- Ease primary education accompaniment
- Ability to sing at the same time
- Now they produce light compact button accordions and accordions weighing about 4 kg
- Many have cars and when leaving for nature, it doesn’t matter what to carry in the trunk
- For tourist trips where weight matters better choose guitar
Learning to accompany a song on the button accordion or accordion is no more difficult than on the guitar
The abundance of buttons on the button accordion should not cause a feeling of overcomplexity. Many buttons are made just to facilitate the game. Many of the buttons are duplicates. If you look at the keyboard while the accordion player is playing. You can see that many buttons are pressed by themselves.The most common bayans with the right keyboard three, four, five rows keys. Only the first three rows of keys from the edge correspond to the sounds of octaves. The fourth and fifth rows are closer to the furs, duplicating. To keep finger movements tonality modulation by semitone and tone.
Right side. Solo and selected chords. 18 horizontal oblique rows from top to bottom 3 keys.
Fur account. 12 octave sounds 3 keys horizontally 4 vertically. White whole notes. Black halftones. About 4.5 octaves.
Left-hand side. Ready accompaniment. 20 horizontal oblique rows from bottom to top, 5 keys each. The central part is highlighted in white or reverse color.
7 oblique horizontal rows. Fur account.
- 1 key - bass sharps.
- 2 key - bass accompaniment.
- 3 key - major chords in the row of your bass
- 4 key - minor chords in the row of your bass
- 5 key - seventh chords in the row of your bass
- 6 key (for professional button accordions) - small seventh chords in a row
On professional button accordions, there is a switch from ready accompaniment from left to elective.
There is a false statement among beginners.
- Friends in the yard will teach you how to accompany on the guitar with chords.
- Accompanying the button accordion or accordion with chords will only be taught at a music school after mastering musical notation
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You rarely meet a rock musician who would not be distinguished by his unusual appearance and sheer eccentricity. But how else can a musician throw out the accumulated energy that is seething inside? Through creativity, demeanor, lifestyle, and of course - tools!
I would like to talk about such musicians who have unusual music in their home collections. musical instruments. Maybe some specific guitar models are calling card performer? So, before you is a selection that includes the most amazing, 15 of the strangest musical instruments.
Les Paul's Log
With the permission of Epiphone management, Les Paul could afford to work in the production shop on Sundays, using any equipment.
The result of that work was the famous Les Paul's Log (log guitar). This model was the first logical step towards solid body guitars.
When creating bass recordings, Les often used his instrument. Although many were surprised when they saw the Log, Gibson employees called it nothing more than a broom with a pickup.
Gretsch Cigar Box Bo Diddley
Before Bo Diddley's signature guitars appeared on Gretsch's production lines, famous musician did not sit idle, but created guitars for himself.
In the manufacture of the guitar, he used cigar boxes, which turned out to be quite an acceptable body and resonator. One of these guitars is in the hands of American Bandstand show host Dick Clark.
Fluffy Bass by Dusty Hill
The long-bearded couple from ZZ Top almost never parted with their Fluffy Bass fur guitars. Their creativity and extraordinary guitars have become a kind of outlet for individuality.
Staccato Drums by John Bonham
Early work collective " Led Zeppelin It is impossible not to love, and the powerful sound delivery of drummer John Bonham cannot be confused with anyone else.
Inverted Les Paul by Justin Hawkins
You can't call Hawkins' idea brilliant, how perfect will the game be on an inverted Les Paul? Unknown. But the musician is not stopped by some speculation, he believes in a dream and continues to play.
Harry Moore guitar keyboard
Moore's selfless playing on an unusual "form and saturation" guitar can be seen in the video below. The work of a musician who prefers the colorful elements of the wardrobe, which is a source of inspiration for many people, is impossible to forget.
Keyboard guitar by Jordan Rudess
Fantastic keyboard guitar Rudess - Keytar is the identification mark of the musician.
Five Heads Guitar by Rick Nielsen
Rick can be called a real lumberjack in music - he beats the sound out of his "gorynych" to the fullest. One head is good, but five is just fine!
Giant Drum Tommy Lee
When we are talking about the drums, the name Tommy immediately comes to mind with his unimaginably huge drum kit.
Steve Vai's heart guitar
In Vai's collection, a heart-shaped guitar in pink flowers. Clumsy Heart Steve is just an amazing creation!
Guitar Harp Andy McKee
What is a harp guitar? This is a tool with additional set strings, one of which extends beyond the fretboard. On the harp guitar, Andy performed one of his bright compositions "Into the Ocean" ("Into The Ocean").
Teuffel's Birdfish guitar by Kirk Hammett
Metallica leader Kirk preferred for a long time perform the hit song "The Judas Kiss" on his unusual guitar.
Chapman Stick Tony Levin
During the game, Levin uses an unusual bass instrument that allows you to extract an amazing sound. The musician has more than 500 albums on his conscience, where in some places he worked out the funk well with his fingers.
Quad guitar by Michael Batio Angelo
This virtuoso guitarist deftly manages to play guitars not only with 2, but also with 4 necks. The musician knows how to use two hands at once in the game. The professionalism of the performer was appreciated by many musicians, Tom Morello, and others.
42-string Picasso guitar by Pat Metheny
Pat easily embodies his ideas in different musical genres- ethno-fusion, symphony, rock, jazz. The unique style of playing distinguishes him from other guitarists - the sound of Picasso's 42-string guitar is especially impressive.
But the selection of extraordinary instruments presented above is, of course, not complete. And what do you know unusual guitars, drummers, etc.?
Keyboard musical instruments are characterized by a sound extraction system using levers controlled by keys. A set of keys arranged in a certain order is called an instrumental keyboard.
Organ - the first keyboard wind instrument
Story keyboard instruments originates in . One of the first keyboard instruments was the organ. In the first organs, sound was obtained by operating large valves. They turned out to be rather inconvenient and rather quickly the valves were replaced with levers, also quite impressive in size. In the 11th century, levers were replaced by wide keys that could be pressed by hand. Comfortable narrow keys, characteristic of modern organs, appeared only in the 16th century. So the organ turned into a keyboard wind musical instrument.
Clavichord - the first stringed keyboard instrument
The first clavichords were invented in the period from the 14th to the 16th century, more exact dates, unfortunately, are not known to historians. The device of the medieval clavichord resembled a modern piano. It is characterized by a quiet, soft sound, so the clavichord was rarely played for a large audience. In addition, it is quite compact in size, and therefore often used for home music making and was very popular in rich houses. Created specifically for the clavichord musical works Baroque composers: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.
Harpsichord
The harpsichord first appeared in Italy in the 14th century, even Boccaccio mentioned it in his Decameron. This is a plucked stringed musical instrument, since it is characterized by sound production by plucking the string with a plectrum at the moment the key is pressed. The role of the mediator is performed by a plectrum made of a bird's feather.
There are single and double manual harpsichords. Unlike the clavichord or piano, the strings of the harpsichord are parallel to the keys, just like the piano.
Harpsichord
The harpsichord gives a weak sharp sound. It was often used in chamber music as an accompaniment to a song performance. The body of the harpsichord was richly decorated, and in general this instrument was considered rather as an element of decor.
The spinet, virginel, and muselar are varieties of the harpsichord. They have a similar principle of sound production, but different designs. These are small instruments, most often with one keyboard and a range of four octaves.
piano
It was first designed by the Italian master Bartolomeo Christofi in the early 18th century. By this period, keyboard instruments practically could not withstand the competition of strings, in particular, which was much more virtuosic and expressive. The piano became the instrument that could provide an impressive dynamic range and win the hearts of the musicians of the era.
Bartolomeo Christofi called his new keyboard instrument "playing softly and loudly", which in Italian sounded "piano e forte". Similar variations of keyboard instruments were created almost at the same time by Christopher Gottlieb Schroeter and the Frenchman Jean Marius.
The Italian piano Bartolomeo Christofi was arranged as follows: a keystroke actuates a felt hammer, the hammer, in turn, makes the string vibrate, and a special mechanism pulls the hammer back, preventing it from pressing the string and drowning out the sound. This piano had no pedals or dampers. Later, the ability to return the hammer only halfway was added, which turned out to be very convenient for performing various kinds of melismas, which are characterized by the rapid repetition of notes.
Parents who are going to send their child to a music school, as well as all art lovers, need to know that the instruments they play are divided into several types. Electric devices, such as a synthesizer, stand apart. wind instruments sounded by vibrations of air in a hollow tube. When playing the keyboard, it is necessary to activate the hammer that strikes the string. This is usually done with finger pressure.
Violin and its variants
String instruments are of two types:
Bowed; plucked.
