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Wed Aug-24-05 02:25 PM
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Poll question: DU musicians: Do you read sheet music? |
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:26 PM
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:27 PM
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:hi:
What instrument do you play? :)
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:29 PM
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4. a few, but none well anymore |
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saxophone, flute, piano...and i can noodle around on percussion and guitars/basses.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:31 PM
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I always start and stop. Piano, clarinet, and guitar. Someday I'll pick the piano and guitar back up again. :)
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:28 PM
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I play most of my music from sheet music, but I also play by ear.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:29 PM
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:30 PM
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6. What do you mean by "read"? |
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As in being able to sight-read something and play it, or just knowing what the bars and dots mean?
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:32 PM
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8. Exactly.. I can read music but I can't sight read |
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it's not really a necessity for a blues guitarist...
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:34 PM
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16. No, I'm sure sightreading is not required |
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I always found sightreading on the piano extremely difficult. Trying to follow two lines of music at once is a great challenge, so on the piano I always learned the sheet music by heart and played it back that way. On the clarinet I can do a little better.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:32 PM
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Just knowing what the bars and dots mean I'd put under option 3.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:34 PM
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I can sight-read perfectly well, but I generally don't use sheet music |
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So I fit in nowhere in your poll. :cry:
:D
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:39 PM
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22. Other is a special option! |
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Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 02:41 PM by Kathleen04
Just for you, my friend. :)
Actually, I think that'd also fit under three. You have the ability to read sheet music but generally don't when playing.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:43 PM
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28. The way I do it is... |
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...I hop on my white bicycle, ask Colonel Brown for directions, have my own little revolution, shed a tear or two for Grocer Jack, clear my mind of hallucinations, sort out about 10,000 words in a cardboard box, and then, in a twink, I read the music.:evilgrin:
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:44 PM
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Meet you at Claremont Lake. :thumbsup:
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:52 PM
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Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 02:52 PM by silvermachine
...but if it's too crowded then I recommend you contact me care of cell 44 at Beechwood Park where I can pick a rose for Emily, light brief candles, and try to avoid getting hung up on a dream with friends of mine at this time of the season.:toast:
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:59 PM
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41. Give me a minute while I try to string SF Sorrow song titles together |
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Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 02:59 PM by jpgray
:dunce:
I always thought it was neat that the Zombies' two main songwriters had synonymous surnames.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:32 PM
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9. Yes, but I play by ear equally as well. |
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Depends on what type of music and the setting.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:33 PM
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11. Yes, read and sight-read... |
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since I was about five. :hi:
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:33 PM
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I learned bass clef playing trombone--but I haven't touched that for more than twenty years so I've pretty much completely forgotten. Treble clef, well, I can puzzle it out and eventually get it but I can't sight read for guitar.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:34 PM
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13. Ernie Gives Bert Dead Frogs and FACE |
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thats how I learned the notes
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:35 PM
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17. ha ha - i heard Every Good Boy Does Fine |
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or Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:37 PM
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20. Every Good Boy Deserves a Friend |
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is another on for the notes on the lines, or Good Boys Deserve a Friend Always for the line notes in the bass clef.
Also, for the order of accidentals in sharp key signatures: Father Christmas Gave Dad an Electric Blanket, and for flat key signatures, But Every Afternoon Dad Gets Cold Feet.
:)
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Wed Aug-24-05 03:01 PM
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42. I Must Have Gone to A Weirder School |
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For the circle of 5th my teacher taught me" Fat Cats Grow Dizzy After Eating Barbituates
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:39 PM
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23. I started out in bass clef with the cello |
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For us the main mnemonic was "the g-string is on the bottom." :D
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:43 PM
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26. Every Good Boy Deserves Favor |
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And it's still my personal motto to this day.
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:32 PM
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55. In school, we learned Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, and |
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.
With FACE for the spaces.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:34 PM
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I wish I could improv better...
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:34 PM
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I took piano lessons from 3rd grade until I was 17. I still suck, but I can sight read music and play.
I also played percussion for quite some time. Haven't sat at a trap for at least 4 years though. Oh how I miss it.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:35 PM
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:49 PM
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it's how I learned how to play. But back in those days tabs were not so easy to get ahold of. Now you can find tabs for almost every song ever written on the net...
