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Topic: playing without reading  (Read 1335 times)

Offline beranger

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playing without reading
on: December 26, 2008, 11:56:22 AM
hi i'm an african and i'm asking to everybody if it's possible to play piano without reading partitions

Offline mad_max2024

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Re: playing without reading
Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 01:53:04 PM
Sure.

In classical music it's a bit hard, you'd have to get someone to read the sheets to you and memorize the piece. There are blind people in the forum that do that so it's possible yes.
You can also try figuring out the piece entirely by ear but I think that would be even harder.

But in Blues/Rock/Jazz and improvisation in general you don't usually read from sheets.
You just go out there and play.

Not sure what your goals are so that's the best I can answer.
I am perfectly normal, it is everyone else who is strange.
 

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