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From: Douglas Tate
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 00:15:27 +0100
Subject: Icky theory (was a funky thumb)

Featherman Mike (why does that sound ~so~ familiar??) says
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I think that's part of the chromatic mistique that makes diatonic
players a bit nervous--when you hear a good chromatic single-note
melody-type player, there seems to be a lot of learning-by-reading-music
that went into it. I think that many diatonic players just don't want
to do that.
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Learning to read music.... Wow, very difficult. Big Brain stuff, too hard
for mere mortals, you need to hire the tail coat, white waistcoat, etc
before starting on that stuff. What rubbish
OK, not quite what you were on about mike, but....
Written music isn't about sticking to something someone else has done, it is
about getting ideas from other people when there is not a CD player handy,
Its about being able to have something to jog your memory. Its about how to
jot down a tune you hear, Its about enhancing your enjoyment by wideniing
your horizons

The down side to all this is the time it takes to learn.
I teach, amongst other things, word processing to Adults (capitalised
because they pay money) It takes about ten 1hour lessons. I also teach
kids, we give them a sheet of paper and ten minute demo and then forget it.
Their expertise is about the same as the adults at the end of a few weeks.

I used to teach music in school, I've had over 5000 students, I've taught
all but a few to read music, and in the second half of the lesson they all
took down the tune Three Blind Mice from dictation at the piano having been
shown where the first note was. We used to have 45 minute lessons. Sorry
about the big investment in time but we thought it was necessary.

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PDM, I don't think music theory is icky. And now I need to inquire
about the difference between "nice" music theory and "icky" music
theory.
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There is none, but it got you writing and wondering didn't it!

Douglas T