Orchid XP v8 nous illumina en ce 2008-09-21 15:20 -->
> Tim Attwood wrote:
>> That sounds good!
> 
> Yay! Recognition! :-D
> 
>> It's noticeable that you are reading though,
>> especially the pauses.
> 
> Um... no. Didn't even have the sheet music out while I was playing. I 
> can't read anywhere near that fast. It takes me a minute or two to 
> decode each note by counting up or down from the A-line.
> 
> As an aside, the top line alone has 32 notes per bar. Surely no human 
> being can actually *read* that fast. Indeed, just glancing at your 
Actualy, many can and do. With time, practice and dedication, even you can 
acheive that.
> fingers to check they're in the right place would take several notes' 
And you won't even need to check where your fingers are...
> duration. So I'm not sure how it's physically possible to read this 
> music at the same time as playing it.
Think about touch typists, they never look at the keyboard. Think about when you 
read some text.
> 
> In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this piece of music is only 
> playable at all because it's quite repetative and structured...
> 
>> It probably would
>> sound better to keep the rhythm going even
>> if you hit the wrong chords. 
> 
> You're probably right about that.
> 
> There are some amazing key changes in the latter parts of the tune; I 
> just wish I hadn't got such big pauses in there. (It's HARD though!) On 
> some of the takes, those pauses are almost non-existent (but I stuffed 
> up somewhere else instead). Ho hum!
> 
You only need parctice. When reading a partition as you play it, you need to 
read about 1 bar ahead of time.
With time, you'll be able to know what a given note is without "climbing" up/down.

-- 
Alain
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