Musical Illiteracy
 

Are you musically illiterate?

No, I don't think so.....

No.But i am illiterate nonetheless.

What does that mean, "musically illiterate?"

Don't rape. It's a crime.

i'm ILL-literate.

from dictionary.com: Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge: musically illiterate.

nice

But seriously.

well i can't read musical notation. and don't know many of those musical terms like stacato (although that one is one of the few i know)

staccato!

Da Capo al Fine!!!


It helps if you speak Italian.

heh heh. you said from the head is fine....head.

seriously, though. i'm a "classical" saxophonist, so i can read notation quite well. i can read a little for piano and a bit for oboe. i can read very simple bass lines, but mostly play by ear, so that doesn't really matter.

I know who Munehiro Narita is.

that sounds like one uh them fancy shmancy newfangled jap-o-neez names. is you with us or ain't with us? cuz these colors don't run!

I totally repped you for that.

he's musically illiterate apparently. or at least he's not a trained musician, which when i found out, suprised me, but in retrospect is less suprising

He told me he started out playing very straight blues and jazz.

it kinda bothers me when people have the notion that if you can't read music, then you can't contribute anything worthwhile to music.