Compared to music notation softwares, it isn't capable to show musical notation like trills).
Synthesia/MIDI visualizer: For visual learners, these programs might certainly help them to know which notes to play without knowing to read the sheet music at all! However, just like with MIDI files, they are now locked into a certain playstyle they won't know if a group of 5 notes is actually a trill, or actually just as-is on the sheet music (while Synthesia is capable of showing a sheet music based on MIDI, it's still only based on the final MIDI data. However, they are locked into a certain playstyle depending on the creator of the MIDI file. Players might be able to play the music without having the skill to read sheet music. MIDI file: For auditory learners, MIDI file can help translate the sheet music into a sound that auditory players can "see" in their mind (or alternatively, "play by ear"). dynamics, tempo, articulations), that are usually lost when translated into a MIDI file (read: the expressions themselves aren't lost per se, but human players will have a hard time to guess if a note is a staccato or just a very short 1/32 note.) Sheet music is very expressive with their musical notations (e.g. Sheet music: I think most won't argue that this is the best media to use if you want to learn and play a music. The MIDI file itself is created based on a (supposedly original) sheet music, or otherwise arranged by its creator.Īs a self-learner, between a sheet music and Synthesia, I'd separate learning into 3 types: Synthesia is a program that plays and visualizes MIDI notes as " piano roll". If you're going to go through the effort of converting transcribed music to MIDI, you'll be at least learning the note names of standard notation. However one must still be able to either find MIDI files or prepare them for themselves. Which reduces the impact of the first disadvantage. They just care how you play it there and then.Įdit Apparently it just uses MIDI files. When you are performing a piece literally nobody in the audience cares how you learned it. That’s an obvious generalization but the music world is pretty well known for snobbery of all types. I don't know for sure but I am willing to bet ‘serious musicians’ would shake their heads in disapproval. You’ll be better for it in the medium/long term.Īs for the respect part. Otherwise you really should put in the effort now and learn to at least kind of read written music. If none of those advantages matter to you and you only want the easy way now so you can play a short piece for a talent show or something then you have the right tool in Synthesia. You can also get an ‘Aerial view’ that would allow you to spot patterns and such. When reading you can basically instantly get to any point you want. Jumping along to similar passages based on similarity is slow. And repeating sections can only happen at the pace of the playback. If you miss something you have to manually use whatever interface to seek the point you missed. Using any non written prerecorded format for learning music severely slows you down. Time - the biggest most significant disadvantage. #PROGRAMS LIKE SYNTHESIA HOW TO#
Jazz players generally know how to follow a lead sheet etc. Guitar players generally know how to follow a song by ear. By learning standard notation and conventional methods for you chosen genre and instrument you develop the ability to get started with others with relative ease. You’ll be limited in what you can play with other musicians or even strangers. You might be but assuming you rely on this format only I doubt you’ll be doing many scales and études You aren’t necessarily exposing yourself to technique building exercises. Also there would probably be only one or two arrangements of the song. While you think just about any song is there I am willing to bet that that’s not true. You can only learn pieces that somebody bothers to prepare for YouTube. What ever other reasons you can think of for why you do it now. You get to hear the song while you go along You don’t have to learn standard notation now Just like learning guitar music with tabs rather than traditional notation there are advantages and disadvantages. Whether it is the best idea or not in the long term depends on your goals.
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