What are some mistakes or errors of thinking that you made when learning music?
One that I can recall: I’d been learning the recorder at school, and they hadn’t taught us to read music. I had some keyboard sheet music that I wanted to play on the recorder, so I decided that I’d figure out how to read the music. The music had chord symbols on it, and I thought they were a guide to the notes in the melody. I soon figured out that this was wrong, though, as I could see that the notes in the top line of the music were changing position far more often than the chord letter symbols were changing.
A couple of months later, I took up the clarinet, and I was taught to read music.
What errors have others made?
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I confused the alto and bass clef.
I couldnt tell the difference between cello and viola (when listening) until I was about eleven.
I used to color in flats…
I confused dorian and hypo-dorian modes.
Sight Reading Music
I guess one that creeps up on me fairly regularly is music with capo chords for guitar written. and starting off in the wrong key.
Example something in F (Capo 3) … First guitar chord is “D”, the first note, is the tonic (F), but I play F# (thinking “third degree of the scale”)
… I can make my way through as a piano solo (If I know the changes, and DON’T look at the music) but I’ve got to start over if we’re playing as a group.
(Obviously this happens with popular vocal, keyboard, guitar transcriptions, not with proper sheet music.)
How to Sight Read Music
The fact they don’t teach you sight reading is definitely wrong. They should do that.
Well I am doing a lot of mistakes, every body does that. I am a music teacher and as you can understand you cannot escape from the mistakes as you always have something more to learn.
Learning to Read Music
I had a terrible habit of ‘improving’ the composer’s harmony, “surely he meant B-natural”, I have managed to stop (mostly).
Sight Reading Music
When I learned organ, I thought principle stops were flutes… How embarrassing… hahaha
I also had a serious problem learning glissando’s on the piano. I thought you pushed down on the key hard(ouch!) and slid all the way, which once led to bleeding on the piano. Then I figured out that you don’t actually have to press down hard, but just graze(ahhh… so much better) the tops of the keys… That was one painful flop I had…
A silly mistake was when for some reason, I thought (okay, I was like
that dynamic hair pins were just big accents that meant you accent all of the notes they cover.
oops…
How to Read Music Notes
Confusing the two clefts. I think its bass and alto?. I used to play cello and was absolutely horrible at it, then I took a piano class and was pretty good at that! But I would mess up the two clefts. Or I would assign the wrong note to what it said on the sheet music, I play c when it was an a, or whatever. I’m one of those people who has to practice a lot if I want to get good at something, I’m not naturally good.
Learn How to Read Music Notes
All through high school, I thought that “subdominant” meant “below the dominant.” And it took me figuring out the RIGHT answer before I could keep mediant and submediant straight…
Learning to Read Music
Many years ago I decided to play Ravel’s “Concerto pour la main gauche en re mejuer.” (Concerto for left hand in D major). Not knowing what gauche meant, proceeded to learn it using both hands.
When I played a very small portion of it for my piano teacher, she pointed out my error. Embarassed I dropped the piece and have never picked it up again.
Ever since then I keep a music dictionary within arms reach of the piano.