music help: What’s the quickest most effective way to learn to play an instrument? - Help.com

To have someone hold a gun to your head, give you a tutor, and give you 24 hours to become competent?

Commander Ikari wrote:
To have someone hold a gun to your head, give you a tutor, and give you 24 hours to become competent?

OR you could just play the piano.

What kind of instrument? Some you can learn to play online. I’m learning to play guitar on line.

Practice, and listen. I’m a musician. Every two hours of practicing should be balanced with an hour of listening to the kind of music you want to play.

You can know everything there is to know about music without playing any instrument. Many vocalists study music theory to understand pitch, intervals etc. If you want to play music though, purchase the theory and method books and find a mentor who can help when you find you don’t understand something. There are a lot of musicians that just want to be helpful and not just to become wealthy. Good luck!!

Put on music tutorial tape thingy’s and listen to them non stop day and night (while your asleep) and maybe your brain will slowly soak it all up :P

slowly work on little parts at a time and (using piano for example) work on the right hand…and then the left and gradually pick up the speed