Can anyone read and write music?
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Yep, can read & write music, although not done so for a really long time.
It's fairly easy once you get into it.
First played piano when I was in single digits & continued to do so for some years, off & on.
It was weird teaching myself guitar when books show Tabs. It was like an alien language.
It's fairly easy once you get into it.
First played piano when I was in single digits & continued to do so for some years, off & on.
It was weird teaching myself guitar when books show Tabs. It was like an alien language.
do you knopw the note names on your piano/guitar? that's all you need to transfer it on to paper really.....you just need to learn to read music to be able to write it!
if none of it makes sense like how long the notes last for/when to play them/chord names/timing then you need to look at some theory this website is quite good https://www.musictheory.net/lessons
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I used to and could re-learn easily but focus on tabs now since I compose with Guitar Pro.
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Read it, some of it. Treble clef no trouble, bass clef requires a double take, basically transpose a couple of staves and you're there though. Its a bit like reading text once upon a time you couldn't make sense of it and then one day it just clicks in the brain.
Spent way to much time on musical keyboards when I was a kid...
Heh, "Eat Good Bread Dear Father" is the one I heard
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I'm the same. Wish I could do the latter, or do it well.can do both but doesnt mean to say I can compose.
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You're picking on the wrong artist.
There is a story where he booked the New York Philharmonic and they turned up in jeans.
He gave them the music, they sat there puzzled so he sent them away, told them to come back dressed properly and he would teach them how to play it
Also remember it took the skill of a young Steve Vai to be able to transcript his music which got him a job.
I don't understand....
Philharmonic couldn't understand the way he had written down the music? Were expecting simple/relaxed environment so turned up in jeans?
Or it wasn't written down at all and needed transcribed by Steve Vai!?
Here's Steve Vai with the Karate Kid. Crossroads...good film!
https://youtu.be/uYW177hXFE8
Philharmonic couldn't understand the way he had written down the music? Were expecting simple/relaxed environment so turned up in jeans?
Or it wasn't written down at all and needed transcribed by Steve Vai!?
Here's Steve Vai with the Karate Kid. Crossroads...good film!
https://youtu.be/uYW177hXFE8
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Yes and yes.
Zappa is a musical genius and writes in very strange timings, when they looked at it they couldn't understand it because they are used to playing on the bar etc.
They basically turned up showing a rock musician no respect.