Who Here Can Read Standard Notation?, and to what level? |
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Aug 23 2012, 08:32 AM
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I'm guessing Alex can due to his college studies in compostion.
Anyone else? Anyone feel it's needed as a guitarist? I'm thinking of digging out the Musicians Institute book ' Music Reading For Guitar' by David Oakes again and taking another stab at learning -------------------- My SoundCloud
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I took piano lessons for many years, starting when I was 8 years old. I memorized the space notes for both the bass and treble cleft. I just think of what is between the spaces, instead of memorizing the lines too.
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Aug 23 2012, 06:02 PM
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Looooong time ago I have been able to read it, and actually play anything that you gave me written down like that, it was while I was still in music school, learning to play classical guitar. But I guess I never ever read music like that ever since I was 16 or 17, so it has been a couple of weeks already ;-) Today I can still read, but I am very slow and I definitely could not pick up a piece of paper with written music and just start playing, it is just the lack or practice I guess. Do I miss it? Not at all! In Blind Guardian we never wrote down anything, we recorded all our ideas instead, so if I forget something I will have to use my ears, and somehow I prefer this concept, after all we are talking about music, which is made dor our ears, not our eyes ;-) But of course it is not a bad thing if you can read music.
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is my task 
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Aug 23 2012, 10:10 PM
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I can read it, because I play both piano and guitar. As a guitarist I have only used this skill when taking a piece that was orginally in standard notation and adapting it to the guitar, but other than that I virtually never use it in anything guitar related.
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Aug 24 2012, 09:19 AM
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I know the note names, and I know the note durations, so in theory with a lot of practice I could get somewhere, but I am so used to using my ear that I rely on that as a crutch.
I had about 8 months of piano lessons when I was 10 and a couple years ago bought the sheet music for a Ludovico Einaudi album thinking I could teach myself to play piano properly from my meager abilities, and the sheet music helped but I still had to listen to the music along with the sheet music. I only got about 16 bars into the piece at 75% of the original speed. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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