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(Date Posted:10/07/2003 6:59 PM)

It's been so long since anybody said anything on this board so I've decided to ask you all how you go about this crucial activity. If no-one mentions a key, I don't trust my ears enough and have to watch their fingers. Intently. Then I can see the notes and thus can play. Sometimes.BRAll those musos who imagined otherwise about my rapt gaze, dream on). What do you do? Countess R

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(Date Posted:10/07/2003 6:59 PM)

It's been so long since anybody said anything on this board so I've decided to ask you all how you go about this crucial activity.



If no-one mentions a key, I don't trust my ears enough and have to watch their fingers. Intently. Then I can see the notes and thus can play. Sometimes.


All those musos who imagined otherwise about my rapt gaze, dream on).



What do you do?



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(Date Posted:11/07/2003 10:57 PM)

I'm afraid I can only play by ear on my melodeon.  I know what I want to hear - it's just a case of pressing the buttons until I find the right one!  That's why I can never learn a tune with DTN, 'cos once he starts playing, I can't hear myself!! (probably why I don't play the box in sessions)


You must be very clever to learn by watching hands.  What is it you play?


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(Date Posted:12/07/2003 6:23 PM)

Thank god you're there, Mrs Knitter, I was beginning to think this board's membership was composed exclusively of Folkworks kids born with tune implants. I play fiddle and English concertina. Watching fingers only works with fiddlers 'cos you can't really see what free reeders are doing, as you must know. That for me comes from books. Laboriously. I hope you took phones with you to the babysitting. Could be a bit noisy and counter-productive, scaring the poor kids with Bellow.



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(Date Posted:13/07/2003 2:23 AM)


 


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If it is any conciliation, I am supposed to be a qualified musician with a degree but find it extremely difficult to learning anything from music. I might be what you would call manuscript dyslexic. There seems to be something amiss between my eyes - brain - hands... however I am a lot better at ears - brain - hands... therefore I also watch intently but listen as well and pick bits up as I go along. Learning by ear seems to stick in my brain a lot longer that learning by rote i.e. show me how to do and I can do it pretty quickly. In the end every one has their own method of learning. My greatest problem is getting off my lazy arse and actually doing some decent practice.


Hope this helps


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(Date Posted:13/07/2003 6:47 AM)

How didya do that?



I cut and pasted from Pagemaker but

all the formatting vanished.



Ah, co-ordinated ears, that? the way

to go.



Now, Sidey, careful where you mention

Your music qualifications, the folk

police are about!



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(Date Posted:14/07/2003 4:25 AM)

I can't read music - well I can in slow motion but not well enough to learn tunes properly.  I need to hear it a few times and then I can play it if it follows the usual patterns.  Some of the weirder stuff takes longer.


I reckon I have the same thing with musical dyslexia.  I am dyslexic, but have learnt to cope with letters and words.  I find it ridiculous that a language (written music) has the same symbols to mean all the different notes - just in a different place.  To me it would make much more sense if the sign for a G crotchet was different to an A crotchet, like a letter of the alphabet, but the rhythm was marked out by more subtle diferences like position.  I like ABC though!


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(Date Posted:14/07/2003 1:57 PM)

Hmmm...when upper case is a crochet and lower case a quaver:



D f.5 a D.5 a | B A E A | B A F D | e.5 f g.5 a F A |



D f.5 a D.5 a | B A E A | B A E A | B A f.5 e d.5 f E x 2 D A |



when f in bar 1, f & a in Bar 4, a in bar 5. e & f in bar 7 = semiquavers



To me, notation works perfectly logically for strings as positions on the stave relate directly to finger positions. Not so much for rows.

Do you need notation to distinguish consonant and dissident intervals? I don't think so, If your ears can't tell you that much, maybe its

best to get out of music and take up fly fishing.



A musical mathematician could explain it better - I feel a Colin Cotter workshop coming on.



Aaargh, pass the gin!



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