Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ken Moore wrote:
>>
>> Movable Do may help some people in singing by ear or from memory, but
>> it doesn't help playing.
> It absolutely helps playing. It helps one pitch the note before
> producing it, which is essential on almost all instruments, but
> particularly so for voice and brass. It is also very helpful for
> transposing and playing by ear (which, as a musician playing a lot of
> jazz, I do quite a bit of.)
I am sure you find it helpful, if you say so. I never bothered to learn
solfa and just learnt the sounds and staff notation for the intervals,
so that if I want to play by ear (in which case I know what the notes
sound like), I work out the note name directly and the fingering from
that. If I am playing a horn part or sight singing, it works in
reverse: the two notes to the interval to the sound. I don't see where
I could fit solfa into this.
> You DON'T need to translate, except when you do it out loud for
> classroom purposes, any more than you need to hear the sound of a word
> when you read English to yourself.
I do need to know the note name to play it in tune. Of course, the horn
gives you multiple fingerings for many notes, and these can be exploited
to correct tuning without changing tone colour.
> What movable do does (as David F. said) is teach scale relationships.
> You don't necessarily need the syllable for that, but it is a means
> to an end.
OK, but not the only one.
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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