There are high and low horses, some people seem to ride on very high ones.

I once saw a program on one of my (then) favorite composes, Elvis Costello, he was working at the time with the Brodsky Quartet and had to finalise some parts. Costello basically sat at the piano and composed a whole album in an afternoon. The Brodsky Bunch bragged about how they were able to score his compositions as fast as he could play them, he in turn amazed by their notational skills.

Decide for yourselves who was the most capable. Stories have been around for a lot longer than books, the ability to tell them has never been limited by pencil, paper, nor the knowledge of how to use either - the first 'authors' just wrote other peoples books for themanyway . If music is not in your body then it is definitely not going to suddently appear out of your biro and rest itself on a scoresheet. I mean we can all write or otherwise we would not be on this list but how many of us have a decent novel inside of us?

If you can use your ear, man, use it. Let some other mother put it down on paper.

Nick.

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:43:31 -0700
> From: bob@mellowood.ca
> To: gnome@hawaii.rr.com
> CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Qtractor vs Rosegarden
>
>
>
> david wrote:
> > Matthew Smith wrote:
> >> Quoth Rui Nuno Capela at 2008-11-12 18:57...
> >>> major qtractor cons;)
> >
> >>> - no score/notation editor
> >> Also not an issue for me - I have never learned to read musical
> >> notation, I just play 'by ear'.
> >
> > IMHO, that is your greatest limitation right there. Learning to read
> > musical notation is very easy.
> >
>
> I've got to chime in on this point! Completely agree. To me, at least,
> not knowing how to read music is just like being a novelist and not
> being able to read English (fill in your language).
>
> The sad thing is that folks have a conception of music reading be "very
> hard". It really isn't ... the reason of music notation looking like it
> does is that thousands of musicians have developed it over hundreds of
> years (much like free software!). Other people I know say things like "I
> don't read music ... it's much too hard ... I can only read TAB". I have
> given up being rational with these people and don't even roll my eyes
> anymore.
>
> I'm not saying that one can't play and enjoy music without knowing how
> to read. But, a bit of knowledge in reading would make the process much
> easier and fun for them.
>
> Sorry for the rant!
>
>
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