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Originally Posted by trpt2345  Excellent and essential points. For some reason when you learn something by "eye", i.e., reading, it has a harder time getting into your long term memory than if you learn it by ear. There are solos I learned by ear twenty years ago that I can still remember that I never wrote down.
Michael McLaughlin |
Michael - I obviously agree totally. I once was told by a very very big name artist NOT to write down transcriptions because then I would rely on the sheet music and not my ears. His whole point was that jazz is something internal within your ears and that you can't fully develop your ears when you rely on sheet music. The older I get and the more experienced I become, I agree with his sentiments more and more. I'm at the point of learning tunes off recordings and only refering to the lead sheet when need to correct some difference between the version I have on record and the actual head, and to memorize and then FORGET the changes!
Peace
and GOOD VERY GOOD THREAD!
Matt