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Hi @Glauben Welcome! Speaking as one who plays a bit of guitar, it is very fun, or so I think anyway. Congratulations on starting your journey. The key to being able to play well is practice, practice, practice. You want to put in a bit of time each day , not just a couple of times a week. Have fun and enjoy the journey!

Hi ，i am francis chen . a guitar lover , but i cant play ,so i wana learn it。i dont speak english but i will try my best！ good luck！ 

Hello @Judith,
Nice to meet you too! 

I’m saluting from Colombia 

I had the desire to learn to play an instrument, several years ago, I practiced the drums because I was visiting a friend who had one and that instrument is great, rather than having technique, I liked to hit all the drummers and cymbals with a nice tempo .

Music as such is so wonderful, because in a certain sense, the melody is what attracts you and gives you like that emotion that you can get to hear a single song many times in a row. The genres that I like to listen are very varied, I think that it also depends on your mood, the time, what you are doing, in short, it depends on many things, those that call my attention is rock, rock in spanish, country, electronic, lofi, deep house, symphonies, sonatas, melodies.
Lately I have been listening melodies, of the concentration and relaxation type, that clear my mind.

I haven’t taken yet any music course in Coursera, would you suggest one Judith ?

In this time the melodies have been my most recursive music to listen, there is an instrument that I have found very good listen to, the hang drum or handpan.

I attached one melody that i like and share with kind to all of you.

I send happy month to everyone and that keep fullfil all the dreams and desire goals . 

Cheers to the distance, and i hope you participate in the Music forum too 

@Luis Gerardo Ayala B. , it is so good to see you again and learn more about you. I enjoyed your music example very much. The different sounds of the handpan  combined with the harp is beautiful and unique sounding.

Playing the drums is fun! You can put on any favorite music that you have, and play along to it. It’s a difficult instrument to play by itself. But everybody loves a good drummer. Many people will want to play with you if you are good. Keep playing and having fun!

I don’t really have a course to recommend for you because I don’t know what aspect of music you would be interested in. Do you want to compose a song? Do you just want to listen and learn about some interesting music? Do you want to learn how to play guitar? There are so many different courses here. There are also many people who have taken these courses. I wonder if somebody else can recommend a good course for you?

I think it’s wonderful that you listen to such a variety of music. I do too. There is music for every mood and almost every situation I find myself in. When I cook supper, I love to play songs that I could sing along to. When I just want to relax, I would listen to a Mozart Sonata. When  I exercise I need music with a loud, strong beat...so I completely agree with you here! Thanks for posting, hope to see you often here.😀

Hi y’all. I am from the western USA. I play guitar a bit and lately I have been very into the blues as a form. The following clip, Slidin’ Delta, is from one of my current favorite players, a Dutchman named Hans Theessink. I hope you enjoy it …

@misterbean lovely lyrics indeed, thank you for sharing these.

Hi @joebas Jazz is awesome, I was, for a couple of years anyway, a jazz guitar major in college. I know everyone puts down theory and says how hard it is, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was as if someone had given me the keys to the universe.

And I, too, am using the lockdown time currently to practice guitar more.

Nice to meet you.

hi    nice to meet you all! i’m from richmond, virginia, usa. 

i sing and play piano, uke, and guitar. i’ve been writing songs for the past few years and finally grew the confidence to start sharing them last year. this is one of my favorites i’ve written:

they’re very simple - just vocals and one instrument - so this year i’ve been learning more about music production and music theory to try to compose more complex arrangements and develop a fuller sound. although it’s been harder to focus during the pandemic, the extra time at home has provided the opportunity to deep dive, and i feel very lucky for that.

berklee’s courses on coursera have been so incredibly helpful. i’m not the most patient person - there are so many things to know and i want to know them all at once - so the structure and assignments have ensured that i really understand each topic before moving onto the next. i’ve completed songwriting: writing the lyrics, the art of music production, and developing your musicianship. i’m currently enrolled in the technology of music production, the art of vocal production, developing your musicianship ii, and guitar for beginners. feel free to ask me about any of the courses if you’re considering taking them :) 

i make music as an act of catharsis and comfort. music has held my hand through every dark walk of life and my goal is to create something that can do that for listeners.

my favorite artist at the moment is grimes. i have so much respect for her mastery of every level of the process - she writes and produces all of her work. i aspire to do that. this is one of my favorites from her new album: 

i hope you’re all hanging in there during these strange times. happy to bask in the power of music with you 

Hi @miranda.rose Welcome. Thank you for being brave and sharing one of your compositions with us, that is wonderful. And thank you for the music video, as well, it is good to know what influences people and why. I wish you the greatest success in your goals.

I am glad you have found the Berklee courses worthwhile. I have by no means taken all of them, but those I have taken have indeed been very good.

Once again, welcome here and it is nice to meet you.

@Serenissima , what a fabulous name you have chosen...”serenissima”. Obviously, serenading others is what you enjoy!  To belt out some of those famous arias feels so good! I grew up with a mother who loved Verdi. Rigoletto was as familiar to me as Twinkle Little Star is others. We listened to opera at home all the time.
My youngest son became obsessed with Mozart’s Don Giovanni and played it until he must have memorized every part. 

Did you attend the many performances your father was in? What kinds of parts did he play? What kind of a voice does he have?

My father grew up in Berlin, Germany in the early part of the 1900s. There were no movies,  no television either. He fondly remembered how the entire family would go to the opera house every Friday night and watch a complete opera. It was a very important music at that time. It also represented wealth. It was a symbol of a wealthy family to go to the opera house.

In the US, it is very expensive to go to the opera. We often have some of the finest voices performing at Lincoln Center in New York City, but it is so expensive to go that most people never go.
Is it very expensive in your country? Do all ages appreciate it?

It is a pleasure to meet you. Maybe you could start a thread about an opera.

@Judith : Thank you very much for your help on how to write or compose music using the “String Quartet”. I’ll tell you my work using them as soon as it has completed. :)

Hello 

I'm Dotty from Kenya 

I love listening to Music, by favorite genre is acapella. 

I want to learn about the theoretical part of music. Glad to be here