Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 1998/03

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: marching band
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:35:14 -0500

Mark Charette wrote:

> SJayne3137 wrote:
> > Marching band teaches us
> > discipline by making us memorize our music. It isn't easy.
>
> Or you could take up piano, where memorizing music is de rigour,
> including very long pieces.
>
> I always wondered why other instruments don't have this as the
> norm - memorization, at least for me, seems to come pretty
> easily. After hearing the nth rendition of a Sonatina by Kuhlau
> by my eight year old I literally can sit down and play it. Heck,
> I can do it even _without_ the vitamin E :^)
> --
> Mark Charette | "This is a very democratic organization, so let's
> charette@-----. All those who disagree with me, raise
> MIKA Systems, Inc.| their hands." - Eugene Ormandy
> Webmaster of http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet, The Clarinet Pages

Memorizing may be easy for you but not for me. Even something as simple as
the melody of Yankee Doodle is a struggle for me to memorize. On the other
hand, give me notes on a page and I don't care how hard it is. Sooner or
later, I'll get it worked out.

You may wonder how I managed in engineering. It was easy to remember the
material. Things logically fit together and flowed into one another. I
did not have to "memorize." Somehow music doesn't seem to work like that
for me.

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD