Re: Pronunciation question...
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:19 pm
Yes, hearing the tunes, or at least the rhythm of the tune will help. As for learning to read music: I think that relying on the tab to indicate pitch will work for now. You need to look at how written music notates rhythm. For the tunes you're learning, it's pretty simple, and pretty much any basic music method book (for any instrument) will tell you what you need to know, or either of these websites will cover it, likely in more detail than you need right now.Dan A. wrote:You are correct. The books that came with both my Walton's and my Feadóg cover some basics of reading music. I suspect they contain nothing that isn't true, yet I can tell they have left out much that is. What information that is there largely confuses the hell out of me, though I have managed to figure out what a staff and a tie are. Learning how to read music would probably be easier if I had someone teach me in person, which is not possible at present time. The only other alternative is finding a source online that will not confuse me, which I have thus far not been able to do.s1m0n wrote:I suspect the OP - and pardon me if I'm wrong - is learning to play whistle by taking the pitch from tab and the duration from the words printed below the tab.
Edit: another possible alternative is finding the tunes on YouTube and trying to get the basics down with a few listens.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ ... ic-basics2 (video)
http://www.rhythm-in-music.com/fundamen ... hythm.html (text)