Purpose In Music Lessons One thing you should do in regards to taking music lessons, or any learning activity for that matter is to take a bit of time and decide what your goals in learning are. I’m not really talking about big long-term plans, necessarily, but something quite a bit simpler. One consideration is what style or genre of music are you mainly interested in playing? For example, so-called classical music relies heavily on note reading. Being able to play the classics requires fluency in note reading and a solid foundation in theory. Now pop music breaks down into a few categories. The songwriting end of it definitely requires much of the same expertise and theory as classical music and, if you’re going to be happy picking up song books off the music store shelves and playing them, then a good basis in note reading will take you to your goal the quickest. However, often has been the time that someone has learned a song from a piece of sheet music and then ...
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