I have no idea where to start, but I will try my best to describe this thing.
When I was really young, I was taught some music theory along with learning to play piano and some ancient accordeon that was unearthed by my grandma from depths of attic. So I was taught solfa but not musical alphabet for some reason. So now I can read sheet music and if given some time to practice - could play it on piano, maybe even accordeon. But I can't comprehend uhh.. music written in letters.
Now I'm 22, I've been trying to learn guitar since my teens and I still very much want to, but it's all just confusion and panic because I do understand familiar sounds but I don't understand much else. And taking lessons both irl and online just makes me more lost because WHY FAMILIAR SOUNDS BUT IN LETTERS WHERE ALL FUNKY LITTLE MARKS? I know this shouldn't be this hard, but I also don't understand how to solve this issue. And I struggle to memorize new set of sound names but now in form of letters.
(Also re-learning to play drums, but it is just so much easier because with drums everything seems to be different enough to not be as confusing as solfa vs. letters)
please help, I am not stupid, just very confused.
Submitted September 21, 2023 at 06:00AM by silenthumanbeing34 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/16oavzv/odd_struggle_with_reading_music/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, September 21, 2023