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androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:57 pm

I've had to read music several times in the past. I played baritone in high school band, guitar in college jazz band, and classical piano on my own. However, my reading skills have disappeared. I was asked to play auxiliary percussion in the Xmas show with our community band, and I just couldn't get it right. Maybe it's because I just had one day of practice. I do great when they're playing big band tunes. It's all improvisation.

What I'm saying is after all those times of reading music and studying theory, I'm just playing what sounds good to me. I can barely dissect a chord. I wonder how many others there are like me and how many are famous.

Polychrome · Post by **Polychrome** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:16 pm

I know what I'm doing, but I can no longer read sheet music.

I bet there are plenty of folks who learned some music theory at some point, including reading sheet music, that later forgot skills that they seldom/never used. I still remember how scales work, chordal theory, basic keyboard playing etc, but I couldn't read sheet music without a refresher course.

I'm not famous, by the way.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:20 pm

I can read music, but I cannot read it fast enough to play it. Most of the music I play has the guitar chords above so I can find the key from that and figure things out after some time...

TechNoiZ · Post by **TechNoiZ** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:27 pm

i read music, in fact i do most of my editing using the score editor in Logic - which is one reason i cling onto it. If only EnergyXT had a score edit module ..... i would pay extra for that.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:37 pm

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:39 pm

Polychrome wrote:I know what I'm doing, but I can no longer read sheet music.

I'm in the same boat. In fact, coming from a trombone background, my treble clef reading was always weak. Lucky for me, my jazz piano teacher would always write out leads for me in bass clef (with an assumed 8va).

Last I really read sheet music was in the jazz groups at university. Even 3 years after that I'd lost most of it: did a musical playing bass, couldn't read the part quick enough live, so I reverted to writing chord symbols above each measure and playing the changes.

I can at least play a chord chart still with no difficulty.

I did pick up a drum book this year that went over breakbeat and jungle playing, and was pleased to find that my rhythm notation reading wasn't entirely gone.

I bet there are plenty of folks who learned some music theory at some point, including reading sheet music, that later forgot skills that they seldom/never used.

The old addage applies: "If you don't use it, you lose it."

I'm not famous, by the way.

I'd wager that the majority of famous "artists" (not "musicians", mind you) have *never* learned a lick of music theory or chart reading.

- m

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:42 pm

i cant read music and i have ABSOLUTELY no f**king clue what i am doing ...

... im not famous either

(some connection ??? )

slainte

rob

Mighty_Hero · Post by **Mighty_Hero** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:44 pm

I can't read a clue of music.

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:46 pm

androidlove wrote:Does anyone here know what they're doing?

Nope

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:48 pm

you dont read music you listen to it,its books you read.hehe you lot crack me up sometimes.

funkynuts · Post by **funkynuts** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:50 pm

androidlove wrote:Does anyone here know what they're doing?

I always know what i,m doing

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:54 pm

funkynuts wrote:I always know what i,m doing

doesnt that take ALL the fun out of it ???

slainte

rob

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:56 pm

androidlove wrote:Does anyone here know what they're doing?

Nope

[Sorry ..Posted twice by mistake]

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:57 pm

ianweb123 wrote:
androidlove wrote:Does anyone here know what they're doing?
Nope
[Sorry ..Posted twice by mistake]

...

slainte

rob

bucket · Post by **bucket** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:00 pm

The trick is to make sure you get it in the right hole, and I'm pretty good at that (except for that one time).