They are very popular with music lovers. Bowed instruments often play the main melodies in orchestral pieces and symphonies. Mine modern look they got it pretty late. The violin replaced the old viola only in the 17th century. The rest of the strings were formed even later. In addition to the classical violin, there are other varieties of this instrument. For example, baroque. It often performs works by Bach. There is also a national Indian violin. On the...
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The guitar is one of the most famous instruments in the world and probably the most beloved. This is an instrument with a melodic sound, which can be used not only as an accompaniment to a singer, but also as a solo instrument.
The guitar is a stringed plucked musical instrument, one of the most widespread in the world. It is used as an accompanying instrument in many musical styles. It is the main instrument in such styles of music as blues, country, flamenco, rock music. The word "guitar" comes from the fusion of two words: the Sanskrit word "sangita" which means "music" and the Old Persian "tar" which means "string". And this name perfectly reflects the essence of the instrument. The musician strikes the strings and the guitar begins to sing.
Resonator guitar or resophonic guitar - acoustic guitar The sound of which is produced by one or more spun metal cones (resonators) in place of a wooden pulpit canopy (guitar top/face). The resonator guitars were...
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Classification by playing technique Stringed bowed musical instruments Stringed plucked musical instruments Percussion stringed musical instruments
Instruments whose source of sound are strings, and the sound itself is achieved by vibrating them, are called strings. Today there are a great many of them, but the very first was the cithara - the ancient Greek variety of the lyre, which was popular with the Greeks. Its prototype was a bow for hunting: when a bowstring was pulled over it, a characteristic fading sound was heard. Initially, one string was stretched on the cithara, but over time, the Greeks began to use several strings of different thicknesses, and all were stretched with different strength, allowing you to get sounds of different pitches. From that moment, stringed musical instruments received an impetus to further development.
Classification by game technique
The predominant classification criterion is the way the sound is extracted (“starting” the vibrations of the string). Yes, they distinguish...
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According to reference books, stringed musical instruments (chordophones), according to the method of sound production, are divided into bowed ones (for example, violin, cello, gidjak, kemancha); plucked (harp, harp, guitar, balalaika); percussion (various kinds of cymbals); percussion keyboards (piano); plucked keyboards (harpsichords).
Below are the most known varieties stringed musical instruments.
Violin, 4-string bowed musical instrument. The highest in sound in the violin family, which also includes viola and cello. Arose from the improvement folk instruments. IN classical form took shape in the work of northern Italian violin makers 16-18 centuries, which in particular included: A. and N. Amati, J. Guarneri, A. Stradivari and others.
In this regard, a few words about the above masters:
Amati (Amati)-family Italian masters stringed instruments. Ancestor-Andrea (born around 1520, died around 1580...
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Home > Musical Instruments Stringed Musical Instruments
In the class of acoustic instruments, strings are the most common. This is due to the demand for them from all consumer groups. Their application is universal: concert hall(in ensembles and solo), for home music-making and in field conditions.
In the assortment of stringed instruments, the leading role belongs to plucked instruments, which is explained by their small weight and dimensions, satisfactory sound range, expressive timbre, high level reliability and maintainability.
Plucked instruments are distinguished by the number of strings, the sound range, the intervals between the sounds of open strings, the shape of the body, the exterior finish, and the design of the main components.
Plucked instruments include: guitars, balalaikas, domras, mandolins, various national instruments(gusli, bandura, cymbals, etc.).
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String musical instruments - list
Since ancient times, people have learned to extract musical notes with a stretched bowstring. Later, our ancestors guessed to attach strings to various boxes, and so mandolins, lutes, psaltery and other musical inventions appeared. In our ordered list of stringed musical instruments you will find all the varieties that interest you.
String instruments
Violin; Alto; Cello; double bass; Rebec (an old version of the violin); Sarangi; Rebab; Erhu; Kamancha; Ligerica.Stringed plucked instruments
Guitar; Balalaika; Lute; Domra; Harp; Kitarron; Bazookas; Zither; Charango; Ukulele; Kantele (looks like a harp); Ekin; Pipa (a kind of lute); Saung-gawk (looks like a harp); Krar (looks like a harp); Walikha; Sitar; Deca.Percussion string instruments
Hammer cymbals; Harpsichord (clavinet, spinet); piano; Clavichord.0 0
Picasso guitar (The Picasso Guitar)
The Picasso guitar is a strange musical instrument created in 1984 by Canadian string luthier Linda Manzer for jazz guitarist Patrick Bruce Metheny. It is a harp guitar with four necks, two resonator holes and 42 strings. The instrument was named because of its resemblance to those depicted on famous paintings(1912-1914), the so-called analytical cubism of Pablo Picasso.
