Sr. Martins -> RE: road to....? (Aug. 2 2013 21:56:18)
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Pink, There is a third layer between "ear" and "reading". Ear: people usually go by fingerings on their instrument, relying more on physical cues associated to stuff they already know. Getting out of this box is very unlikely. Its like the good old pentatonic shape & its blues licks. Reading: here we can find people who can only read and are unable to play happy birthday by ear (this is true). The best readers are like a humanized midi player. 3rd layer: a guy that doesnt read but KNOWS & USES his theory. When you associate intervals, chords, cadences, patterns and all that with a symbol (theory), you end up creating your own vocabulary, your library that you can expand and use to understand genres that are new to you... ...instead of hunting the notes down with your fingers or running to buy sheet music. What I mean is that if you get that 3rd layer down you'll immediately understand written music without even learning it. Either way, its your choice if you want to read or not but it certainly opens up your own visualization of note movement as opposed to thinking in numers all the time (the 3rd layer thing). Little by little Ive been forcing myself to write stuff using notation, it certainly opens up new perspectives after those 10min spent figuring out how to write those two measures [:D]
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