#that not how you learn piano!

[togoldlilya]

The piano is over here

beautiful music starts filling up the room as her fingers delicately fly over the keys, expertly turning the page when she reaches the end. "tsuna tsuna natto!! ikura shouyu!!" the boy seated next to her exclaims eyes wide in wonder.

"that was nothing, here let me teach you something simple" she brushes off his praise, placing his hands on the keyboard herself. "places your fingers here and follow which ones i press down" she instructs before pressing a series of keys.

"shake" he sounds determined as he slowly copies what she just played. nodding she plays the same thing again which he more quickly plays. moving to a different tune he struggles to move quite as gracefully as she does.

"very good! now we'll play a basic song, just keep following me" he blushes slightly at her casual praise not expecting it. he struggles to repeat what she played, pouting heavily. she suddenly gets up, going to stand behind him. she places her hands over his, leaning over his shoulder as she does, hair tickling his bare arm. she plays the same bar again, pressing his fingers into the keys but he can't focus. she smells so good, like lavender and cherries, making his brain fuzzy. "are you listening to me toge?" he shakes his head, snapping out of his daze. turning to look at her he can't help but stare.

"huh?" he intelligently says, mind far far away by now. raising a hand she turns his face back to the keyboard. playing the same bar yet again and toge still cant focus. how can she expect him to learn with her so close to him like this! touching hands, soft hair draped over him, softly humming how the tune is supposed to go. how is he supposed to think about anything but her? he feels his heart fluttering in his chest at her actions unable to move away from her.

"we'll work on this later" her low voice makes him shiver, straight up squeaking when she sneakily presses a peck against his cheek. she's gone before he can even comprehend what had just happened, wishing she had stayed there, close to him, forever.

[mydarlinglaszlo]

they're holding hands! for the last time (on this documentary) 🥺💕

[weirderscience]

been thinking about deviantart lately and i cant help but remember during the later years of the site's popularity where people would go out of their way to find what was (in retrospect, very clearly) art made by literal children and shit on it and cyberbully the kid about it. what the fuck was that. even shit that was like, well made was subject to overly critical bullshit about being unrealistic or a mary sue or whatever. its frankly bizarre to me as an adult that anyone ever tolerated this culture or even like, participated in it and -wasn't- a child themselves. or even saw it and didnt feel the need to say "hey what youre doing is really fucking stupid and pathetic"

[whoopseydaisy]

MYTH + sunsets

The Girl Who Painted Death, MYTH: Side One // WHOEVER FELT MOVED TO SPEAK, MYTH: Side Two

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question time, this time music related, specifically for people who play any instruments*: When playing a song**, do you normally memorize the song and then choose what to play from a variety of songs you've memorized how to play, or do you play by sight-reading sheet music? edited to add: my mom always called it sight reading, but apparently sight reading is just reading sheet music for the first time as you play it? I mean, I do that too, but I thought it meant playing any music as you read it, even if you've read it before, as long as you haven't like specifically memorized it *probably besides instruments where you play a chord at a time like guitar or ukulele but I might be limited by my own skill level on those so idk

**not a song you wrote yourself or are improvising, a preexisting piece of music written by someone else

[virsancte]

good days aren't easy to come by

[askblueandviolet]

Can you play any other musical instruments?

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[mollypaup]

It makes me really sad when I hear people say they could never learn something. It might take longer than most people but I do genuinely think anyone could learn anything.

[copia]

didn't get the chance to hear the future is a foreign land in the credits so i just listened for the first time and apparently haven't cried enough to ghost in the past 24 hours

[abrahamvanhelsings]

somewhat baffling to ask for a small alarm clock as a gift and receive what appear to be circular knitting needles when i am not a regular knitting person and i have not expressed the desire to become such

[cavalierclavier]

I really like your comic. Out of curiosity, what are your art inspirations?

that's a really good question with a slightly difficult answer because i tend to absorb bits and pieces of any media i like into my art style lol

(this got a little long, so answer under the cut)

if i go far back enough, i think my first real taste of comics as a medium was Cassandra Jean's graphic novel adaptations of Miss Peregrine

