Reading Music
I have been taught the basics of reading music many times. That is not my problem. My problem is when I try to step beyond the basics in rehearsal. No can do. I can’t simply look at a note and make the exact sound. I can tell which direction it is going (either up or down). I know if it is going flat, but I don’t know how to make the sound if the note is going flat. The same thing applies with me in a sharp note.
I just thought of a funny, random story. I was in my choir class in high school sitting next to a buddy of mine. The teacher was once again reviewing the basics of reading music. A girl in front of us started to pick her nose. Naturally, our attention silently went to the nose picker. We were laughing very quietly and were on the brink of being out of control. The girl finally pulled her finger out of her nose to reveal a huge booger on her finger. She kept staring at it. My friend and I knew she wanted to eat it. We held our breaths in hopes that we were wrong. We knew where it was going as we saw the finger go in the direction of her tongue. “No!!!!” my friend shouted. I was gagging to much to make any noise. I bet the teacher may have been answering some fundamental questions that class on how to read music properly. I blame it on the nose picker. That was disgusting.
When I am in rehearsal. I hold my own pretty well. I can follow for the most part. I’m absolutely in love with my digital recorder. That thing saves my life. The best way for me to learn - practice it over and over again until it becomes ingrained and memorized. Maybe one day I will have the time, patience, and desire to properly learn music. That would not be now.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Do you choose the pictures in your journal, or does the journal pick them for you based on keywords? They are so much fun if you are the one doing them!
September 5th, 2007 at 7:12 am
I choose the pictures and it is a lot of fun finding them.