sapphirefiber:ohthewhomanity:sizvideos:VideoBut…what about learning to read sheet music?What

sapphirefiber:ohthewhomanity:sizvideos:VideoBut…what about learning to read sheet music?What about it?Boo fucking hoo, technology is making music more accessible and removing the barriers associated with sheet music. Fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch.Yes, I said barriers.Not everyone is great at reading sheet music. I started playing piano when I was four and I still absolutely SUCK at sheet music. It’s just never clicked for me. I can identify notes, given enough time, but it takes me forever to learn a new piece, I often have to literally mark what a note is, and sight-reading is incredibly far beyond me. If I had access to this, maybe I would still be playing piano instead of just letting it gather dust in the spare room. Maybe I would still be improving my skills. Heck, maybe I could use it as a tool to IMPROVE MY SHEET MUSIC READING.Think of how accessible this makes piano music to the sight-impaired. How much easier it is to see those colored bars and lit keys than the little dots on little lines on a page.Stairs didn’t go out of style because we invented escalators. Books didn’t go out of style because Kindles are a thing. Sheet music isn’t going to just up and vanish because there’s a new alternative on the block. You can keep playing from sheet music if that’s your thing, and people will keep learning from it.But I can see this being fantastic for people who sheet music just really isn’t their thing, because of accessibility or other reasons.I second that.When I was seven, I started taking piano lessons, and I loved it. I LOVED playing piano and playing music in general. But since I couldn’t read sheet music and had a horrible time trying to learn how because of my ADHD (undiagnosed back in the day), I used to get my piano teacher to play a song, and then I would go home and learn it based on how I remembered the sound of the tune.When my teacher learned that this is what I was doing (four years later), she told me that I would either have to learn how to read sheet music, or she could not continue to teach me. Why this was the case I’ll never know, but the same thing happened six years down the road when I tried to learn guitar.I think this is a great tool and the second they become available I will definitely be investing in one, because guitar tabs made that instrument possible, but I’ve never touched a piano again and I miss it like hell. -- source link

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