Help req:Reading Music Lessons

Subject: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Rockhen
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 06:51 AM

I have a mate who wants me to teach him to read music. I read music myself but know it often helps to have a variety of approaches to make it more interesting.
Anyone know any good sites for helping with this? Ones that aren't too boring and heavy, cos he is only a guitarist...hee hee...whoops I sense the wrath of every mudcatting guitarist upon me! (It WAS said tongue in cheek...honest!)
Seriously, I am looking for sites that aren't really dull and uninspiring. (Or good books etc...)

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 07:24 AM

The "Progressive" series of guitar books provides a methodical reading scheme for the guitar but additional simple sight reading melodies are necessary (Richard Robinsons tunebook site?)

Guitar book One and Two - Brenton & White

A 'Supplement" book for each of these volumes can provide extra reading material.

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Tam the man
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 07:25 AM

don't use them at concerts or folk clubs in America or you'll get your head chew off

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Rockhen
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 07:52 AM

Is more the idea of reading music for tunes to sing etc rather than classical guitar style, as he can play guitar brilliantly already (creep creep if he reads this!)
So that if you don't know the song but have the music, you can learn it from the melody line plus chords then play it without music. I wouldn't dream of trying to teach a guitarist how to play it because I can't play it myself!
Thanks for the replies.

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Pauline L
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 11:47 PM

I recommend this site to all my students. It's a simple minded but fun game, and it works.

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Dani
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 12:09 AM

Thanks, Pauline!

That's a GREAT help!

Dani

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Rockhen
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 12:36 PM

Yes, thanks for that link

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 01:08 PM

Here's another one that may be helpful in learning the basics.....KT

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: GUEST,NH Dave
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 02:41 PM

Something I found very helpful when I was trying to learn a new song that I had not previously heard, such as a song in Sing Out, which everyone but me knew, was the old Quick Basic editor/composer in earlier versions of DOS. This program could be made to play a tune by selecting the value of the note, from its position in the staff, its octave, and its duration. All you had to do was simply key in the melody line by selecting the octave, letter note, and duration for each note in the score, and you could omit the octave if you numbered the notes sequentially from lowest on a piano to highest. Thus for a bunch of quarter notes you could key in 4,C,E,G, 8GC1, E1, or do it the hard way, Play "4C, 4E, 4G, 8G, 8G 8C1, 8E1". What you end up with is something coded in much the same way MIDI music is written in this site, before it is run through the MIDI collator/compiler.

I suppose you could crib a copy of Edit.Com or Edit.Exe, from an older computer and see if it still runs in a DOS window, on whatever WINTEL version of Windows you are currently using. Sorry, there is no comparative file for Macs.

Dave

Subject: RE: Help req:Reading Music Lessons
From: Rockhen
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:19 PM

Thanks for the music theory link and suggestions for Quick Basic editor. Will try them out, much appreciated!