After 2 or so weeks of practicing an average of 1 hour per day., here's where I am at so far. Keep in mind that I have one of the worst memories in the history of recollection. So, if I can do this shit, you can probably do it better.
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It is possible to play any instrument without reading music. There are advantages and disadvantages. I've known phenomenal piano players who could not read anything but they could play pretty much anything and learn it note by note by ear quickly. I myself play guitar and have played in College Jazz Band before. I can read music, but I do it far too slowly for it to be usable WHILE I am playing. I can read it to learn a song, but I memorize it and no longer need the sheet music. I also played for years without knowing how to read it. The other members in the band tended to be experts at sight reading as they played. They had an advantage that if you stuck the piece of music in front of them they could just start playing it. They had the disadvantage that they were very bad at memorizing it, if the sheet music blew off the stand or was lost they too were LOST and could not play it.
The best place to be I believe is being able to do both.
I hear what your saying, and I will bow to your knowledge, but I would say if ur hopeless at both like I am it best just to watchs the pros do it and just gasp in wonder!!! Lol
If it were EASY it would not be something we admired as much. It does take effort. Occasionally there are some blessed with natural abilities that do not have to work hard at it, but they seem to be rare people.
So it would seem that I am the only one who was curious about this question.. And everyone else already knows the answer. I fucking hate taking photos or videos, so perhaps I wasted my time on this one.
But, I am certainly having fun learning. I am not a point where I can know which key to press just by hearing it, but I feel that it is something I will be able to grasp in time. For the moment though, I am using this to learn.
If you can play guitar hero, then you can do this too. Just need patience it would seem.
No... it is a good question. Just many of us likely already have been there long ago. At least I have many decades ago when I began making music and learning music. The fact you are starting the journey doesn't mean you should instantaneously have the same conclusions. It's called learning. Enjoy it. Absolutely nothing wrong with your question or thoughts.
I for one am glad you are pursuing music. I personally think everyone could benefit from such pursuits.
Guitar hero is actually a bit harder if you actually already play REAL guitar. It's not the same and you'll want to do a lot of things that match the sound but don't match the button to press. I still had fun playing such games with my family.
You answered the question perfectly
I'm not sure who originally said it, but I always related to the line "I read a little, but not enough to hurt me none" and it reminds me too of when I took a few piano lessons from a great jazz pianist, I wanted to learn how to play jazz, and he said that the original jazz players had nobody to teach them, and that I should do what they did; invent it. He also taught me the invaluable; 'Never try to play anything that you can't sing.' That one really sunk in.
In learning songs by ear, it is beneficial to know how to hear each note in a chord, those subtleties that give a song flavor, but knowing if it's a B flat major 7th or whatever only becomes useful when working with other musicians-- it's the language that speeds up communication for the players who are all playing a song together.
(Sadly, I couldn't get those videos to play)
Yes I can see that it would be important to be able to read and write music in such circumstances. Perhaps I will learn at a later date, but for now, I don't intend to be playing in or conducting an orchestra, so I am going to stick to the synthesia for the time being.
I do hope to be able to identify tones by sound eventually, and have demonstrated a little potential in this regard by getting a few correct while guessing. But, it is far more often than not that I am get them wrong at this point.. So I know I still have a long way to go.
Eventually the hand's muscle-memory will correspond with the ear's memory of the notes, and where the keys are, relative to each other.
One of the most important lessons that helped me was to practice with a metronome. It forces the hand to learn more quickly in order to keep up with the meter of the song, and improves timekeeping overall.
If you have an ear for music, which you obviously do, then yes. I had a friend in high school that could not only play songs that he heard, but he also composed some absolutely amazing and beautiful songs without having ever learned to read it.
So on a totally shallow note, you would look amazing in a beanie- do you ever wear them?
It was great to see you live and in color love, look forward to more :) Also watching you put into practice doing the things you've always wanted to is inspiring.
Lol. No. I don't really accessorize. My brothers all seem to love their beanies mind you, and my dad. But, I've never cared much for any type of hat.
There are many famous musicians who don't know how to read sheet music.
In fact, most music creators don't work with sheet music because it gets in the way of creating. It is only important if you need others to help you play (such as an orchestra)
Fortunately, there is MIDI. So, you just plug your keyboard into your computer, and it will print you out some sheet music.
Fucking hell. That makes so much sense. One of the reasons I am not keen on learning is that it isn't written the way I would write it.. And, I definitely want to compose a song of my own one day, and I also believe that to adhere to someone else's way of doing things would limit my creativity.
Thanks a lot for sharing this information, even if you did kinda make my video redundant. Lol