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Salamandre
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posted March 11, 2021 07:22 AM |
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artu
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posted March 11, 2021 01:37 PM |
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blizzardboy said:
No, I'm not confused, lol. I'm still sticking with the common definition that literally everybody I've ever met and Wikipedia and Google uses rather than what one musician on HC says; one who I already don't trust.
Fair enough, but it is quite a problematic definition then, because, to continue Galaad’s metaphor (I’m guessing, he’s not the musician you dont trust, but also a musician nevertheless), there must be a difference in the definitions of understanding cyrillic alphabet and reading in Russian smoothly.
The ability to match sign with sound and the ability to read music fluidly while performing are two different things. One is about decoding the basic concept, while the other is about to manage a multitask. Sight-reading very much sounds like the name of the latter.
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blizzardboy
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posted March 11, 2021 02:00 PM |
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Galaad is a musician irl?
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Kipshasz
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posted March 11, 2021 02:25 PM |
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Salamandre said:
+1, joining a sopranos choir will greatly improve your sight.
Well, I heard that after his botched vasectomy that he had on his Mexico holiday, bboy has developed quite a wonderful falsetto.
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artu
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posted March 11, 2021 02:28 PM |
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blizzardboy said:
Galaad is a musician irl?
I dont know if he’s actually earning his life that way now but he graduated from music school, yes.
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Galaad
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posted March 11, 2021 02:38 PM |
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Edited by Galaad at 14:44, 11 Mar 2021.
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I graduated from Conservatory more than 10 years ago. I'm a professional musician. My major income comes from teaching in a music school.
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Salamandre
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posted March 11, 2021 03:08 PM |
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blizzardboy said:
Do you only consider somebody able to sight read if they can pick up a super complicated piece of music and sing it flawlessly in a professional choir? Does your city not have kids in school that sing as an extracurricular activity for fun or something? People dabble with it as a hobby you realize. It's not just a job.
I don't see why you get mad, is not about elitism but about what words mean.
Let me give an example : someone asks you to read for him, let's say, a poem by Baudelaire. As you don't know french, you will stumble on each letter, so there is no way that person will understand what's about, even if he knows french. You didn't read, you tried to spell unknown words.
So is not about the piece being complex, but about you mastering the codes and the punctuation necessary to communicate the meaning of all the combined notes you read. It can also be a very simple song, so you don't need to be a highly trained professional.
Music sight reading = being able to convey what a song/piece is about - regardless the difficulty, without being prepared.
What you talked about all the time is "reading notes". That some people call that "sight read" too is okay, we often simplify things when we ignore all the additional steps.
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