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Monkey Man
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You're a brave-and-talented man, Michael. 
Monkey Man
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Dude, I'd be lucky if I could play 1 bar of any part of the song, so yeah, you rock big-time, bro'.
codyjarret
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inyarak74":14z6jbse said:
Thank you for the kind words my friend!
Monkey Man
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Good call.MichaelR/T":3ax7ppqp said:Monkey Man":3ax7ppqp said:
Ahh, you're way too kind my friend.
The main melodies are worth learning. Lots of great ideas can develop from learning them.
Maybe one day when I'm brave-enough.
Monkey Man
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Thanks for lookin' out for me, bro'.
All I see is numbers dancing on the screen. I've never been able to read staves or tabs. I've tried staff-reading since age 6 or so and there's some sort of mental block. It's as if the magic of music will be lost if I ever figure it out, so I just go with the magic. I trust my ear so I'll be OK I guess.
It's weird 'cause my mom's the opposite - she scored 100% for sight-reading at the highest levels of classical piano, but can't write for shit, and I'm the polar opposite.
Every examination board thought she'd pre-learned all the pieces she was confronted with 'cause they'd not seen this before. Like I said, polar-opposites.
All I see is numbers dancing on the screen. I've never been able to read staves or tabs. I've tried staff-reading since age 6 or so and there's some sort of mental block. It's as if the magic of music will be lost if I ever figure it out, so I just go with the magic. I trust my ear so I'll be OK I guess.
It's weird 'cause my mom's the opposite - she scored 100% for sight-reading at the highest levels of classical piano, but can't write for shit, and I'm the polar opposite.
Every examination board thought she'd pre-learned all the pieces she was confronted with 'cause they'd not seen this before. Like I said, polar-opposites.
Monkey Man
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That's a relief to hear, Michael.
Seriously man, I've always been OK at math (but not algebra), so thought it'd be easy, but I can't read for the life of me. Forgot which lines and spaces are which notes by the time I was 10, not that I knew them apart from memorising rhymes.
There's a pattern here:
Arithmetic (straight numbers) - OK
Patterns in music - OK
Algebra (abstracted numbers) - Pathetic
Music notation (abstracted numbers) - Pathetic
Seems only the real deal makes sense to me. The second an "abstraction layer" is inserted, my mind goes to mush.
Seriously man, I've always been OK at math (but not algebra), so thought it'd be easy, but I can't read for the life of me. Forgot which lines and spaces are which notes by the time I was 10, not that I knew them apart from memorising rhymes.
There's a pattern here:
Arithmetic (straight numbers) - OK
Patterns in music - OK
Algebra (abstracted numbers) - Pathetic
Music notation (abstracted numbers) - Pathetic
Seems only the real deal makes sense to me. The second an "abstraction layer" is inserted, my mind goes to mush.