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Re: Any thoughts on this?

Author: SpiritTalker
Date: 2014-09-29 21:49

Solo or Group, personally, I think being able to read the music you are playing is important. The two main reasons (in your case) that I can see are: 1) rather than limiting yourself to only what you can hear from recordings (or memory), a whole world of other music is opened to you to learn if you could read the sheet music for it. You may even find new pieces you love that normally you would not have known to exist. 2) the ability to read music will allow you to work on exercises to strengthen your skills (fingers, embouchure, range, rhythm, etc.) As a student I always found them tedious and boring but now, as an adult, I now recognize how important they are for development of a player and even enjoy playing them a little bit! (but maybe that is because I don't have to please my clarinet professor anymore or ready myself for juries....ugh!) I may be a little bias because I'm a music teacher (though currently not teaching) but honestly if you could discover the reason you have had such a difficult time learning to read music you may be able to overcome it. I suggest getting a-hold of a beginner clarinet book and starting yourself from scratch. Of course you will be able to fly through the fingerings and such but associating those fingerings with their corresponding notes on the staff, as well as their notated rhythms and such, will help you by leaps and bounds. Good luck!