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Sherry can now sight read sheet music :)
Howdy friends,
(This post was inspired by an inquiry I just got at the helpdesk. ) I actually used Notation Composer last year to finally learn how to sight-read music. I know that it surprises some folks that I could have worked for Notation Software for so long, and "know" so much about notation, yet have been mostly a play-by-ear musician. It just goes to show that you can teach an old dog new tricks As an encouragement to others to stretch out and do something new if you're a play-by-ear musician, here's what I did. I'm celebrating my Golden birthday soon, so if I can do it, so can you I would enter my music sheets into Composer or find a .mid file of a song I wanted to learn, then use various tools that are available in Notation Composer to help me practice and learn. The more practice, the more familiar I got with what the music should sound like, and with how to play it on my bass. This season we've been able to take requests at gigs, and pull out the sheets and just play the songs, even if I'd never played them before. I could not have done this a year and a half ago (the rest of the band could - they've all been playing since high school, and many are/were music teachers/profs). At that time I could have played something that fit (eg. played by listening to what was going on around me), but it probably would not have been the little black dots on the paper Some things I did:
There are some videos available to walk you through some of the tools that are available to help with Practicing. You can find those (and more) at www.notation-software.com/TutorialVideos.php If you'd like to hear the band with me playing bass (and sight reading ), you can visit the Bill Denbrock Big Band's webpage at www.billdenbrockbigband.net/Denbrock_songs.html and listen to the clips there. If you have a favorite tool in Musician or Composer, or perhaps a novel way of using one, please let us know! Enjoy Sherry If you'd like to see more about my musical endeavors, you can visit my website at www.beanfieldcastle.net It's still under construction, but if I get questions, it may inspire me to get on with it sooner rather than later
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