Whether you’re playing originally from paper or not you’re involved in listening. It isn’t his problem.īeing used to using sheet music does not inhibit anyone from picking up tunes by ear ( I’m sure there are people on this forum who think it does) except ,maybe, in the sense that you might have developed some sort of psychological fear that you can’t do it. You mean because he says “My problem now is that I’ve gotten so used to sheet music that I can’t learn a tune on the fly (by ear).” ? This is only how he, as a fairly beginner musician, perceives his problem. Push the notation-free speed when you can begin to do this. It is almost a magical process when it astounds you that you can put the notation away and just play along. At some point during the learning “let go” of the notation and start to hear and play along. This is how the great teacher and Master cellist Pablo Casals taught. Again there is an accompanying CD with all tunes played solo by Matt - the excellent recording is very crisp and clear and true to the notation.Īnd finally just a suggestion gleaned after about 6000 hours of practice: Begin at 35 percent - learn the tunes at 35 percent with the notation. Irish Fiddle Tunes - 62 Traditional Pieces for the Violin. The next thousand hours could be perfected with Matt’sĢ. Best not to wander around but to stay with the sequence of tunes he has presented (learned this from my experience of beginning with a tune I liked and skipping around). The accompanying CD has Matt playing along solo fiddle and is true to his written notation. Tunes are thoughtfully and intelligently introduced in a way to build layer upon layer of ability. You probably could stay with this book alone for a thousand hours. The Irish Fiddle Book: The Art of Traditional Fiddle Playing. Matt Cranitch offers books with accompanying CDs of the tunes notated in the book.ġ. I would like to offer an alternative to buying a lot of music: There could be no end to that. If I have to I’ll start buying all of the albums I’m currently trying (and failing) to figure out by ear.” “ (I haven’t bought nearly enough music yet). It takes time to burn in the new neural pathways - to create new synapses and perhaps new neurons - shorter time in children - longer in adults but can and does happen. Finally, to play solo, without the sheet music and without the slow downer at any speed is most difficult and gets only a little help from prior practice with notation and/or playing along at speeds of 35 percent to 100 - this is the most difficult of the three.Īll this from functional MRIs and the relatively new neurophysiological field of Brain Plasticity. Ear to auditory cortex and back out to motor pathways to left and right arm when playing along with a recording or another musician 3. Visual to sheet music and then to auditory 2. Good to remember that probably are three neuronal pathways and cortical areas when learning a tune: 1. At that rate, sheet music should be only minimally needed to play along if at all. Recent update allows tunes to be slowed to 35 percent rather than 50 percent.
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