and listen again; you
know it'll do you good.
As aye
Anthony
--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Philip Gruar phi...@gruar.clara.net wrote:
From: Philip Gruar phi...@gruar.clara.net
Subject: [NSP] Re: re notes v. ear
To: Dartmouth N.S.P. site nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Thursday, 11
I'm not an artist, but my wife is, and she swears by a book called
Drawing on the right side of the brain.
The premise is that the two halves of the brain work in different ways.
The left side (and I may have got this garbled, correct me if I'm wrong)
is analytical and logical, and the right side
When teaching an evening class on playing traditional music a while
back, I was determined to get the dots only players to play by ear,
visa versa too, so they all had the benefit of both techniques. Most
seemed to find it useful.
So after some weeks of working up to it, and following John
Philip Gruar wrote:
Can I just say, with particular reference to Richard's last post, that I
am in no way claiming any superiority for the classically-trained
position. Reading my post again, it looks a bit as if I am.
I didn't read that into it at all- it was just a comment by me on my
own
there.
Anthony
--- On Thu, 11/6/09, ch...@harris405.plus.com
ch...@harris405.plus.com wrote:
From: ch...@harris405.plus.com ch...@harris405.plus.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: re notes v. ear
To: Dartmouth N.S.P. site nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 8:03 AM
I'm
On 6/11/09, anth...@robbpipes.com anth...@robbpipes.com wrote:
When asked what the
third tune was, Robin said he hadn't a clue - he'd forgotten the tune
he was going to play and set off making a new tune up as he went along.
This has happened on several occasions with Border
Richard Evans wrote:
Philip Gruar wrote:
I'm sure everybody with a so-called classical music training here
(and jazz or whatever) - i.e. anyone for whom the purely mechanical
act of reading written music is completely second nature, does the
reading without consciously thinking about doing
Dave S wrote:
No one has so far mention the fact that classical musicians usually have
an ally waving a stick and hands giving them the colour, speeds and
breathing life into the piece they are playing -- namely his
interpretation of what the COMPOSER wished to convey from the dots, with
all
Here here! I was hesitating about saying exactly the same thing, only you
put it better than I could.
Cheers,
Richard
Philip Gruar wrote:
I think Peter makes just the point here that I was going to make, when
Anthony (I think) first started the debate. Also, Dick made very good
points.
The
Can I just say, with particular reference to Richard's last post, that I am
in no way claiming any superiority for the classically-trained position.
Reading my post again, it looks a bit as if I am.
I enormously admire all those who play mostly by ear. I think on the whole
they are better
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