[HANASHIR:1565] Re: code for melodies -Reply

[Carol Anderson <caanders...>]

hi Karen, no you aren't the only one. I also tape things and listen to them
in the car.  I was in Sound of Music last spring  (Everyone joked about me
being a Jewish nun) I asked the music director to sing the alto part for me
and I just listened to it when ever I was in the car.  which is a lot. I
can read music and play it on a piano but I can't read music and just sing
it. I have to hear it first.

when I read these codes everyone is sending I can sit down at the piano and
play them notated that way.  but I can't look at it on the screen and hear
the music in my head.  my husband on the other hand can.  he has been
whistling them to me.
Carol

>Boy, do I feel like a dummy...I must be the only one who is totally lost and
>can't even begin to read this code.   And I thought I was doing well, learning
>to sight-read for the high holiday choir this year!  :(
>
>My methodology for learning "new" songs is to play a cd in my car on the way
>to work and back.  Within a week, I have usually learned most of the songs on
>the cd.  I guess I am mostly a learn/sing/write by ear kind of gal.   Anybody
>else like me out there?
>
>-Karen D.