Timeline for Learn musical notation
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 20:12 | comment | added | Stan | In some cases, I believe that learning to sing the correct pitches (especially without a guiding instrument) can be extremely difficult. Solfege is still tied to absolute pitches, and would be extremely difficult to accurately and consistently represented by oneself without absolutely-pitched reference. And learning to simply press some keys one at a time shouldn't be too mind-blowing, and at least one wouldn't have to worry about range or singing correctly/sounding bearable.... especially difficult for those with undeveloped pitch differentiation abilities. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Roland Bouman | @AsianSquirrel meh. I never assumed the OP doesn't play instruments. My point is that the instrument can actually get in the way if you are starting to learn notation. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 13:28 | comment | added | Stan | I DVed (after much deliberation) because I felt that the answer didn't directly answer the question until the 3rd paragraph or so, and even then I wasn't sure why it is assumed that the asker doesn't play any instruments. Many self-taught guitarists, pianists, and drummers do not read std notation. Also, many people I know in choir who learned solfege 1st find std notation overly complicated; those that have learned both methods often advocate learning solfege 2nd. And like I said in my answer, piano is visually helpful anyway imho. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 12:31 | comment | added | Tim | I'd love to know why this was downvoted ! To add - teaching sight-reading,(on piano), I get pupils to tap R.H. and L.H rhythms, separately and then together, as the timing is indeed NOT related to the notes. They are two separate entities joined purely by the melody they make. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 1:12 | history | answered | Roland Bouman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |