Gordon wrote:I find it amusing how many people who avoid notation, either because they haven't learned to read, or - worse - declare it non-traditional and therefore wrong, will advocate a slow-down technology to assist learning. By slowing down the tune greatly to figure out individual notes, both the lift and feel are altered. Kind of like reading the notes. Both spoon fed.
I advocate any use of technology one needs to improve one's playing,
slow-downers, abc, pdfs, XYZ-PDQ, canned Guiness...
But I disagree with your assertion. Even when a recording is slowed
down, the rhythm remains intact... and it will be learned along with the
notes. Once the tune is sped up (you should eventually ween yourself
off playing along with the slowed-down tune), the lift and feel will
remain intact.