gj Michelob -> RE: Learning by listening (Feb. 8 2009 8:15:24)
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One of the (many) reasons why I felt I could relate to Flamenco, was that it forgives the need of reading-writing music, and emphasizes a more proletarian approach to learning by “emulation”. As a kid my parents could not afford to provide proper music lessons, nor would they have taken the “risk” of turning a child into a “musician”. I learned whatever I did on the street, regrettably sort of behind my parents’ back (I am sure many in my older generation had similar experiences). And now that I am older, I want music to stay within the tightly marked boundaries of a hobby. I cannot afford the luxury of dedication any serious music program could require. So by ear and by eyes, listening and watching (God bless youtube, really), does it handsomely for me, to add fresh ideas and new challenges every time I wish to seek them out. I am not suggesting that one should not learn proper music theory, in fact it would infinitely help. When the scholarly pros discuss “theory” here, I do suffer the pains of inadequacy. I have a most remedial appreciation of traditional written notation I’d learnt studying cello (my music revenge after passing the NY Bar), but I am happily back to “can you do that one more time, and may be slow it down a notch, amigo?”. If there is a trick it must be training your senses to appreciate “what’s going on”, the more you try to download in your mind what you hear and convert sound into mechanical images, the easier it becomes. After a couple of years of doing what you are (and many here) doing, I sort of envision the guitarist’s hands, as I listen to a Falseta.
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