Not if you buy into the koolaid. The story is usually the same; the tool differs. A company decides to solve some problem and to get performance cycle “exposure dollars” someone posts a corporate tech blog post as a recruiting tool which then gets pumped and hyped by the advertising and PR dollars and a conference circuit follows shortly thereafter. The approach gets accepted as a “standard way” of doing something because the exposure crowds out anything else (he who screams the loudest). The benefit to the company is that if you know the tool before you join then there is less time spent ramping up and training on the job. Very often there’s virtually no benefit to the outside world but other approaches are soon forgotten due to indoctrination.
The reality is that context matters and it’s always the best approach to analyze your own problem carefully. Analyze the problem, seek quantifiable evidence (not just hearsay and opinion or social proof), lest you end up climbing in to your home through a high tech carbon fiber ladder to the roof, through the chimney instead of using a key and the door.
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Although the upfront cost of learning sheet music is a few weeks of study, it quickly becomes worth it due to gains in speed of learning and sightreading skills.
Maybe this can introduce people to piano and get them playing quickly, but it'll ultimately stunt their development.
For people saying “but there are amazing musicians who don’t read music,” yes, of course there are. Literacy isn’t required for poets, either. There are rich oral traditions that weren’t written down for hundreds or thousands of years. But you cannot convince me that reading and writing are unimportant for poets and audiobook readers. You can do both jobs without reading or writing, but they’re a heck of a lot easier if you do.
I think it also depends what instrument you play. It’s understandable that there are guitarists in this thread saying “eh, pianists don’t need sheet music, I do fine without it” but they are missing the fact that sheet music is way more useful for piano than it is for guitar. If someone truly does not want to learn to read music, they might consider taking up an instrument like guitar where you can get along without it.
If you already know and like sheet music, I don’t think this app will be for you
I know at least one other person who didn’t bother learning sheet music. Maybe it’s because I came from guitar, where tabs aren’t particularly sight readable, so I just learn and remember the entire piece
I learned piano when I was young, but I never practiced and basically repeated the same lesson over and over. We started taking our 5 year old for piano lessons and I was inspired and wanted to start practicing as well, but I found I couldn't read any sheet music.
I found a course on Udemy: Read Music FAST and Read Music FAST! Part 2. I highly recommend those. It basically took a week or two to get through them and I was able to jump into the author's free Intermediate lesson.
In the jazz world it is fairly common for pianists to be unable to read music. For example, Colin Vallon, one of the most successful jazz pianists of the new millennium, has admitted in a number of interviews that he never learned.
Yeah that's true but I know for a fact that many of my friends would like to simply learn a few simple songs without really getting into the details of learning music! So this might be helpful for all those people like them!
This is wrong. Played piano all my life, and never learned to read sheet music fast enough for it to be any use. This has not stunted my development. I play by ear and chords.
I play by ear and chords too, but being able to jot something down, or read something someone else has written down, is as useful to me in music as it is in English. Literacy is just plain practical.
Practical and useful, yes! Stunting development is something different. I do know how to read sheet music, but I’ve never practiced it to be fast enough to sight read. I’ve never felt that this has stunted my development - if it had, I probably would have picked up speed naturally.
GP might not want to play that kind of music. You can easily get away with no reading ability if you play in bands, pop groups, etc. (not that it's not useful to read)
Who is it for, you asked. Do you think there might be a few beginner pianists who see value in being able to play other music than 300-year-old fugues? If an interest in developing musical abilities in a different direction constitutes a “ceiling” and “stunted development” for you, you have a very narrow view of what it means to play an instrument.
That's not remotely true. if your objective is to play keys in a rock band, you really mostly just need chords and a little fill here and there.
I completely agree with your fundamental point, but it's a mistake to say someone needs to be able to be technically excellent in order not to feel like they've hit a ceiling in what they can do.
It’s not an objective ceiling when we disagree on which way is up! You have a super-weird and specific idea of what it means to play piano. I really can’t think of a less inspiring goal than playing “advanced” or “technically challenging” music. If you like to do that, go nuts, but don’t assume that anything else is meaningless.
How is that "super-weird" or "specific"? If anything, your idea of advanced pieces not being "up" is obscure.
> I really can’t think of a less inspiring goal than playing “advanced” or “technically challenging” music
Really? You can't understand how aiming to conquer a highly technical and musical piece is inspiring? It's the same as tackling any other difficult goal.
Music at a less technical level isn't meaningless, but it's an inherent limitation on your musicality if your repertoire is limited by technique.
Technique facilitates greater musicality. Sheet music facilitates greater technique.
Regardless, do as you please, but it's like saying, "I'll never learn code, because I can build no-code products!"
> You can't understand how aiming to conquer a highly technical and musical piece is inspiring?
You are putting words in my mouth - I am saying it’s not inspiring to me. I can understand that someone else might find it inspiring, sure! Like speedrunning a video game, some might find it an enjoyable challenge - but I think they can see that there are other reasons to play games. They wouldn’t say “who’s it for?” about a strategy guide because it’s not about speed.