Nikelharpa
Nickelharpa is a traditional Swedish stringed musical instrument, the first mention of which dates back to about 1350. A typical modern nyckelharpa has 16 strings and 37 wooden keys that slide under the strings. A short bow is used to play. The sound produced by this instrument is similar to the sound of a violin, only with more resonance.
glass harmonica
The glass harmonica is a rather unusual musical instrument, consisting of several...
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Basic information
The guitar is a stringed plucked musical instrument, one of the most widespread in the world. It is used as an accompanying instrument in many musical styles, as well as a solo classical instrument. It is the main instrument in such styles of music as blues, country, flamenco, rock music and many forms. popular music. Invented in the 20th century, the electric guitar had a profound effect on popular culture.
A guitar player is called a guitarist. A person who makes and repairs guitars is called a guitar luthier.
Device
Main parts
The guitar is a body with a long, flat neck called a "neck". The front, working side of the neck is flat or slightly convex. Strings are stretched along it, fixed at one end on the body, with the other at the end of the fretboard, which is called the “head” or “head” of the fretboard.
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The guitar is loved by all generations and, probably, there is no place left where it would not be played. It sounds everywhere - in classical, in jazz, in blues, rock, in flamenco and in the author's song. Varieties of this musical instrument - classical guitar, flamenco guitar, Russian seven-string, electric guitar, electric acoustic guitar, samba, western, twelve-string, Hawaiian, bass guitar and many more. Most ancient image Scientists have discovered guitars on clay tablets in Mesopotamia that date back to the second millennium BC. They depict musicians holding musical instruments that are very similar to a guitar. These instruments have an oblong hollow body and a long neck with stretched strings. The case was apparently made from dried pumpkin,...
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When this amazing musical instrument appeared, where is the birthplace of the guitar and who gave it such a name - many instrument lovers ask these questions.
The guitar is truly unique tool, because it is used in almost all musical styles. This tool has many varieties, each of which is good in its own way.
Where did the guitar come from
The first mention of a stringed instrument can be found in documents dating back to the third millennium of our era. Also, the image of the guitar of that time was found on Mesopotamian clay bas-reliefs. Similar instruments were played by the ancient Egyptians and Hindus. The Romans and Greeks also had their own guitar, called the cithara.
Birthplace of the first guitar
String plucked instrument with a neck appeared in antiquity. But until 1470, such instruments had little resemblance to the current guitar. But after that date, the guitar began to look like a modern...
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Some parents believe that there is no difference in what musical instrument their child will learn in a children's music school. The main thing is that he will learn classical music and the rest is unimportant. There are other cases when all the places for the instrument of interest are already taken and parents are forced to choose a specialty from what is left. I hope that the material below will allow parents to realize the importance of this issue and take a more responsible approach to choosing which musical instrument their child will play.
All musical instruments can be divided into:
- Universal
- Soloists
- Auxiliary
This division is conditional, so let's assume that it is made in relation to the main function of a musical instrument.
The versatility of a musical instrument lies in the fact that, for example, it allows you to play various music on it, you can play both works and individual parts on it, it can be used both for solo performances and for playing in a particular ensemble or orchestra . Universal musical instruments include:
- Keyboards: piano, grand piano
- Strings: guitar, violin, cello
Solo musical instruments are designed for playing solo parts, i.e. they are not played by accompaniment, intervals and chords:
- Wind instruments: flute, trumpet, oboe, bassoon
Auxiliary musical instruments are used, as a rule, only for playing as part of an ensemble or orchestra:
- Percussion musical instruments
As I noted earlier, you can play accompaniment on a universal instrument, but not on a solo instrument. The ability to play accompaniment has a significant advantage, since the performer can also sing. You can sing to the accompaniment of piano, guitar, balalaika. But when playing the violin, for example, you won’t be able to sing. That is, from this position, the violin is inferior in versatility to the piano, guitar and balalaika. In practice, this means that if you want to hear how your child will play and sing romances, then the option with violin and wind instruments is no longer needed. Someone may consider that the possibility of singing is not an argument, but I believe that singing is not only health and ear development, but also a very useful skill that can be used all your life: to sing songs for yourself, for friends, for parents , for a loved one, at home, indoors, camping, etc. Here we mentioned the possibility of playing a universal instrument in different places. Therefore, the mobility of the musical instrument should also be taken into account. The piano is a stationary musical instrument, and the guitar and balalaika can be easily carried and taken with you. From this position, the guitar and balalaika outperform the piano.
