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Norman Paul Kliman
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 RE: Need advice regarding something (in reply to Stu)
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Maybe try learning it by notes? Not ear.
Yeah, try writing the new ideas in musical notation if you haven’t already, and learn how to do it if you don’t know. Some people seem to think it’s too hard to learn, and I remember it being a big step for me, insofar as not being sure if I could do it and being surprised afterward that I could. For my own purposes, I always use paper, pencil and tablature with time values, which is very fast, easy and accurate. If you forget a falseta, you can go back and check the tab, and the transcribing process develops your head and ears in a unique way.
Back in 1983, Steve Vai said:
But transcribing definitely helps your sight-reading. It'll help your ears; it'll help your sense of time. It's a miracle drug. It's really worth it.
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Date Mar. 29 2024 9:04:46
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Paul Magnussen
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RE: Need advice regarding something (in reply to Norman Paul Kliman)
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Yeah, try writing the new ideas in musical notation if you haven’t already, and learn how to do it if you don’t know. Some people seem to think it’s too hard to learn, and I remember it being a big step for me, insofar as not being sure if I could do it and being surprised afterward that I could.
It’s become clear to me over the course of my life, that the biggest obstacle to learning anything is very often simply the unjustified belief that it’s too difficult, and nothing more. It’s stopped me even trying many things, which I now regret.
I went to Len Williams’s Spanish Guitar Centre when I was a 15-year-old schoolboy, and learnt to read music along with housewives and many other normal, average people. So give it a go. Yes it’s slow at first, and you find yourself counting leger lines; but it’s more than worth the effort.
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For my own purposes, I always use paper, pencil and tablature with time values, which is very fast, easy and accurate.
That’s exactly what I did before the days of music software, and I still have all my transcriptions on yellowing paper — writing out all those dots was too much effort.
Nowadays I use Finale, but that’s because I bought it early, and now my version is completely familiar: but it’s expensive, and it has a steep leaning curve.
Tablature with time-values was good enough for John Dowland, after all, so…
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Date Mar. 30 2024 6:45:22
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