> I just want to add to this discussion that, as is obvious from the number of different responses, "there is more than one way to skin a cat"!!!!!
Lisa-Marie - you are soooo RIGHT! We often forget that. Even for one person, learning methods may vary. I know perhaps I should be consistent in the way i learn music (like each time i want to learn a new piece, i should sit down and play it on the p iano, and then listen to a recording, etc. etc), but I am often not! Sometimes I listen to a recording a couple of times, many times i either am learning obscure music that isn't recorded, or I just don't have the recording, and instead i learn it on the piano first. Other times, I'll try to sight sing it. And still other times, I might get a good pianist friend to play it for me (very rare, and mostly done spontaneously so that said pianist can also hear the piece too!).
I do suppose that if you have a variety of resources (computer tech.) and can BOTH sight sing and play the piano well, you have many ways to get to your goal, and maybe that's a better thing, I don't know. I'm only speculating. It would make life very interesting, I would imagine!
Fiona
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