Timeline for answer to (How much) should I focus on sight reading if my end goal is being able to play by ear on piano? by Malcolm Kogut
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| Feb 4, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | While there's a lot of interesting food for thought in this answer, I don't see how it answers the question. Instead, it's an essay about what comprises music literacy in your opinion. (I happen to agree with a lot of what's written here, but that's not the point.) It'd also be a much better answer if it were less confrontational ("offensive to many people") and more helpful (e.g., "this is a method that works well for me"). I hope this helps improve the answer! | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 16:49 | comment | added | Dekkadeci | Can you figure out the numbers for less tonal pieces? I guess you can for 12-tone serialist pieces, but I once transcribed a piece that had the F7/Eb - G7/F - Ab/Bb - G/A chord progression at one point, and I suspect passages like this raise difficulties when trying to assign note numbers to them. | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 13:38 | comment | added | Нет войне | I agree with much of what you say (+1), but once someone is familiar enough with an instrument, I think it is often possible for then to just pick out the notes of a melody they've heard without analysing it first. Many people without the musical training to identify intervals can sing a melody back correctly, isn't doing the equivalent on the guitar a similar skill? | |
| Feb 4, 2019 at 13:29 | history | answered | Malcolm Kogut | CC BY-SA 4.0 |