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I have a rather odd issue with this wonderful instrument; When I was a young'un, my parents were keen to turn me into a musical virtuoso, and so very strictly enforced a piano routine upon me. Understandably, I hated every minute and I couldn't understand why every single teacher I had said I was "Talented", I still struggled with mimims, for god's sake! Anyway, the years passed, and I passed Grades 1 + 2 with a distinction, however at this point, I still couldn't read music; I had to take days to learn a new song, even if it was an easy piece. It seems that this strange talent that my teachers had spoke of previously was that I learn by ear, and improvise like hell; I found that I could compose amazing things, and that drew me into a downward spiral of completely and utterly self-teaching myself the piano and to stop going through the grades. As a result, I cannot read music, notation or anything; I make my own music, and if there happens to be a song I particularly want to play, I have to find someone who can play it, to watch their finger movements and the sound of the notes. I learned Toccata and Fugue in D minor using this method. Lately, I find myself detaching from the theory more and more, and so limiting my chances of ever learning to read music, and I'm deathly scared on how that could affect me. So what I'm asking really is, what would be the best way to learn how to read music without going through the repetetive task of "my first sight-reading book  "?
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Jul 14, 2008 12:04
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