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:57 PM
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40. Tabs can be rough if you've never heard the song |
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Though as a guitar teacher I've made up "super tabs" that have rhythmic notation. Still, they are helpful for fingering information.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:37 PM
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19. Classical piano. I can improvise in a pop-ish way but I'm really |
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not comfortable doing it.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:39 PM
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21. I can only read and play violin/mandolin sheet music |
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because that's all I learned formally. I can certainly read piano and guitar sheet music, but I have to hunt for the right notes. IOW, I know the note is an 'A#', but I don't instantly know where it is on the fret board.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:40 PM
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24. I can read it, but I don't very often |
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:42 PM
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I can read a chord chart, no problem....but it's actually easier for me to just start playing off of the top of my head.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:45 PM
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31. On the piano, C is actually quite a hard key to play in. |
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True blue. Black notes are useful for getting your fingers underneath each other!
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:46 PM
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33. My favorite key for piano is Eb |
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That feels so good to play in.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:50 PM
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37. Yup, three flats. Nice compromise. |
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Most of Joplin's rags are in three or four flats. Probably because it makes it easier for the stomping left hand.
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Wed Aug-24-05 03:07 PM
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47. I had a stereotypical German music teacher |
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Who told me the three flats (bs) in Eb were for Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. :eyes:
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:48 PM
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34. It may be a little tougher to play..... |
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But it's a hell of a lot easier to read.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:52 PM
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39. Irving Berlin had a special piano, wherby he could play |
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everything in F-sharp or G-flat, but could move the action in such a way as to adjust the pitch to a different key. (Or so I was told by one of my professors).
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:29 PM
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54. Fortunately for me, my digital piano has a button that does exactly that. |
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You can transpose by half step increments up or down. It's great for playing the piano and singing in a key that's more comfortable for the voice than the music you're reading, or even the key you would be more comfortable playing.
You have to block out any pitch familiarity you might have though... it can be disconcerting to be reading music that is a fifth away from what you are hearing.
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:43 PM
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27. I use sheet music and tab |
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:44 PM
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29. I can and will read sheet music |
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but TAB is so much easier...
When I am playing piano though, and not going by ear, then yes, I like to use sheet music. But I guess that only makes sense, doesn't it?
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:45 PM
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but I seldom do since I don't play any instruments. I couldn't figure out where to fit that :)
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Wed Aug-24-05 02:50 PM
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:shrug:
Actually, I know enough about it, but never made a habit about using it.
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Wed Aug-24-05 03:03 PM
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I learned the treble clef at a very early age for both the piano and the violin, then as I progressed with the piano I developed the bass clef as well. I switched from violin to viola which necessitated learning the alto clef (and the tenor clef is exactly the same in terms of the principle concerned).
Whilst singing in a church choir I learned the principles of neume notations for plain-chant singing which has two clefs (the c clef and the f clef).
At the moment I can figure out treble or bass clef music on a piano fairly quickly (though my playing is horrendously out of practice). If I sit down and work things out slowly I can do the same with alto and tenor clefs - though I can only play these on a piano or other keyboard instrument - so too with the neume notations. If singing as part of a group, I can sing along sight-reading from neume script, but by no means can I sight-sing it.
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Wed Aug-24-05 03:03 PM
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44. I learn the music from sheet music but |
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never perform with sheet music.:)
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Wed Aug-24-05 03:05 PM
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46. Can't read music. Self taught and I only play by ear or.............. |
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guitar tab. Wish I had learned. Maybe next life.
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Wed Aug-24-05 04:20 PM
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48. I'm an ear musician, but I can read music |
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usually just single notes. I can't read a piano or guitar score to save my life.
I guess those five years of sax lessons really did come in handy.
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Wed Aug-24-05 04:34 PM
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I play the violin and keyboard, but only for fun. I learned in school and kept it up as a hobby. :)
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Wed Aug-24-05 04:52 PM
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50. I can sight read the treble clef sorta OK. |
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:16 PM
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51. Yes, of course. Play by ear as well. |
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:22 PM
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52. I'm learning right now................. |
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I can read music just fine, but I'm taking theory lessons so I can learn to wrangle all the dots and staves.
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:23 PM
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I've always been a "feel" player on guitar and bass; I read chord charts, but that's about it..
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:51 PM
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56. I'll play the whole piece with the sheets |
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But I'll do parts by memory.
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Wed Aug-24-05 05:57 PM
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57. I read slowly so I usually don't do it... |
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but i have the ability to fall back on.
Give me a chord chart and I'm happy.
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Wed Aug-24-05 06:33 PM
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58. I can read it, but I don't use sheet music. |
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Play blues harp and guitar, and I can also read tabulature. But once I get down to playing, I pretty well know what I'm going to do, besides improvisation :)
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