Think about what place and how often the musical instrument will be used by the child in the future. A musical instrument can become either unnecessary furniture or an interior item, or be with the musician all his life. Will a teenager want to play the trumpet, button accordion, balalaika, violin in a city apartment - most likely not. But playing the guitar is fine.
As for the balalaika, this universal instrument loses to the piano, guitar and violin in the field of use, since it belongs to folk musical instruments that cannot be heard in modern music. However, in the conditions of the village, the balalaika, like the accordion, has advantages over the piano and violin.
Now it is necessary to say a few words about visibility. musical theory in relation to practice. As you know, the theory is often abstract and incomprehensible until it is seen. practical application. What is the addition operation “2 + 2” for a child? Nothing until they show him 2 candies, then 2 more candies. At least he will see that there are more candies, and he already likes it. The child understands what can be seen, touched, smelled, felt in practice. Therefore, playing with toys or watching a cartoon is understandable and interesting, but sitting at home on a sunny day and looking at drawn notes, signs and symbols is incomprehensible and uninteresting by definition. At least somehow, the child can be interested only in the practical side of the theory. And in this regard, the most visual musical instrument for displaying music theory on it is piano. And now I will explain why.
Currently, music uses an equal temperament scale, in which the tuning of a musical instrument and elementary music theory are based on octaves divided into 12 identical parts - semitones. We see that the guitar has 6 strings and a lot of metal bars that are across the neck, the violin has 4 strings, the balalaika has 3 strings, and the button accordion has a lot of buttons. Where are these 12 parts? The piano keyboard is designed in such a way that 7 white and 5 black keys just form an octave, and the distance between any adjacent keys is equal to a semitone, which in total forms the 12 parts (semitones) of interest to us. Thanks to this one-to-one correspondence, the foundations of music theory are easier and more clearly demonstrated on musical instruments with a keyboard. piano type- piano, grand piano. Music theory is mathematics, i.e. to build the most complex elements in music, it is enough to know certain quantities and calculate them well. Using a piano keyboard to perform such calculations is very easy because we can see the keys and we can see the relative distances between them. But it is very difficult to perform calculations, for example, on a guitar, because there are 6 strings and a large number of parallel frets is not visual. That is, to build something on the piano, you just need to count, and on other musical instruments, you will need to constantly translate the tuning system of the instrument into the theoretical system of 12 semitones and vice versa. To understand the complexity of this, ask the musician, for example, to show all the C notes on the instrument. It will take 5-7 seconds for a beginner pianist, and 5 minutes for a guitarist. At the same time, he will count something hard, move his fingers, and in the end it may turn out that he still made a mistake somewhere. The violinist has no visual cues at all and has to play by ear. Therefore, the piano is the most convenient and visual musical instrument in terms of the practical application of solfeggio. What does it mean? This means that, ceteris paribus, after the end of the nursery music school theoretical training will be the best pianists. It does not matter if, after graduating from a music school, a teenager quits music lessons. But, if a graduate wants to continue to play music, for example, learn to play the synthesizer, improvise and compose music, make arrangements and organize a home recording studio, then the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of pianists will look much more thorough than those who studied playing on other musical instruments. The difference will be about the same as between the programmer and the user. The programmer can understand new technologies and create new programs, and the user can only use what is already there.
I gave this example so that you understand that, other things being equal, perspective teaching a child to play a particular musical instrument different. It's like choosing a profession - if there is an opportunity, then you want to study a promising and well-paid profession, and not one that will not be particularly needed either now or in 30 years. From this point of view "piano" - the most promising specialty in teaching music. In addition, the piano is a good foundation for learning to play other musical instruments, that is, it will be easier for a pianist, ceteris paribus, to master playing other musical instruments. Why? Because after mastering a complex subject, it is easier to master a less complex subject than vice versa.
