At 2/9/2006 11:44 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: >I tell my students this almost daily. They don't get it. They read >rhythms the way our daughter read out loud at the breakfast table at >a tender age, "Hoe - moe - gen (hard G) - i - zed." I couldn't come >up with a better description of the way many student musicians >misunderstand the process of reading and absorbing musical meaning >from written symbols and fail to integrate the information. Written >music is seen by those people as a set of automated behavioral >instructions rather than as a language. I don't think I'd enjoy >hearing them read French either.
As a teacher who taught 3 or 4 hundred students how to read music, I only had rhythm playing problems with a half dozen.
It just seemed to me, that they had no "internal" sense of rhythm. They could play to a metronome, but without external input, they both sped up and slowed down (seemingly randomly) when playing alone.
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