[Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions

[Chris Smart]

further, I am surprised you can't find a teacher 
who relies more on written music. Anybody who 
came up through the conservatory grades, i.e. a 
formal method, should be able to teach this way. 
Not so for the guy who teaches through the local 
music shop, who may or may not have any qualifications at all.

At 10:40 AM 8/23/2016, you wrote:
>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.
>
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>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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