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Posted: March 23 2005 at 14:11 |
Shame on me 
I have played the guitar for about 40 years now, but still cannot actually read sheet music.
I admire those who can...especially admire those who can actually compose / write it.
[...Or is "writing" it old fashioned, with today's sophisticated software that can do it for you ?]
Seems like keyboardists are "better" when it comes to this
question...Every keyboard player I know can read sheet music.
Most guitarists I know cannot (in fact some of them can't play guitar
all that well in the first place  ). And I'm not talking about "guitar tab" music...
OTOH, I am learning to read sheet music. I guess I could have learned it a long time ago had I applied myself more when I was younger.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 14:45 |
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Ive actually learnt it twice, and forgotten it twice, im thinking about re-learning it and having it stick this time.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 15:27 |
Writing is good, if you want to write - depends on how quickly you can translate those thoughts into dots. I learned at an early age, so it's practically a second language.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 15:50 |
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Folks, We'd better learn how to read "Sheet Music"
Otherwise we're all in trouble.
After all, music is not just a haircut.
It's all about the basics.
Learn them and then make your own rules.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 16:51 |
 synthguy wrote:
Folks, We'd better learn how to read "Sheet Music"
Otherwise we're all in trouble.
After all, music is not just a haircut.
It's all about the basics.
Learn them and then make your own rules. |
THAT's what it's all about - learning the rules then interpreting them your own way!
Simply breaking the rules isn't enough, if you don't understand the rules in the first place.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 17:20 |
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Yep, sure can, due to many years training as a tuba player (treble and bass clef)
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 20:50 |
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I can read and write, but I'm just too lazy to do it. I'm more of an auditory kinda guy.
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 22:10 |
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I can read bass clef, but I'm beginning to learn treble clef (the other ones confuse me).
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Posted: March 24 2005 at 08:47 |
The others are easy - the Treble Clef looks a bit like a g, and has G on the second line from bottom, the Bass clef looks a bit like an F, and has F on the second line from the top - the rest all look like a C, and have C running through the middle of the clef itself (the line may vary).
As a pianist, they still confuse the hell out of me when I'm playing from them or writing in them, tho' 
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Posted: March 24 2005 at 12:47 |
I can read bass clef easily, and the others more slowly (I can't remember which of the C clefs I use  ; it's the one a 5th above bass clef) on 'cello, bass guitar, double bass and godawful keyboard (my playing, not the instrument). I can read guitar tab on guitar and bass (and slowly on keyboard, oddly).
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Posted: March 24 2005 at 16:31 |
I can barely read music. I am a TAB man myself. I am hung up on the key signatures--I can never remember them! 
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Posted: March 24 2005 at 17:57 |
Crimson Prince wrote:
I can barely read music. I am a TAB man myself. I
am hung up on the key signatures--I can never remember them! |
Just remember the order of sharps and flats:
Flats: Before Eating A Donut Get Coffee First
Sharps: Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bugs
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Posted: March 24 2005 at 18:02 |
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
Battle Ends, And Down Goes Charles' Father.
Never found them any use whatsoever but they certainly stuck in my mind.
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Posted: March 28 2005 at 21:57 |
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I can read it for keyboard fairly well, but it's slow going for me when it comes to guitar. That's why tab was invented: it is a much more accurate and logical method for transcribing guitar and bass (and maybe violin and other string instruments, I don't know). Best is the tab/sheet music combination, so you can read the notes from the tab and the rhythms from the sheet.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 01:48 |
Well it took me awhile, but I can read sheet music basically. Although
all this other latin word and odd symbols on how to emphasize certain
notes still bug me and confuse me; kind of pointless if you want to
play a piece and make it your own. Plus I'd be the one to believe that
every musician should play songs even if they are covering it; though
one would argue that punctuation in literature is as needed as the "mp"
symbol for mezzo piano.
I try to ignore sheet music when composing songs, but I mean it gets
hard to remember the bloody notes you were playing anyhow...just can't
escape it .
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 02:26 |
synthguy wrote:
It's all about the basics.
Learn them and then make your own rules |
Absolutely, SG
goose wrote:
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
Battle Ends, And Down Goes Charles' Father |
That's a different one - I was taught:
Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (treble clef)
Great Big Dogs Frighten Aunty (bass clef - I love that one )
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As a pianist, they still confuse the hell out of me when I'm playing from them or writing in them, tho' |
You should try organ - three staves to work from; right hand, left hand & left foot (not to mention right foot on volume & having to switch Leslie speeds with the left hand as well - it's like driving a car sometimes )
18 months ago, music was just a lot of lines & dots; I've been lucky in my choice of teacher - one of the old school; he was starting me using three of my four limbs on the first lesson, and teaching me to sight read at the same time; damned hard work, but slowly (oh, so bloody slowly!) paying dividends - I even managed to transcribe 'Theme 1' by VDGG to blank staves a while ago.
Why, oh why did I not start this years ago...?
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 07:24 |
Jim Garten wrote:
certif1ed wrote:
As a pianist, they still confuse the hell out of me when I'm playing from them or writing in them, tho' |
You should try organ - three staves to work from; right hand, left hand & left foot (not to mention right foot on volume & having to switch Leslie speeds with the left hand as well - it's like driving a car sometimes ) |
I've never had a problem playing the organ... 
...I used to play the organ in my local church.
Not that one, silly... the one with the big pipes and bellows and rows and rows of stops - 3 levels of keys and all the trimmings.
Of course, the first thing I learned to play properly on that baby was Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor
A bottom D through a 32' pipe has to be experienced from the "control center"!!! I'd just like to get my hands (or feet, rather...) on an instrument with a 64 footer...
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 02:20 |
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 05:34 |
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I can read and write sheet music.
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 12:30 |
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Yes'm, I can read and write sheet music.
I hate these music theory classes they have out there... they always
teach music theory from the classical perspective. Honestly, they teach
melodic, harmonic, and natural minor scales/key and never teach dorian.
99% of contemporary music that you hear on the radio that employs a
minor scale employs dorian minors. Just kills me. If you want to learn comtemporary music theory, LEARN JAZZ. Major,
dorian minor, and dominant keys are crucial, for composing and
improvising. The best composers are master improvisers, take my word
for it.
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