For what it’s worth, I disagree with almost all of your descriptions of what musicality consists of. It’s not about repertoire or technique. If you see what types of music most people enjoy listening to and playing, you can see that you have a niche point of view. Technically challenging music is not more enjoyable to play or hear. Sheet music is irrelevant to most types of music, both historically and today - music is fundamentally heard and felt, not written and read, nor conquered.
I’ll leave this conversation now as it doesn’t appear to go anywhere meaningful.
Yes, and, it's a niche view even if you restrict things to America/western music. From a global perspective it's even more niche, limiting, and boxed in.
You’re probably not very good at playing the piano. I’m not sure what you mean by far enough, but not being able to sight read a piece is not the same as being unable to read sheet music at all.
I've noticed that across my many hobbies, there are always people who insist that THEIR way of learning how to do a thing is the ONLY way to learn how to do a thing. This seems more prevalent in the music world, though. Especially if they had strict teacher.
Yeah it's a moronic comment. I'm not even going to bother to compile a list of musicians that smoke everyone else without reading sheet music, but you can't throw a rock without hitting one.
In the professional music scene, you can go for an entire career without running into one. It is a relatively small set of outliers, and even then, there is a narrow set of genres (most of them Western and modern) where a professional player can get away with not reading or writing music.
Even in the poster child of learning by ear, Jazz, something like 99% of session and pro players learn to read music.
Not a doctor, but blood pressure is not just a proxy measure, it can be a dangerous condition in its own right that needs to be reduced. It puts stress on the circulatory system and raises the likelihood of strokes, for example.
I have a good diet, do lots of exercise (ride 16-20 ks every day, weights 2-3 times a week), don't smoke (never have), hardly drink (a beer every few weeks), thin (mid BMI), not skinny, not fat and have high blood pressure.
It's a bad vibe that I have to take pill every morning. If there was some way to avoid it I would. If I stop my high goes up to 180.
Do your hands and feet swell? If so, try drastically cutting your salt (20% of DVA) for a few days and test your pressure again.
Salt sensitivity is real.
Yes. It's actually not as simple as it sounds and involved preparing all my own meals. This said. A bottle of salt lasts a long long at home. Eating out is a quick way to get 100% of your DVA in one meal.
Disappointingly, it made no difference to my blood pressure over at least a month.
What it did do is reset my taste for salt. Any outside food tasted so salty at first it was yucky. That wore off after a while.
There is one thing that seems to make a difference and that is consciously drinking a lot of water. This lowers by BP but it has other affects I don't like.
I was diagnosed with hypertension at 10. I am probably an edge case but after extensive testing they have yet to find a root cause for my high blood pressure.
They've concluded that continuing to study me will cause more stress and that I am otherwise healthy - I just need to continue taking my blood pressure medications.
Sometimes it is just something that happens and needs treating by itself
As the article mentions, some people have a genetic mutation that makes them much more likely to have hypertension even if they're doing everything "correctly".
Sure, in some cases it's lifestyle related; the medications lower the risk of heart disease, stroke, dementia, etc. while someone deals with their obesity, diet or other issues.
It's the primary actual cause of heart and stroke related disease, to my understanding. Worse than high cholesterol, obesity, etc. So, yes, hypertension is something that should absolutely be primarily treated.
Dr. Rick Johnson, Prof. of Nephrology (kidney) at U. of Colorado, on a Peter Attia podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V02z9mqTWzg&t=6856s , states that high blood pressure is an inflammatory kidney disease.
What causes the inflammation? There are several causes, including vaso-constrictive drugs like cocaine, but one major cause is high uric acid due to high fructose (caused by high fructose dietary intake or high sodium intake, which over a long enough time, will cause the body to convert glucose to fructose, which then goes along the high fructose dietary intake path)
There's complete demonetization where videos have no ads altogether (e.g., videos from BBC if you're in UK).
There's partial stuff like Content ID matches. If you post my song, YT still shows ads, but you get no money. I now get your ad money (and YT its cut).
Not sure what they meant in case of Russell Brand, but I bet they will show ads for advertisers who don't opt out and pocket the profit.
I have noticed quite edgy videos that were ad-free before now heavily feature ads, so not sure about that. Many advertisers are not even based in the US, UK or any western country.
Not showing ads is the same as just burning money for Google.
I would not be surprised if there is some P(controversy | viewing user, time elapsed since original flagging) metric, and when it goes below a threshold, certain non-prestige or international ads can be shown - ads not likely to cause any problems.
I can confirm that Youtube runs ads on demonetized videos. This includes- videos where the creator didn't monetize it, videos that were monetized at first, but got monetization removed after review of reports, and videos where the creator don't yet qualify for monetization.
This is true, I have a youtube channel. When it wasn't monetised yet back then, my friends and family saw the ads at the beginning and the end of my videos. Thinking that I already made money from the first couple of videos that I made