(images copied from her announcement of the second book)

looking back on it now, the overall style is loose and sketchy, but still readable (which are not necessarily words i'd use for my own style lmao) but there's the use of value and solid black that i still strive for. the style is also very manga-esque, but i definitely picked up a few things on drawing faces and action from these books

(her more recent style is a lot cleaner and a lot more graphically complex, but there's still an emphasis on interesting, readable shapes)

there's also Peter Nevins, who did the original cover for the Hadestown concept album (and the cover for the NYTW recording? correct me if i'm wrong). he also did a few covers for Anaïs Mitchell's other works

(i actually drew a piece based on that second cover a few years ago)

he primarily works in linocut prints, which is a medium that kinda forces you to think in terms of value. while i mostly use the stuff he's done for Anaïs Mitchell as an example, i'm also fond of the original work on his shop

over the years though, Drawfee has probably been the most consistent source of inspiration? it feels a little weird to call them that, especially considering the fact most people know them as a comedy show, but i've been using their speed draw videos as background noise for ages now

i'm really fond of the atmosphere that they've created with their channel, and it's been so fun watching and growing in art skill alongside them (and sometimes having my vocab for the week be utterly destroyed by one of their bits)

there's definitely way more people i could name (CanisAlbus and asmeesh here on tumblr) and a huge pile of webcomic artists (Tracy Butler, Meg Syverud, Sarah Webb, Petra Nordlund—there's so many) but this post is already unreadable so i'll stop there lol

thank you for the ask, and thanks for reading Outsiders :D!!

[solelyblackhole]

Okay so I’m going off anon for this because I’m sure everyone knows who I am…I mean who else on here is an absolutely massive BH fan AND openly plays the baritone…

the first key concept of any brass instrument is ‘buzzing’. It’s kinda stupid sounding to explain, but the instruments won’t make any real sound if you don’t do it. You basically have to purse your lips a bit…or a lot if it’s a high note, and just kind of blow, and as the same suggests, the goal is for your lips to well…buzz? I hope that made sense because I’m not that great at explaining stuff.

Huh... Buzzing.

I do that all the time, but I've recently stopped since... well... I think people find it annoying.

Maybe... I could play a brass instrument?

Actually. No... I can't.

...But it's interesting! I'll tell it to my friends, in case they ever want to play a brass instrument.

[become-a-robot]

I want to write and play music with every fiber of my being but its like. In order to do what I want to do, I gotta learn to sing, play an instrument, mix and edit in a DAW, and write lyrics etc from the ground up and its just ooooh myyy gooood.

I know the journey is just as important as the destination, and it takes most artists years to make anything they deem acceptable, but I wish I had at least one of those aformentioned skills beforehand when starting because I am daunted learning how to do any of those things to the point where I'm always struggling over balancing which skill I want to learn and end just up Not Doing Anything. I never feel comfortable even STARTING to do fun things badly :(

[the-thieves-gambit]

@dozenrozez

[cambrianera]

tbh i think if youre weird and annoying about accordion you owe every accordion player on earth 5000$

you dont have to like the sound persay. not every person likes the sound of every instrument. i know ive got instruments i dont typically like the sound of- and accordions can be loud irl and i sympathize with how that can be hard. but the type of person whos so outwardly dismissive of accordion and treats it like a joke is probably the most obnoxious type of person out there and im so serious about this

accordions are really heavy (they weigh around 20lbs average, some heavier, some lighter) and it takes a lot of very specific upper body strength to push/pull, not to mention how you need to do this while holding them very specifically in order to actually play. now depending on the type of accordion you either need to 1) have preexisting knowledge of piano 2) learn a piano keyboard to play or 3) learn 2 different sets of buttons that look pretty much exactly the same but Sure Dont Sound It!

its also really varied. most people think either stereotypical french/russian music or polka when they think of accordion, and i know why, but its a really varied instrument with a wide range of tone and can be used to effectively convey a lot of emotions musically

treating people like they are inherently jokes because they play an instrument you either dont like or just find funny makes you an asshole hope that helps!

[a-shooting-jade]

As someone who plays guitar and reads off of tabs (never even the treble clef) and has just decided to learn piano... What the fuck is the actual deal with the grand staff...

Like I get it... I get it I really do... But also I don't get it.

(me; at the grand staff)