لا موسيقى القراءة جعل لكم أفضل موسيقي؟

Think musician, and you may picture sheet music reading. But, is the ability to read music important? How crucial is it for professionals relying on computer software? Toby Pitman explores.  

قراءة الموسيقى، إيه! إما أن تفعل، أو لا أميل لك. هاوس التي لبديهيا! كنت أتساءل في اليوم الآخر عدد القراء HUB أعتقد فعلا أن الموسيقى القراءة هو شرط ضروري لصنع الموسيقى، وخاصة في عالم الخلق الكمبيوتر الموسيقى ساعد.

أجد نفسي في موقف غريب هنا لأن كونه موسيقي محترف، أنا لا أميل نفسي قراءة الموسيقى. ثت جيدا ليس صحيحا تماما. لا أستطيع القراءة، ولكن ايم لا البصر القارئ. يستغرق مني بعض الوقت للذهاب من خلال العمل وذلك كله. عندما أقول بعض الوقت يعني حوالي يوم واحد!

وليس مثل أنا لا أعرف كيف كافة الملاحظات والقيم توقيت وعلامات يعني، لمجرد أنها لا تقدم أي معنى بالنسبة لي. أعتقد أنني قد يكون الديسليكسيا، موسيقيا! أعتقد أن الإجابة الأكثر احتمالا هو أنني لم البصر ممارسة القراءة لذا ايم ليس جيدا في ذلك!

قائلا أن ليس لدي أي مشاكل كتابة الموسيقى على تجنب بسرعة. الذي أمر غريب! الشيء إيف لاحظت أنه إذا أبدأ في قراءة شيء وأرى أن لحن، وأنا على الفور

يتعين علينا أن نعترف قليلا ايم تمزقها قدرتي (أو عدم وجود) لرؤية القراءة، وما أعتبره ليكون مزايا التعلم بالطريقة غير الرسمية (عن طريق الأذن) ومجرد جعل الامر كما ذهبت مثل الموسيقيين أخرى كثيرة تفعل . أحيانا أتمنى أن تنفس الصعداء ثم قراءة أعتقد لماذا أحتاج إلى؟ انا اعتقد ان هذا يعتمد على ما نوع من الموسيقى التي لعب وما هو نوع من العربات تقول إنكم الذهاب ل.

أول شيء أقول عادة الزبائن المحتملين الذين يقتربون مني لدورات هو أنني لا أميل القراءة. أعتقد ثت طريقة صادقة وأفضل لنهج ما أقوم به (ومحرجة أقل!). معرف يقول لي فإنه يفقد احد من كل عشرة وظائف.

الموسيقى كانت دائما تقليديا موثقة على الورق. ثيريس مئات السنين بقيمة الموسيقى مكتوبة على عشرات مما يسمح لنا لتخفيف وسماع أعمال الملحنين مثل باخ كبيرة وموزارت الذين هم منذ فترة طويلة ذهبت بالضبط الطريقة التي ينوي الصوت. ثيريس شيء مثل الاستماع اوركسترا مذهلة قراءة هذه تعمل back to نا تماما مثل الفنان الكبير قد قراءة مرة أخرى أعمال شكسبير بصوت عال.

ومع ذلك، تغيرت توثيق الموسيقى بشكل كبير حيث الآن يمكنك تسجيل الموسيقى والآن وبعد أن استمع إلى ذلك في أي وقت تشاء. ويمكن الآن أن سمفونية تخزينها في ملف MIDI MP3 أو ملف. يمكنك الآن توثيق الأفكار الموسيقية الخاصة بك دون الحاجة إلى لغة مكتوبة.

والشيء المهم هو أن نتذكر أن الموسيقى هي لغة. في الحياة اليومية، لا توجد السبب عليك أن تكون قادرا على قراءة اللغة الإنجليزية للتفاعل والتواصل مع شخص يتحدث الإنجليزية. كل ما تحتاجه لتكون قادرة على التحدث باللغة الإنجليزية. مع الموسيقى، تعلم اللغة مهم جدا إذا كنت ترغب في التواصل مع السكان المحليين (الموسيقيين)، ولكن في نهاية المطاف الموسيقى تتحدث عن نفسها، ويمكن أن يكون مفهوما من قبل الجميع، بغض النظر عن اللغة التي تتحدثها. ولا أن تكون قادرة على قراءة الموسيقى تجعلك أي أقل الموسيقية أو القدرة على التواصل أو فهم الأفكار الموسيقية. بالتأكيد لا!

