Can you read standard music notation?

[youngthrasher9]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

I could barely read both clefs when I was playing piano.
I don't have a freaking clue how to read on guitar.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

Guitar gets the treble clef. Bass gets the bass clef.

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

It never had any practical use for me so I can't. I still have the respect for folks who can.

MIDI, trackers, sequencers and editors have always did the job perfectly for me instead. Plus ears, of course.

 

[TheProphet]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

For trombone, yes.

Guitar ... No. Then again I can't follow tabs that easy either.

 

[zontar]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

I can read it--why limit yourself?

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

Yeah. Music in school insisted on it but I went further at TAFE. I use it more for keyboard than guitar because it's not as easy to do it on the fly with guitar, as the same note can occur in more than one place on the fretboard.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

I can read a little very little some few basic melodies. But that's it. I want to learn more. I don't know too much theory but I try to learn that. My Granddad played the violin and he could read music off the sheets as if he was reading a book. Ad he was GOOD.

 

[CTN]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

for piano yes, but I can't sight read fluently. Then again I haven't played piano for something like 15-18 years.

 

[post toastie]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

theory yes. sheet music no.

 

[hareek]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

I can read music but I can't sight read well at all. In middle school jazz band, I would take the sheet music home, take the time to carefully learn it, and then the next day I'd be able to play it with the band and follow the sheet music easily to stay in time. I just prefer to play by ear and feeling, but it is one of my goals to get better at sight reading. Playing by ear has been a more useful skill for me in the music I play (rock and blues). Contrast that approach to my bass player who is so focused on theory that he can't hear when something is wrong even though he's convinced himself it's right based on theory. I guess my point is it's good for guitarists to know how to read music and site read and I want to get better at both, but don't neglect training your ear in the process either.

 

[guitarrob]

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I figure theory is a set of guidelines that are best absorbed and forgotten so you are free to create. That being said, I am still working on basic/mid level theory.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

I can do it. It's a good skill to have, improves fingerboard knowledge among other things; can't play all that lovely classical music without it.

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

Yes, but I'm not very good at playing straight off the page.
I learnt to read it and follow it when I was a choir boy at around the age of ten.

 

[dd12939]

Re: Can you read standard music notation?

For trombone, yes.

Guitar ... No. Then again I can't follow tabs that easy either.

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