So you hear this as the root: C (play cadence) Let me quickly show you what I mean and then also translate that to the guitar. The way you do that is by learning to hear music based on the key it is in which you might discover is easier than you think, mainly because you probably already hear music in that way. Reading music then becomes a part of ear training, and approaching it like that is probably one of the best ways to learn that will also help you with a lot of other things in your playing. This might sound even more difficult, but for a lot of music that is not as difficult as you might think. I think it is much more useful to look at the page and then be able to hear what that sounds like, because if you know what it sounds like then you can also find a way to play it. Maybe it should not be as much about how you play what is on the page but more about how it sounds.
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On a guitar, you can play the same C in many places on the guitar, but maybe the focus for learning how to read music could be different. Reading is often taught as a very mechanical process, and the problem that guitar players usually have is that you can’t just point at a note in the sheet music and then say that is THIS note on the guitar, similar to a piano. At the same time, I was reading all the music I was playing so it was never something that it felt like I had to work on that much since that was just how you played guitar. I started with classical guitar, so everything was reading music for the first 4 or 5 years, but there was one aspect of it that I was not taught that is incredibly useful. The argument I will make for why you can benefit from learning to read music is probably different from what you normally hear, but I also think that it is much more powerful. It is about what you need to learn and what helps you the most. What you really want to evaluate is whether learning to read music or any other skill, is going to be useful for you.
He learned things by ear which is something he trained his whole life. And Joe Pass not being able to read music does not mean that he was sitting looking at YouTube and commenting “got tabs?” or looking up chords in books with diagrams. but keep in mind that you are NOT Wes or Joe Pass. The same goes with using this as an excuse, if Wes Montgomery can’t read music then I don’t have to. It doesn’t strike me as a fantastic strategy. Making artists “magic” is fine if you want to, but thinking like that also means that you are already giving up on learning to play like them or that you think you are magic as well. You are a completely different person, probably in a different time and with different resources available.ĩ9% of the time I hear these statements used to either make someone sound like a “magic” talent or as an excuse for not practicing something that requires work. Simply because the fact that someone else didn’t do something doesn’t mean that not doing that will be useful for you. Not read any music, learn theory, never use a metronome, and not learn other people’s solos or study modes!Īs you can probably hear then it doesn’t make a lot of sense to use an anecdote or a myth as a way of planning your practice and figuring out if something is useful for you. So if I want to be better than Joe Pass, Wes, Guthrie, John Abercrombie, and Barry Harris then I should: John Abercrombie didn’t transcribe other people’s solos
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