I am wondering how many songwriters use sheet music to play songs? There is a reason why i am asking.
I've always found sheet music very distasteful. To me, it's like trying to reduce something very pure (like the spontaneous writing of a song), into something scientific or mathematical.
I also find it disturbing when a musician cannot play unless he/she has sheet music in from of them. I have been writing songs for a very long time and I play music completely by ear.
I have never captured a song on sheet music and find it amusing when others do this to my songs so that they can play them. I've always maintained that if you wake up the next day after you write a song, and you can't remember how it goes, then it isn't worth remembering.
So......I don't mean to ofend anyone, but I think the true artists live and breath music and they don't have to write it down. It's just part of them.
I've always found sheet music very distasteful. To me, it's like trying to reduce something very pure (like the spontaneous writing of a song), into something scientific or mathematical.
I also find it disturbing when a musician cannot play unless he/she has sheet music in from of them. I have been writing songs for a very long time and I play music completely by ear.
I have never captured a song on sheet music and find it amusing when others do this to my songs so that they can play them. I've always maintained that if you wake up the next day after you write a song, and you can't remember how it goes, then it isn't worth remembering.
So......I don't mean to ofend anyone, but I think the true artists live and breath music and they don't have to write it down. It's just part of them.