I can really only read percussion music well. I can somewhat read for other instruments, it just takes a while for me to figure out what it is exactly. But for the most part I'm not that good since I just taught myself to play everything I know by ear. WHOOPS
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Vellain wrote:
I think that everyone interested in any sort of musical composition should know as much musical theory as they can so that when they go through their weird Avant-garde phase they can write something in the Mixolydian mode.
This is the part of the thread where we drink cheap bourbon ironically and reminisce about our post-blues period.
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washington
Frostbyte wrote:
basspuddle wrote:(going into drum corps next year)
LUCKY. What corps?
Just a little local corps, the Cascades. They perform in DCI but they're not the best.
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buffalo, NY
Telerophon wrote:
Vellain wrote:I think that everyone interested in any sort of musical composition should know as much musical theory as they can so that when they go through their weird Avant-garde phase they can write something in the Mixolydian mode.
This is the part of the thread where we drink cheap bourbon ironically and reminisce about our post-blues period.
LOL at the concept that mixolydian is reserved for 'avant garde'
I realize that post is full of sarcasm, but that's the implication.
Btw replace mixolydian with whole tone
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Gosford, Australia
nonono if you want avant-garde you need to devise your own system of notation and write symmetrical microtonal pieces for a cor anglais trio
or y'know, just be morton feldman
btw i can't sight read music lol
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Matthew Joseph Payne
Any non-western scale is for "avant garde".
i b4 someone says "I only read graphical scores."
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México, DF.
Fo sho.
danimal cannon wrote:
Btw replace mixolydian with whole tone
btw replace whole tone with sim dom.
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Austin, Texas
kineticturtle wrote:
Any non-western scale is for "avant garde".
i b4 someone says "I only read graphical scores."
I see you've met my ex girlfriend. 
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Godzilladelph
been reading that shit my whole life. does it matter? not really.
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Chicago IL
i can look at sheet music and figure it out, but i never understood why people though that was a better method than just memorizing how to play something. aint no pages to turn in your mind.
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Savannah, Georgia
Saskrotch wrote:
i never understood why people though that was a better method than just memorizing how to play something. aint no pages to turn in your mind.
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Brunswick, GA USA
Saskrotch wrote:
i can look at sheet music and figure it out, but i never understood why people though that was a better method than just memorizing how to play something. aint no pages to turn in your mind.
In my experience as well as in my lessons, you didn't know a piece unless you could play from memory.
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Saskrotch wrote:
i can look at sheet music and figure it out, but i never understood why people though that was a better method than just memorizing how to play something. aint no pages to turn in your mind.
So we can play and understand shit a couple hundred years later. Bach never had Audacity dude.
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uhajdafdfdfa
i thought sheet music was for learning a thing when you are in the stage before you have memorized it
i mean you have to play something quite a lot of times before you have memorized it and if it is several minutes long or particularly complex it might not be that easy to do it by ear