20Jan/122
Sheet Music and Note Reading?
Switch ♪♫ asked:
Why is it that everyone always asks for the notes? I mean, even if you do not want to learn sheet music...you can always get a filled out staff and set them side by side....
Why is it that everyone always asks for the notes? I mean, even if you do not want to learn sheet music...you can always get a filled out staff and set them side by side....
ok this one is g.... ok this one is c.... ok this one is e.....
if you don't have the knowledge to realize that notes translate to positions on the sheet music staff, no wonder people can't learn to read sheet music. :/
I pose another question, Has behavior like this always been an issue? (the note reading / sheet music)
that post kind of set off the question, but I have just seen it so much in the brief time that I started posting in this forum....
and as has it always been this way, i meant in general not just in respect to the forum.
How to Read Music
October 13th, 2009 - 02:35
How to Read Music
Yes, and we see this day in and day out. small wonder we get annoyed. I remember being young and finding it hard to gain fluency reading in various keys, but I just persevered. Why don’t they ust ask their school teachers? Most would be delighted to help or point them in the right direction. My suspicion is that they don’t want to learn, and are looking for what they perceive to be the easy way out.
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I think that your question refers to “Nostalgy, by Paul de Senneville & Olivier Toussaint?” posting
this has now been posted for the second time today…we get annoyed and say so , the poster then reports us and we end up with the violation ! Hence you sometimes see quite a bit of vitriol
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It has been an issue on here since time immemorial
October 16th, 2009 - 02:35
Sight Reading Music
We do see it every day. The activity ramps up each time a feature-length film is released that includes some “significant” amount of piano music.
The most recent “bump in the graph” has been because of the film Twilight. It took a while to get to the questions about Debussy … probably because it sounds difficult and the majority of the kids wanted the easiest piece to start with.
I assert that the people who ask for “notes” are generally young (~15), have had no exposure to music lessons, if they play a musical instrument it is guitar, either by chords or by TAB. They may have a low-end keyboard in the house or a neglected upright in the garage and want to impress their friends with their new-found “talent”. My answer to them is like yours: “Get (pay for) the sheet music, have a #2 pencil and a theory book and fill in the names yourself.”
There are also a myriad of questions relating to transposing instruments. (clarinet, trumpet, saxophone) and how to go about transposing from concert C to their instrument’s range. These, I think, are mostly high-school students in band or orchestra and have some musical ability, but have not been taught about transposing instruments per se. I’m happy to explain the process to them.
… I’m just as irritated when people ask for “sheets” rather than sheet music.