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By Ernesto | December 3, 2007
A short addendum to my last post about ear training:
I was just thinking about the usual analogy between learning music and learning a language.
Learning a language usually consists of various activities: listening, reading, speaking, taking dictation…sound familiar? Yeah, sounds a lot like ear-training class, doesn’t it?
And this whole thing about being able to write and read music on paper without an instrument really comes down to being literate with music. Just like when a kid is learning to read, and it takes him a while to decode the letters and work out the phrases. Or when you’re learning a foreign language, and you need people to talk slowly for you to understand it. Not to mention that you have to talk slowly as well to wrap your tongue around those new pronunciations (I’m currently staying in a town called Perchtoldsdorf. Try saying that really fast if you’re not German.)
With time it gets easier, and you start speaking and hearing just as a fast as a native speaker without even flinching.
Reading and writing music is the same thing. You just have to spend a lot of time working with it…sight-singing, transcribing, reading scores, etc… And the more you work with it, the faster you’ll improve.
That’s all.
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