@Charles_Hawtrey @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @CanisPundit @tgraph52 @codeWhisperer @t_heislen @jdtasker

Ugh. LOL 😉

This will NOT succeed.

(Also -- Zappa said Mickey's book helped him get his chords up to snuff. So props are in order. More ugh. 😆)

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@InUnfunky @Charles_Hawtrey @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @tgraph52 @codeWhisperer @t_heislen @jdtasker

Hey, I said that! I have mixed feelings about not learning much of the single note exercises, but I was introduced to THE book when I was 15 or 16. Kids right?

@CanisPundit @InUnfunky @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @tgraph52 @codeWhisperer @t_heislen @jdtasker

I learned what little music theory mostly from playing trumpet and baritone horn when I was a kid, studied a little bit to read bass clef 10-15 years ago. Always too lazy to learn to sight read well.

@tgraph52 @Charles_Hawtrey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @codeWhisperer @jdtasker
I tell students that the staff (and really, written notation in general) and the guitar aren't great friends...you want to learn to extract the needed information from the page and run away...

@t_heislen @Charles_Hawtrey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @codeWhisperer @jdtasker

Nobody in my old old band could read music or had any formal training other than some piano lessons at very early ages.

Everything was just by ear... But my brother learned trombone through school and never learned to improvise...

2 different paths is all.

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@tgraph52 @Charles_Hawtrey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky @Bix @evamarie @Mfieck @JoyfullyDazed @CinnamonGirlE @codeWhisperer @jdtasker Single-line instruments with limited alternative note positions and keyboards are quite fine with the page (even bass guitar), and formal training needn't be an impediment to improvisation, depending on how you're taught - after all, improvisation was considered a core skill in Bach's day...it's a failing for that to have fallen aside.

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