ربما لديك رأي حول هذا؟ إذا كان الأمر كذلك رقم أحب أن أسمعه. :)



For the past 20 years Toby has worked as a professional guitarist, programmer and producer. Clients include Sir Paul McCartney, George Michael, Shirley Bassey, Yusuf Islam, Giles Martin as well as the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies. He has also worked extensively in TV, Advertising and Film. As well as composing himself he has also ... Read More

Discussion

Dave DeLizza
Depending on the type of gigs you want, can be the serious decider. A lot of the paying gigs that I've ever gotten that were not cover bands like playing in Pits at shows, it's obviously a necessity to read.

Also, at as a student of music, especially if you have any interest in jazz or classical, you are not ostracized completely but you are cut off from a large portion of literature. There are not a ton of classical and jazz tab books. They do exist, but far more in standard notation.

I always ask my students if they want to learn how to read music, but one thing that I always force them to do is to read rhythm. I teach guitar bass and drums. To me, being able to visualize the rhythm makes it so much easier to learn. Imagine doing math in your head without ever having written it down.

Nice write up an nice perspective, and I think you're right. To get paid and make music today, you don't need to read music. But there are plenty of reasons that you would want to.
ksandvik
It's easier to jot down notes for tracks if you know basic notation, at least writing down chord progressions. Similar if you want to play using Real Book and similar systems.
msonic
I don't know if you really NEED to read music to be a professional musician or if it makes you a better musician. I just know that I've gotten a lot of really cool gigs because I read music.
Paul Bissell
I have never found that reading music has detracted from my abilities to perform, produce, compose, transcribe, or any other music related activity that I have done for the past 30 years.

Quite the contrary, it has been one of the skills that has allowed me to move between genres and duties with little resistance; and in many situations made me one of the indispensable workers in a collaborative situation.

Need? That is completely contextual today as others have stated.

I think the best analogy is: Do you need to be bilingual?
Peter Schwartz
Paul nailed it with his first sentence. Personally I'm highly allergic to any and all quasi-justifications for a musician to not learn music (or, as an aside, music theory). To address several of your points... you mentioned the idea that a symphony can be "documented" by virtue of it being recorded. Well, you're not going to ever hear that piece recorded unless the musicians playing it have the original documentation in front of them -- in the form of a score and charts. And just because music is the closest thing we have to a universal human language, there's no equivalence in suggesting that learning how to read music might be moot. It's the difference between being in the audience and being a performer, and in many cases, between amateur and professional. Finally, if you're losing 10% of your gigs because you don't read music, that's a lot my friend!
matde007
Hi,

I discovered this discussion pretty late, but there are few aspects I’ld like to add.
I’m over 50 now and a classically trained musician (and I’m from Germany, so please excuse my bad English). I learned reading music when I was 5 or 6, started playing piano at the same age and started studying music (orchestral conducting) when I was 19.

At first sight this looks like a very classical education, but I was always involved in all kinds of music (jazz, rock, pop etc.).

I do a lot of arranging (for studio, live music, shows etc), and - of course - all of this music is written down.

A typical situation is, that somebody calls me to arrange some backing vocals for a song. When I come to the studio with my sheet music and find some singer there who can read music the job is usually done in 1 or 2 hours. Can you imagine how long it would take, if they don’t read music? If we really have to rehearse it instead of making a quick check? Time is money!

Another example:
think of any kind of orchestral music. Depending on how complex the music is you will never be able to hear exactly what the composer wrote (you will always hear what the conductor and/or the sound technician want to make you hear!). You need the score to find out. And then you might find out, that there are parts in it that you didn’t hear, or you didn’t understand. Without reading music there is no change to get closer.

Music for movies or games is a big thing nowadays. And there are a lot of people out there who would like to work in this business. First thing you can read in almost every book about scoring is: study the score of big romantic music. ...Wagner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel etc. - but therefore you must be able to read it.

And then there’s music theory: to achieve a certain sound, to write a proper second vocal line to a pop-song, to make a small vocal or string-arrangement sound big, to orchestrate your music in your DAW, to create certain musical effects etc. you should have good knowledge in music theory. But to understand it you should read music. An believe me: it’s very helpful mot just to follow your instincts but knowing what you do and why you do it.

I hear a lot of excuses from people who say that Hans Zimmer doesn’t read music, too. Or the Beatles, or („fill in whatever you want“). Maybe, but do you know who’s working in the background to make their ideas sound better?

One more thing: if you start learning a new language you’ll be taught a rule and at the same time 200 exceptions of the rule. That’s making it so hard.
Learning how to read music is so much easier: the system is totally logical. There are some rules to learn but there’re no exceptions to the rule. I don’t know, but maybe even here at macprovideo.com they’re offering a training (and if not they should consider it!) . ;-)

It’s not necessary to get happy, but it will open you a whole new world for your own music and your musical career.
Think about it. It's easy!

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