Reading standard notation

paul_c2

"You do what you learn" - if you learn how to read music from the outset, its second nature and there's no issue with reading music, its just a normal natural thing to do.

bingefeller

http://colorinmypiano.com/2013/06/03/the-role-of-intervalic-reading-when-reading-music/
http://musicnotation.org/tutorials/reading-playing-music-intervals/

It's pretty easy.  Maybe you guys call it something else but, from what I've been reading, it's being referred to intervallic reading.  

paul_c2

bingefeller said:

http://colorinmypiano.com/2013/06/03/the-role-of-intervalic-reading-when-reading-music/
http://musicnotation.org/tutorials/reading-playing-music-intervals/

It's pretty easy.  Maybe you guys call it something else but, from what I've been reading, it's being referred to intervallic reading.  

Agree with the articles. Its definitely something which can be useful as a time saver when sight reading, but you MUST be able to "fall back" to reading and playing notes with reasonable/sufficient proficiency. On another post here, I mentioned that there's "wrong" intervals like double diminished fifths, augmented seconds, etc and they'll bite you in the arse if you relied on intervals.

Also its worth bearing in mind that different instruments have differing ways they sound notes - for example, if your piece of music is on the piano, and is in C major (or A minor) and has no accidentals, you know its "white notes". And the guitar is different....but has a vaguely similar visual help, if you have fret markers at 3rd/5th/7th/9th etc frets. Some instruments (like, voice), simply don't have any visible way of illustrating the note to be sounded; and some have other ways for example woodwinds have a vaguely similar relationship to the scale of C (by definition....I know half of them transpose...) and brass instruments are sounding harmonics all the time; and their valves do 1/2/3 semitones lower etc etc.

Its interesting that they touch upon transposing by sight too.

viz

http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zpsbkbrgdeh.jpeg

paul_c2

viz said:

http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/Vizzage/Mobile Uploads/image_zpsbkbrgdeh.jpeg

These are artifical though, they're not real world examples? I've personally never seen a piece with a sharp key signature and double flats as accidentals, for example. But I've seen plenty in Db with double flat accidentals.

viz

Yes I meant it to illustrate your point - it's happy birthday.