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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield  I think you need to be reading music of things you are likely to play with other people/bands etc.
If it is always just a dry, academic exercise - then you are likely to forget it, or get bored etc.
You have to keep using these skills or you lose them.
Maybe rather than books you need to be looking at joining a group/workshop/jam that reads music regularly and looks at new pieces...?
If that's really not possible - then I think you ought to get sheet music of tunes/songs you like or would like to play - what music do you like - look for sheet music in that style? |
That is great advice. I just always kind of assumed I wasn't ready for that, but I should just jump in, huh?
I'd like to play along with anything--I'd love to get the music for classic pop like The Carpenters or Burt Bacharach and pretend I'm Joe Osborn
, bossa nova with Jobim, soundtracks of any kind, jazz standards (but they'd have to be REALLY simple!). Other forms like rock, reggae, etc. I feel I have a grasp on and would prolly never be handed a piece of music for in the real world anyway.
I guess the trick is finding music where the bass part notated is accurate with what's on a recorded version I can play to for reference.
