Not sure if music theory counts as a new instrument but over the last four years I’ve been taking in-person college classes on music theory, then counterpoint, and now aural training / sight singing.
As someone with no formal training who hung around with pop / experimental musicians who said this stuff was the devil, it’s completely transformed how I play piano and partly even guitar and therefore feels like I’m picking up a whole new instrument. The aural training stuff is just mad at how your brain starts to begin to pick out chords from their sound etc.
Really want to move from my playing guitar like a double bass to an actual double bass but it won’t fit in the house.
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