Posted by brya31 on Monday, April 28, 2008
2 comments on “Second meeting with instructor”
bsed55 Says:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 @8:59:22 PM
I think you have a good teacher (except for that bit about reading standard music notation). The most important lesson or advice I was given was that if you can sing it, you can play it!! Don't worry about words. Humming is good enough!
FiddlerFaddler Says:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 @11:06:16 AM
Ear training is best, but standard notation can be useful. Let me count the ways for a moment: 1) you can troll the web for fiddle tunes (and when the notation you download doesn't match the vresion you heard, you can learn multiple versions and even synthesize your own Frankenstein version!); 2) you can pretend you are violinist and thereby be granted access to play for children's birthday parties, or your third-grader's Thanksgiving party; 3) you can play or corrupt at will hymns straight out of a hymnal (if they are not in the infernal key of D-flat); 4) you can have fun with computerized arrangements and playbacks so that you can hear a twin fiddlin' version of something long before you are good enough or smooth enough to play it well; 5) using notation software you can easily transpose anything to a better key (like A-flat to G or A, or D-flat to C or D); 6) it's easier to hornswoggle your classically trained friends into jamming/playing with you if you have notes to wave under their noses.
I hope this encourages you. Keep at it and maybe challenge your 7-year old to try and learn also, if for no other reason than to best dad in something (and groom a future jamming partner - you have to think ahead!).<
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