[Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions

[Chris Smart]

Eden, I humbly submit that you will still learn a 
lot playing some classical, and learning from a 
more serious piano or voice teacher who does rely 
on written music. Then, you can take all those 
skills - correct technique, ear training, basic 
theory, reading, etc. - and apply it to whatever 
pop or other styles of music you want to learn for the rest of your life.


At 02:54 AM 8/23/2016, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>My name is Eden, and I am a returning student to 
>the piano and hope also to become a halfway 
>decent singer. I am just learning to read 
>braille music using the Hadley course. I am 
>however having a hard time finding a piano 
>teacher. All the ones I find do not want to 
>bother with sheet music, they seem more 
>interested in having me play by ear. I, however, 
>do not have that skill maybe one day but not 
>now. I am seeking possibly vocal as well who 
>wants to teach the full music experience both 
>learning to recognize by ear but also who 
>understands the need for sheet music. I am 
>wondering if there is possibly anyone you guys 
>know of in Portland, Oregon or who possibly 
>would do Skype or other types of lessons via 
>phone computer or otherwise. I also am going to 
>try out the Dancing Dots software to use with my 
>braille display. How have you guys found 
>scanning to be of things like printed Pdfs. I 
>can not for the life of me find such things as 
>Tori Amos sheet music in a format I can use but 
>maybe I'm not looking right. I asked the site 
>selling the music if they could convert to 
>musicxml and they said that was against the law. 
>I wouldn't think so for this use case. I know 
>there is lots of sheet music at Nls, but I'm not 
>a big classical person and "popular" music 
>doesn't eWhy describe what I'm into I found a 
>few things but not many. If I am learning to 
>play and if I like the sound of a classical 
>piece, I would play it but I'm much into 
>piano-playing singersongwriter type things from 
>80s on up. Anyway where have you guys found 
>sheet music to purchase that will actually work? 
>too is Dancing Dots the only way to either have 
>braille or speech notation? Just wondering due 
>to the price. I read you could use Midi files 
>but also read that all the parts sometimes are 
>not notated correctly. I'm just wondering how 
>independently with anything I will be able to 
>find and read these sheet music. Also too if 
>anyone doesn't know of a Skype person to do 
>lessons, are there any good accessible online 
>piaaro teaching sites or singing sites? Sorry 
>for so many questions. I also would not mind 
>making friends in the Portland area to practice 
>things with or just to play around musically. My 
>email me at edenbledbjà -castddnet. Please 
>contact me offlist so as not to clutter if you wish. Thanks, Eden Kizer
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