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When you read music you are deciphering the printed page and transferring the information to the keyboard. You might state that you are decoding what the composer or organizer set on the page . The symbols set on the paper by the composer are the lone agency he or she have to impart his/her musical thoughts to the performer, hence to the listener.

But! Are decryption a page of printed music and transferring those symbols to sound really making music?

Not necessarily. That is only one step. We might state that reading the short letters with our eyes and playing them with our fingers is putting the mechanics to work. If we halt studying the piece as soon as we are fairly fluent in playing the short letters we have got got read, we may be good keyboard mechanics, but we may not be considered "musicians."

No uncertainty you have listened to a piano player and come up away saying, "That public presentation really carried me away." On the other manus you have got also probably heard much so-called "music" that left you cold—that did nil for you. Perhaps one ground we bask listening to "ear" players is the fact that they are listening to what they play and are not distracted by the printed page.

"Ear" players MUST listen to themselves or they would have got no thought of what come ups next. The music is really speaking to them. Always retrieve that until music talks to the player it cannot pass on anything to the listener.

What have all this got to make with reading music? You ask:"Is it incorrect to seek to larn to read? Since I can't play by ear, should I just bury about learning to play?"

The first inquiry will take a spot of item to take us from the printed page to good listening. Don't bury that the performing artist must be a good listener, if not the most critical of all listeners. If, as you perform, you go so engrossed in the printed notes, their pitch, their time, the touch, the dynamics—that you bury that all those things must suit together as a whole to do a good tone of voice story, then you are a short letter reader, not a musician. But you must larn to read fluently if you can't play by ear.

There are comparatively few people who can play from memory or by ear everything that is on the page, fully and accurately. But, you don't hear them waver and muff over the musca volitans that are unsmooth because they have got learned how to "fake," how to cover their errors so the norm hearer is not aware of their bloopers.

So spell ahead—learn to be a good reader. Not just a good missive reader, be a phrase-wise reader. Be aware of everything printed on the page, but read between the lines. Like a good actor, set yourself in the function and undertaking your feelings to your hearers . Don't allow your development halt with just reading pitch and time. Include those small nuances: the delicate shadings of volume, the elasticity of tempo�the phrases that punctuate your musical story. Those are the things that do music from the printed page.

Now you cognize your answer. It is not incorrect to larn to read fluently. Reading, as well as good technique, is a critical portion of a musician's craft. And the more than automatic your reading and technique become, the easier it will be to larn new music. That, of course, is the 1 large advantage the fluent reader have over the ear player—the player who reads can larn new music he or she have never heard.

Perhaps your 2nd inquiry is also answered. Of course, you can bask music even if you have got to delve out every short letter phrase by phrase. A few intimations may assist you make up one's mind how to take your music and how to travel about learning it. First:

Choose music that is well within your present degree of playing so you won't have got to work forever on once piece.

Don't worry about ambitious yourself.

Don't dub yourself lazy just because you play easy pieces. Who cares what class degree your music is? Just play the tune so beautifully that everyone desires to hum along.

Keep the beat moving smoothly and with the proper speech pattern so everyone will desire to tap their toes.

Put in adequate elusive alterations of volume to do the phrases speak.

Deviate from the constituted beat just adequate to heighten the natural flowing of beat to do the music come up alive.

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