For comparison, take learning to play the piano and learning to play the classical guitar. When parents force a child to study music, and he wants to go play with the guys, relax or watch a movie, then he doesn’t care what he plays, the piano, guitar or violin. The child also does not care how much more difficult it is to play one or another musical instrument than another - he does not like the very fact of having to play music. Although he may understand that 5 or 7 years is the difference. But learning to play piano is much more difficult than learning to play guitar. Peers may admire the strumming of 3 chords on the guitar, but playing the piano requires much more. Therefore, after graduating from a music school, a pianist and a guitarist will have different knowledge base and different potentialities. The pianist will have a “one-story brick house of knowledge”, and the guitarist will have a “one-story wooden house knowledge." big difference no, but the first, if desired, can build a house much higher than the second.
If, after graduating from a children's music school, a guitarist wants to learn how to play the piano, then he will have to study and learn even more than when he was playing the guitar. And for a pianist, learning to play the guitar will seem like an easy walk compared to what he has already gone through. For example, after graduating from a children's music school in the piano class, I completed the specialty “classical guitar” in 2.5 years (instead of 5), and at the same time, I frankly admit, I studied in a very relaxed way.
Suppose that the child went to the 1st grade of a general education and music school at the same time - at the age of 7. This means that the guitarist will graduate from a music school at the age of 12, and the pianist at the age of 14. Since immediately after graduating from a music school you often do not want to study music, we will add 1 year for rest. Suppose that during this year a teenager realized that he wanted to learn to play another instrument - a guitarist on the piano, and a pianist on the guitar. If a guitarist goes to a music school at 13 and a pianist at 15, then theoretically they should graduate at 20, that is, in the army or college. But on the practical side of the issue, the chances of early graduation from a pianist are much higher than those of a guitarist, because he and general training better, and learning to play the guitar is much easier than the piano. That is, the pianist has big chance learn another musical instrument before graduation, but the guitarist doesn't.
Now suppose that in the process of studying at a children's music school, a pianist and a guitarist became interested in composing music. After graduating from the children's music school, they decided to continue selfeducation and compose pop music. How will their skills help them in this matter?
If you look at elementary theory music, it is almost entirely based on the piano. In relation to other musical instruments, it has certain abbreviations and limitations. Of course, the pianist won't be able to play the guitar part. better guitar player, but in many cases this is not necessary. The guitarist also in many cases does not need to record the keyboard part, and from this point of view we observe, as it were, equality. But the synthesizer is electronics and the most powerful musical instrument in terms of functionality and sound, which provides the pianist with such opportunities that the guitarist will not have, even if he buys a dozen digital guitar processors and rhythm machines. A pianist can use a synthesizer to create parts of any instrument and even an entire piece, but a guitarist cannot. The guitarist will only be able to create a drum part into the computer and record guitar parts bass guitars and electric guitars. Agree that the difference in their capabilities is palpable. If we talk about arranging, then the difference will become generally huge, because the main instrument of an arranger is a synthesizer or a MIDI keyboard + computer, and it is much easier for a pianist to master a synthesizer than for a guitarist.
Now let's look at contemporary music. How is it characteristic? Building from the rhythm and synthesized sounds - again the pianist-keyboardist is in the black. Adding here the “modern popular music format” it becomes clear that the synthesizer is used everywhere, but the electric guitar is art song, heavy music and performances in clubs. Keyboardist for solo performance just turn on the auto accompaniment and play solo right hand, and the guitarist will have to first create an accompaniment file.
Summing up, we can say that the theoretical musical foundation and practical perspectives the pianist has much more variety and realism in our time than those who have chosen a different musical instrument.
Another important point concerns the fact that sometimes the child shows interest not in the piano, but in other musical instruments. Here you need to think about everything well, because a musical instrument is perceived by a child as a toy and whether it is worth paying attention to is a question. I remember that as a child I really liked the accordion and really disliked the piano. Therefore, my mother also considered the option of my learning to play the accordion. However, the director of the music school was amazed and said: “What are you doing? Piano only!” Many years have passed since then, and only now I truly understood that at the age of 5 for me did the right thing for me choice.
When a child begins to study music, it is not known what the outcome will be: he will quit classes in a year or after graduating from a music school, or he will go to School of Music or he becomes a drummer. But, if the question is that the child should just study music, then the choice of the specialty “piano” will be one of the best options. If the pianist wants, then he will be able to easily master playing the electric guitar, and the bass guitar, and the drum set, because the knowledge gained during the training will allow him to do this.
