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From any screen in the Music app, tap in the top-right corner. If the watch face is showing, turn the Digital Crown up, then tap the currently playing song in the Smart Stack or tap at the top of the screen.
If you don't need to listen to the music, and just let the other person to listen to it, you just need one line, as Darwin said. And set Skype input as line1.If you want the other person to listen to you and to the music just use VAC repeater to copy microphone to line1.
When I was recording podcasts, I ended up adding a second cheaper sound card dedicated to Skype and used the primary for music and recording. I then used a mixer to bring everything together. Definitely a more complicated setup and not very cheap, but it's a solid setup.
If you wear headphones, then you can use your iPhone to play the music, which will be picked up by the microphone as is your voice (and you'll be able to hear the music as well, unless you're wearing some really soundproof headphones). Thus, the others can hear both your voice and the music, but due to your headphones, they won't be able to hear themselves.
Play Youtube videos or any music through the VLC media player.Then get the Virtual Audio Cables program and have it create one more audio device for you.Set VLC to output to DirectX and Line 1 audio device.Then in my other Skype account set the microphone to Line 1 and press play in VLC. Works.
The rest of the answer is to use another app from VB-Audio (the developer of VAC), which is the VoiceMeeter donateware app. This app can pipe up to 3 inputs to up to 2 groups of outputs selectively. For example, you can send your microphone to just a virtual audio device that is being used by Skype and/or other programs for recording and broadcasting/streaming, so it doesn't echo back your voice in your headset. You can then take up to 2 other inputs, one is the VoiceMeeter virtual input, which you normally setup as the system default device so all apps will use it. The other will normally be setup as an extra virtual audio device from the VAC device you mentioned. This way all apps on your PC will use the virtual VoiceMeeter input by default for their output, and you can have Skype go to the VAC device - this let's you route the Skype output only to your local devices, so you aren't feeding it back incoming sounds from other participants right back to them. Meanwhile, all other apps on your PC will be setup to broadcast both locally and to your recording/streaming apps.
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I have, on the other hand, studied music theory for a few days/weeks now, multitude of hours (dedication put in, yes), practiced on piano playing software (I can't afford instruments) that mimics horns, drums, guitars, etc. I even tried other interactive, software-powered musical programs.
I want to be able to play songs well that I like, and one day (possibly) create my own small music/songs. However, I am puzzled at how some people lacking obvious knowledge of music theory in all angles can adapt and formulate tones, music, and rhythmatics from existing songs, etc.
I have a brother who does just this ... never had a good piano lesson, never studied in any way, shape, form, etc. Give him a guitar, piano, etc., and he can play well, just from the fact that he has experience playing.
Sounds like you are trying to intellectually and analytically "understand" music. In my opinion, this can be done to some extent. Just like you can intellectually understand language and grammar, and use that understanding to write poems, novels and short stories. However useful it might be, it isn't really necessary to write great stories. What makes a novel interesting is the more vague concept of 'feel', which can't easily be systematized. Some people grasp this without any formal grammar knowledge, either intuitively, and/or through lots of practice. Just the same with music; purely intellectual music can be technically interesting, but not more than that.
I'm a mathematician, and have a knack for logical systems. As yourself, I've used an analytical approach to learn music. So for many years, I've been improvising and playing based on what is 'logical' and/or technically interesting (and some times intentionally breaking those 'rules'). But lately I've more and more discarded this logical paradigm. Using it only for practice sessions. Instead I try to "let it happen".
My point is - and I don't know if this applies to you - that a purely analytical approach to music can somewhat miss the point. Theories and analysis can help you to control what happens - a kind of 'safety net'. These can be very useful in learning to master the instrument. But the real joy of playing and sharing music is to let go of control, and be free and honest here and now, in the moment.
That being said - mastering an instrument takes time - so don't give up. Find exercises and pieces you enjoy playing at the level you're on right now. Enjoy playing twinkle twinkle, and make your own jazzy balkan-metal version of it if you feel like it. Good luck, and have fun!
For example, you can study physics, motion, inertia, dynamics, geometry etc all you like, it will not make you any better at football, neither will studying other players, watching games and post-match analysis, categorising skills, abilities, statistics, anything. You might certainly get tips, inspiration and motivation, but acquire no skills without actually practicing.
You need a real instrument. I bought a cheap guitar once, it was unplayable, even friends that were good on guitar refused to play my guitar, they hated it, if they got no enjoyment from it, how could I? I didn't learn guitar.
Piano however; my grandparents gave me their Lorenzo electric reed organ when I was very young and a load of sheet music but all the notes were numbered as was the keyboard, and I was able to play songs without learning how to read music score.
You can get some toy synths that are useless (e.g. inadequate polyphony), but for not much more, you can get a real instrument. Or you can start simple. You can get a diatonic harmonica with "how to play harmonica" book at very little cost, Silent Night always sounds awesome on harmonica. If you really really enjoy it, you will soon be saving for a good chromatic harmonica.
There are many youtube videos that show you how to play. You can learn to play something a bit cooler than Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Imagine for example, that's quite easy. It's easier to learn to play music that you have heard many times, too.
If you want to write, most composers find this easier at their instrument, even if they're going to punch it into a sequencer later (or transcribe it) because you need the instant feedback from the experimentation, free play and creativity, personally I find it easier to work from lyrics, with lyrics, the melody soon comes, then once there's a melody, the chord progression is just there, everything else falls in to place, it's difficult to explain, particularly when I don't know the theory behind it. To me, the theory would only describe what I composed, but not the process or approach that I took.
Music theory is not music, it is a way of classifying and describing music. It is "metadata". Being conversant in the metadata is not a prerequisite for being a musician. That said, someone who plays music well certainly understands music theory on some level, perhaps intuitively. They may not use the same terminology as you to describe what they are doing but they recognize and work from the same musical patterns that a music theory would describe.
In any case, when someone picks up a guitar and can play without any formal training, it's because they have an ability to recognize patterns: the tonal patterns and how these correspond to the fretboard patterns. For the most part this is basically a native talent, but as long as you are not tone-deaf you can certainly make great strides yourself with the right teacher. It sounds to me like you've been trying to teach yourself, but what you really need is a good teacher to guide you along.
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