The class on this weekend was an intro to reading music. Came to know how the notation is better and what dimension it adds to interpret music. Also came to know about things like Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra...some of the Classical Music Jargon. Its fun to know but mind you, I soo feel like a geek now :)
Most self-learners use the tablature to play a song or they do it listening by the ear. Of the two, listening by the ear is always better. Anyway there are drawbacks with both these methods.
If we are used to learn a song by listening, then the only option to try a new song is to listen it and then try it. Loads of Classical Music is stored in the form of Notation as, sadly, there were no recordings at that time. So it is not possible to reproduce all those old Classics.
If we are used to learn a song by seeing the tabs, the limitation is that they just list out plain notes. No way to know the timing, unless we hear the song.
But the music notation does not have these limitations. It gives the time signature, the notes, the duration of the notes, tempo etc. just about everything. So we don't need to hear to the original song to play it. If we have the sheet music for the song, we can play it in the exact way!
This site http://www.teoria.com/tutorials/reading/index.htm
has an excellent tutorial. What is wonderful is the Flash exercises towards the end to practise the rhythm and the notes. Too good to miss.
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