Reading....

@chaski Said

I’ve been off novels (fiction) for awhile... and put aside my bibles (no reason to read them again).

Mostly I read nature & science essays... think Matthiessen, Quammen, Snyder, Muir, etc...

Side note: string theory is idiotic... just saying...

I’ve pretty much read all of Tolkien... J. K. Rowling... George R R Martin... etc... you get the point (maybe)...

Did my SciFi stage from Asimov to everyone else...

Various biographies & autobiographies...

Mysteries...

International politics... for all practical purposes that could have ended with Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau..,,

Etc...

But I’m loosing interest. 🤨

So I’ve started reading music.

The story line is slow... for now... we’ll see...

@mrmhead Said

"Reading music" - do you mean like the musical scores of orchestrations?

Or lyrics

Or music theory

history?

@chaski Said

Like the musical score... the notes, beats, rests, etc...

It is, admittedly, slow reading... in the past I would have said mind numbingly tedious...

@mrmhead Said

What kind of music?

Do you listen to the music before or while reading?


I can read music - for the purpose of playing, but not to sit down and read it like a book.
And a full orchestra score is mind boggling to me.



... you know the E G C F#A ... Bb notes etc don't make words ...

@chaski Said

Yes... "mind boggling" is pretty accurate.

Background:

I started picking up the guitar again. I had started learning 10+ years ago, but life got in the way. So now - recently - I started again. But now, I want to "read" music...

So, I was "reading" (trying to learn) the lines, time signatures... etc

Then, because it was classical guitar, I am learning/reading left hand finger movements... notes & cords...

So... example... notes A - A - E - E - B - C - B - A.... etc...
Then reading the note values... whole, half, quarter, eighth... etc...
Then since it is classical guitar... the right hand finger movements "P I M A"

Some of that being bounced off of (or compared to) "tablature" because that is the way much of the guitar music is presented (which I don't especially like)...

Then come the "rests" and the "ties"...

Then... because I am a nut bag... I start (for kicks) looking at "music ensembles"... etc...

Now, please don't get me wrong... I have not wrapped my brain around all this... but I can't help looking at it and trying to...

It is, at this point, very "mechanical"... but I'm starting to "hear" things... example... very small example... my 4th string (D) was off... I couldn't quite tune the guitar by ear, but could hear that it was off... it was very disturbing...

(Not like I was going to kill people, but it was getting in the way of my practice... )

So I feel like I am beginning to "hear" what I am "reading"... maybe...

And you are right... nothing like words. I can read Italian, Spanish, French... and if a word is not coming through, I can get the dictionary translation... This music thing is very different...

I feel like I am either on the edge of "understanding' OR very far from "understanding"...

Sorry for the rambling response... I've never been especially musically inclined, but I am working on it...

@gakINGKONG Said


It's important to read the bible in total and not just cherry-pick verses based upon how popular they are.