Turn to Gold
Apr. 5th, 2020 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootThe sunshine came in, not with Spring's pale clarity, but the deeper rounder yellow that seems like such a laughing colour; Summer is not so far away.
I'm trying to learn how to read music. It makes no sense! Who divides the line into five mini-lines and then starts on the second one up? Counting up from E on the bottom line to work out what the other notes are, whut? Why can't it be eight lines for an octave, with the lowest note starting on the lowest line? A half hour lesson baffles me so much I have to stop, to spend time mulling it over and still be unsure. Here's the horrible truth; they call Music another language? Pah! Music is pretty maths. Fact.
I'm trying to learn how to read music. It makes no sense! Who divides the line into five mini-lines and then starts on the second one up? Counting up from E on the bottom line to work out what the other notes are, whut? Why can't it be eight lines for an octave, with the lowest note starting on the lowest line? A half hour lesson baffles me so much I have to stop, to spend time mulling it over and still be unsure. Here's the horrible truth; they call Music another language? Pah! Music is pretty maths. Fact.
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Date: 2020-04-08 11:30 am (UTC)Being half the size of a standard keyboard, it didn't quite represent the full scale (unfortunate and unintentional word play) of the concept I was trying to teach but captured enough of the so-called grand staff--with middle C in, well, the middle--to demonstrate the principle.
However, to your point, it did have a volume control, headphone jack and, most importantly, would mostly be used at his mother's house, lol.
Wishing you and yours the unfettered blessing and joy of music!