Free Digital Sheet Music - instruments survey

25 great music-making tips from musicians

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:31:10 +0000

In the results of the Music to make you happy survey in February, the things that impressed me most were the answers to the question "What's the best piece of advice about making music that you've ever heard?" Within the 1,100+ responses are hundreds of great tips - some old, some new, some obvious, some arcane. Like these, for starters...

Which musical instrument will make me happiest?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:36:18 +0000

Now it starts to get interesting (thank you for your patience). In the survey, I asked which instruments you can play "well enough to enjoy it", and which one of those instruments makes you happiest right now. The most popular instrument was synth, followed by guitar. The graph above shows which instruments make people the happiest*. And the winner, overwhelmingly, is the humble guitar.

Which instruments do Music Thing readers play?

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:18 +0000

No huge surprises here. Everyone's a synth twiddler, not that many are high-end musical programming language fans. I wonder if 'recording studio' and 'low geek' should be merged - they're both really just general recording. 'Something else' bought a few surprises: The most popular choices were, in order: Saxophone, banjo, mandolin, flute, harmonica, trombone, clarinet, violin, theremin, cello, melodica, accordion, ukelele, recorder, lap/pedal steel, circuit bending, kazoo, tuba, didgeridoo, turntable, Gameboy.

Can Music Thing readers read music?

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:47:16 +0000

So, the survey was a big success - 2,200 replies in a week. Thank you very much. There are a few really interesting results which I'm checking at the moment, but first of all... Can you read music? 578 of you can, 1,124 of you can 'sort of', and 419 can't at all. The results for individual instruments are interesting. These results are based on answers to the question: "Which 'instrument' makes you happiest right now?"