Re: Re: Re: visualizing another instrument


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Posted by C(G) on December 09, 2003 at 11:00:54:

In Reply to: Re: Re: visualizing another instrument posted by Mary Ann on December 09, 2003 at 09:42:19:

When you're playing "by ear", do you find yourself visualizing playing the melody on a piano keyboard first? I sometimes do. Even when I sing solfege, I see a keyboard in my mind's eye.

Damned nasty habit, that's what it is. Like you, I started piano very young and I think my brain just got "wired" with that spatial model for musical notes. I wonder how much visualization might be improved if young musicians were trained on some sort of three-dimensional instrument, with, say tonal color extending forward and backwards and volume from upward to downward.





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