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Interesting fact: If your eyes were as acute as your ears, you could see a lit candle on the moon. This gives you some idea of how developed our sense of hearing is, and how everyone can hear music in great detail. But, like learning a language, you need to learn the parts that make up the language.
Music is a language. It allows us to express ourselves. I believe that learning by ear is paramount to any musician’s development. It is after all by listening and copying our parents and early teachers that we learn how to speak our first words.
The same goes for music, and I feel this is the best method for learning any instrument, as it gets you listening right from the start, rather that concentrating on a page and being detached from the sound. This way of learning is also more fun that learning page after page of exercises!
Music is a universal language. This means whether you want to play rock, jazz, classical, or any other type of music, we all have it in us to be able to play it, you just need to learn the specific vocabulary for that genre.
Of course knowing how to read music is very important, as is being able to read text, but learning by ear I believe leads to a deeper understanding, and greater love for playing, writing, and listening to music.
