Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 3:42:02 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-02-10 9:17 p.m., songbird wrote:

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-10, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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You can be a musician without improvising.  Hundreds of years of
art (classical) musicians have done so.

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   soloists?

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They're very limited in the amount of interpretation they can do.
The composer writes the notes, and the soloists have to play them.

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   your music appreciation class may have covered it and
you forgot or...
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There is a world of  difference between classically trained symphony
orchestra musicians and the people playing modern popular music. Most of
them play by ear because they can't read music. What they do know is
chord progressions and how to transpose.
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One of the guys who played with us a few times was very envious of us
being able to jam. Despite have take conservatory lessons, frequently
playing with his FiL was a professional musician, and being married to a
music teacher and professional musician. If he had sheet music and  time
to practice he could play the melody but forget about picking it up by
hear. He couldn't figure out a simple three chord progression unless wee
wrote it out for him.

Reading music is cool. The main problem is that a lot of people sound
like they're reading notes off a piece of paper instead of expressing a
feeling/mood/memory. One of my favorite book has a piece that, in the
middle, has no notes - just the chords. Whoa! That was a shock. Some
people would like that in a piece of music but I don't have the chops to
pull that off. Frederic Hand sure does - he wrote the piece.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rbaDrpRcLaHqPasC9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzJViUbnxo