Timeline for What exactly does practising scales teach?
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| Feb 23, 2015 at 16:33 | answer | added | Costagero | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 16:50 | vote | accept | Mr. Boy | ||
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| Feb 11, 2015 at 10:28 | answer | added | SomeAmbigiousUserName | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 0:43 | comment | added | BobRodes | It's more like this. Soccer players do a lot of long distance running. A striker will spend a couple of hours taking shot after shot straight at a goalkeeper, who will catch the ball and throw it back. That isn't playing soccer, but soccer requires a whole lot of running and shooting. Focusing on fundamental skills as a part of your practice regimen means that you don't have to focus on them when it's time to play, because they will be second nature. So it is with musical exercises and playing music. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 0:25 | history | edited | BobRodes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 22:30 | comment | added | amalgamate | Scales are a subset of playing music. It is possible to get less out of playing music than playing scales. | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 22:20 | comment | added | Darren Ringer | I think the "karate kid" analogy is perfect. And Stephen, it does not specifically teach anything that does not come from 'playing music' because scales ARE music. A scale is just a one directional melody with one prevailing tonality. Thus 'practicing scales' is just practicing a subset of all possible melodies. 'Blowing changes' is the same thing with monte-carlo sampling, but if you don't have any scale structures floating around in the mind already you're not likely to improvise melodies very fluently that sit in key very well. | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 21:51 | answer | added | Karl Bielefeldt | timeline score: 17 | |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 21:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMusic/status/565257061840457730 | ||
| Feb 10, 2015 at 20:13 | comment | added | Stephen Hazel | I wish the answers paid more attention to this part of the question: 'what specifically it teaches you that doesn't come from playing music.` | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 18:36 | answer | added | amalgamate | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 18:17 | answer | added | Rockin Cowboy | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Rockin Cowboy | Check out my answer to a different question for what for me is the most useful application of knowing scales Click Here - link | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:33 | answer | added | Shevliaskovic | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:29 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:13 | history | edited | Mr. Boy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | Mr. Boy | Note: English/American spelling are both allowed, editing just to change that shouldn't happen. | |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:11 | history | edited | Dom♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 17:09 | history | asked | Mr. Boy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |