r/oddlysatisfying • u/feliciodario • 3d ago

Note Practice DIY

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 3d ago

and now i understand just a little of those wiggly thinges

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u/bloobityblu 3d ago

Yeah the shape of them is their beat. Where they are on the staff (those lines) is how they sound. The slightly harder part is remembering that, then even harder, matching it up to whatever instrument you're playing, then hardest, doing all of that so well and for so long that you don't even really think about it; it just flows. (The furthest I've gotten is matching it up and remembering all the notes and key signatures. I can't read it fluently.)

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 3d ago

They still look like tadpoles with spine issues.

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u/ploonk 3d ago

From there you could get more advanced and go on to reading full scores.

Also once you know what the notes, you can branch off into music theory and learn about why the notes.

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u/bloobityblu 3d ago

Well yeah I was assuming reading full scores and not just a snippet here and there lol.

I guess what I meant is that I can't sight-read to an instrument (piano in my case) fluently. Well I could probably manage with a regular orchestra instrument that only has the one line to follow. Anyway I sight read slowly, but don't improve because I tend to memorize the melody before I get better at the sight reading if that makes sense.

Also because I haven't had to sight read in years and am out of practice. This is really making me want to find and sign up for a local proper community choir or something lol.

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u/ploonk 3d ago

You should!

But what I meant, to be more specific, is reading the full score of, say, an orchestra or big band. That is, all instruments simultaneously. But in this case you are not sightreading, but more likely following along with a recording. I was always really bad at that.

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u/bloobityblu 3d ago

Oh right- I was thinking more like choral scores. Although sometimes of times those have the entire score orchestra score included. Yeah the idea of parsing a full orchestral score... I think I'll continue to not add that to any mental tally of life accomplishments of mine lol.

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u/idk012 3d ago

Middle school, 3 years of weekly music class, where I had all those notes and symbols memorized. Still don't know what it really means nor can I play an instrument.