Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2014 17:26:19 GMT
Just to start up a new thread, I thought I would pose the age-old question of whether learned music is fundamentally an aural or a visual skill? Particularly for those here who presently teach or who in the past have been music teachers, what is your experience? Do you feel your students fall into 2 camps, one where they can really only learn music by reading it from the page and one where the music seems naturally built or hardwired into them and thus it just becomes a matter of finding a way of bringing that out? Myself, I could only teach from the page because firstly, that was how I learned music myself and secondly, I am not 'hardwired' musically, meaning my ear abilities are quite limited. However, during my teaching years, I did run into quite a range of students and I have a number of stories that I could share about all of this. However, I would first be interested in hearing a few of your own experiences, both personally and professionally pertaining to the ear-eye aspects of learning music.