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i stopped taking piano lessons when i was like 12, so it takes me a really long time to actually learn how to play a song using sheet music, but i do still know all the major and minor chords. Ultimate Guitar has an app and website with the chords to pretty much every single song ever. presuming someone's also singing along, it's super easy to fudge sounding like u can fr play the piano. makes you feel musical and spontaneous even if you lack the discipline to practice an instrument!
Apr 8, 2024
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and ask any guitar friends to teach you basic chords. I learnt guitar by having my dad teach me some basic chords, then I learnt the entire The Kooks first record through tabs, and then Laura Marling’s Alas I Cannot Swim. And from that I basically learnt all the chords you need, and to finger pick and strum in different patterns. If something was a little more complicated id look up YouTube videos of people playing stuff to see what their hands were doing. I learnt how to play covers on piano purely from YouTube tutorials. And I’m literally a musician! its maybe not like the way to learn “properly” but it is the way that worked for me! I’ve linked Ultimate Guitar tabs website here which is where I still get my tabs for covers from 🤘🏼
Apr 22, 2024
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i’ve also been trying to learn guitar for a while, and while it may not be the easiest way to do things, the most engaging thing i’ve found is learning songs i reallyyy like – so i’ll really stick it out – and then also making my own songs with both chords that i know and chords i don’t eg. just randomly placing / moving ur fingers around until something sounds nice. while you might not learn and memorise every chord ever this way, it keeps you actually playing the guitar (even if it‘s a bit shit) + i‘ve come out of it with some of my favourite melodies!
May 25, 2025
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i stay up late a lot of the time for no reason other than to keep the doors of the day open to potential, but i’ve started taking melatonin gummies and magnesium (also preferably gunmies) at like 10pm and just putting myself to bed and it actually rocks. it does not make me feel like i wasted my night the way i feared it would and my future self is always happy i did it
if the m&m gummies don’t cut it i also recommend a weighted blanket and some background noise (i like podcasts about things that are only marginally interesting to me. last night i learned about the economics of bubble tea idk)
Sep 28, 2024
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gotta keep the lungs guessing….
Apr 9, 2024
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very scary but essential if we ever want to break free of the prison of dating apps….. can’t keep sitting on tinder while all the hotties pass you by….. step 2 is saying something to them but we r working our way up to that
May 11, 2024