I've started listening to classical a bit more recently (specifically Glenn Gould) and I'd like to be able to discuss it in some minor way. Also, I'd like to be able to vaguely talk about other music (guitar) but I'm tone-deaf. It's depressing. Can you really appreciate music if you can't 'talk' about it, as a style?
Is there a way of teaching yourself to recognise erm, movements and things in music? Are there guides you can buy (ideally CDs)?
i reckon
the best way
is actually to buy a gcse guide to music
it would tell you everything you need to know :D
really?
did you do a GCSE in music? If so, presumably, you play an instrument? I don't.
no i didnt..
i play the violin pretty good..so i had to do music theory to be able to take higher grades...and also i guess by playing a classical instrument you learn about 'movements and stuff' by playing in orchestras.
but. i did do music up to year 9 and i learnt an awful lot. i expect gcse music would teach you enough.
really.. :D
I'll take you up on this idea!
Ah, Lett's Guides...good times. x
i loved letts guides...
corr..
have fun! if you ever need any help (not too tricky) i might be able to help :]
x
I did a GCSE in music
I don't recall learning about movements but we did do some stuff on the different kinds of music and on how classical music pieces were constructed and stuff.
I got a C though so you'd probably learn a lot more than I'm letting on.
I guess that's what I want to know!
I'd be happy with a C!
So was I
I was crap at music :(
did you play an instrument?
I think I was a bit scarred by going to a really posh primary school where everyone had violin and cello lessons from the age of 4. But I'm basically tone-deaf, so it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
i played piano quite badly
and guitar. to be honest i wasn't that bad at the piano considering i'd never had a lesson, my composition was PRETTY AWESOME. i learned to love Chopin through GCSE music! ^5
I used to play cello too from year 5/6 and loved it but gave it up because i had to give my cello back to the school over the summer holiday and couldn't practise for two months and got really bad at it :(
I still regret it now, cello is the most beautiful instrument in the WHOLE. WORLD. *listens to giancomo puccini eeeeeeeee*
so yeah. Ahem.
i love the sound of the cello
but don't have any music that uses cellos, apart from my friend's recording of herself playing bach. It's really oddly uplifting, even though my past flatmates complain about how depressing it sounds.
Maybe you could take up the cello again?
x
*complained, rather
It'd cost me loads of money now :(
one day when i'm rich and famous i'll buy myself one and kidnap a tutor.
sure you can
start here: http://www.musictheory.net/
hey!!
Finally, a productive use of my time on the internet :)
Thanks xx
actually, that looks quite scary now
I suppose I just wanted to be able to break down the music I listen to, so I can identify the different parts.
Sometimes I can have trouble recognising a piece of classical music I've listened to about five or six times.
that site looks like its good
but not for a beginner
no way do you need to understand the scary stuff like triad inversion.
GET THE LETTS GUIDE :)
this is good
<bookmarks for a rainy day>
You're not tone deaf.
Otherwise you'd sound it when you spoke. How do you know you have a bad ear?
because my friend told me when we were playing singstar
plus I get the world's lowest scores ever on singstar as well.
It's true.
What's singstar?
Sounds perfect for improving my voice.
I found a PC version of Singstar called Ultrastar.
I'm not bad at it, but then I found out that you can sing at almost any octave you want, which is shit. I was probably singing an octave lower than the real thing. I want to match the record!
no, that just means
that you are bad at singing.
What?
You talk about what you want.
It is just the same as a pot-bellied couch potato football fan, say, who discusses team tactics and selection decisions.
...
Indeed it is - in that a pot-bellied couch potato fan can regurgitate as many stats as he likes, but the ideal situation would be for him to have experience playing the game. Then he has what we like to call in the trade 'perspective'.
Yep
Sometimes it's better not to know everything.
I've got relative pitch, which is nice cos If I know how a song goes, I can play it and have taught a fair bit of music theory
It has a weird flipside that I can't hear any music without immediately splitting the notes up and stuff!
^this
I don't know my crotchets from my quavers and my quavers from my twiglets, but I have good analytical skills when I'm listening to music. I know lots of people who can nail a complex piece of sheet music to a tee, but can't write their own music, which is quite sad really.
Sad as in boo-hoo.