I have no talent in music and I still want to do it?
I am a girl who just turned 14. When I grow up I want to be either a surgeon or a nurse because if I become a surgeon I can save people's lives, and if I become a nurse I can relax and reassure the patients and befriends with them. My parents say if I become a doctor it'll be easier for me to live, and is a good, stable job, so they're happy with it, but if I ever want to do something else different, they're always happy. Lately I've been thinking a lot abut this and I've been having thoughts about what I would like to become. If I ever fail to be a doctor or a nurse I decided I want to do a job involving music. I really love music, it's like a part of my life and I don't think I can survive without it. I feel really envious when I see people singing or playing instruments. When I'm walking in the city and there are people playing music on the streets, I can listen to it for ages. I just really love music and that's what I look forward to the most in school assembly as well. When I was depressed and my parents fight there was no one but music, and I think that's how it got into my life. It's a very, very stupid dream and won't be possible in real life, but I just wish I could travel all around the world and study and listen to different kinds of music. So I thought, if I can't be a doctor, I would like to be a musician. Except that...I don't have any talent in singing or playing anything..... I do can play piano and am trying to play guitar but my hand is.....really small...and my fingers are so short....sould it be possible to be a musician? Can practicing help? What should I do?
How do you know if you have musical talent?
I'm not sure whether to classify this as "talent" or as something that just anyone can do. I've had formal music training, and I play the electric guitar, classical guitar, piano and keyboards. I've lacked confidence in my musical abilities lately, though (long story). Anyway, of course I can sight read, but I'm not a visual learner and sight reading doesn't come to me particularly naturally. I can do it, but what comes to me naturally is playing by ear. I'm auditory and not visual, and I have learned a lot of music from listening to it, recognizing the theory behind it (e.g., what type of scale, chord, etc.) and playing it back. Anyway, even though guitar is my primary instrument I do play the piano a lot. Sometimes I play classical pieces from sheet music, but I have a hobby of playing various musical scores (video games, movies, etc.) by ear. For example, I love the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and I learned the musical score to the second one. Well, one day I was playing "The Two Hornpies" on the piano, and my dad dropped in for a visit and commented, "Learning a song from a movie soundtrack by ear is a parlor trick, anyone can do it." I know it's probably preferable to sight read, but is playing by ear a parlor trick? Do I lack musical talent if I play by ear? I can take an honest answer... :S
How do I know if I have a talent in music?
Go on and give it a try!Our talents depends on the exposure we get. So get yourself into a music class and learn to play a instrument or to sing and quickly you will develop interest.If you can prolong your interests on the field and if you are really determined and progressing . It becomes your talent.Talent is gained and not given in default. Everyone develop on their talent, which depends completely on their opportunity and circumstances and thoughts.So who knows you can be a rock star.
How can I unlock my music talent?
Here’s what I did. One day I went to a keyboard with some staff paper, started playing some ideas and scribbling them, then playing them over and over to make refinements. Just be courageous and don’t worry if your first efforts don’t seem good enough. Keep a staff paper notebook for sketching ideas as Beethoven did. Just persist. Also, having a good composition teacher can sometimes help.
How do you know if you have musical talent?
It's important to understand talent vs skill. Skill can be acquired. Anyone who wants to be a music artist can do it regardless of talent. They simply need to develop their skill. And while this take lots of work and dedication, it is by no means impossible. Talent on the other hand is a natural ability. It gives you a competitive advantage with all the blood, sweat, and tears of developing skill. If you have talent chances are you know it. But if not the only real way to know is to get someone who is a professional in the industry to listen to you. Your family and friends are NOT going to be able to give you a proper answer. They might say you do or don't have talent, but as they are not trained in talent development there's no way they can know for sure. The best thing to do is record a demo and send it to music industry professionals.Good luck!Tim WhiteTim White | Official Website
How do music producers find talent?
They have people called A&R reps. A/R stands for artist and repertoire.These people lurk around venues known to have hosted bands which later became famous. These people watch the new bands play, pay attention to how the crowd reacts, and if the band sells music and merchandise at the show, well the A&R guy grabs a record and takes down some contact information, and if he likes what he hears on the recording and thinks the musicians might be a package deal (can perform live, can record in the studio, doesn’t look like trouble, etc.) then he’ll call the band up and invite them to a dinner where he picks up the tab and offers a contract called a 1+1 — one debut album + one addtl album if the first one goes over well.And that’s that.Sometimes it’s a fluke, though. My band got signed because a high school girl was listening to our demo tape on a walkman at work. She was a custodian at her dad’s record label. The A&R guy asked her what she was listening to, put it on his office stereo, bam, history.
Why does musical talent tend to run in families?
From where I stand, I see two main reasons:Many trades tend to run in families. From bankers to clock makers, from tailors to blacksmiths, from bakers to winemakers, soldiers, cops, sailors, politicians, hotel owners and royalties — I think you got the picture. I too would like to leave my instruments to someone who will value them, love them, use them, not to someone who will sell them for peanuts before they put me in the grave.The first stage of music education is listening to music, and this usually happens in a family of musicians. Talent is almost secondary; and it’s really not that rare.Many talents are lost, wasted, because they never even tried to play an instrument or they never touched a paintbrush or a chisel. They just weren’t born in the “right” family…