Alternative Methods for Reading Music

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There are other ways to learn a song than to know how to read music.  You can look up tabs, which have a number that corresponds to each fret and then are on a certain number of lines depending on your instrument, you can listen to the song and figure out the song by ear, and there is a growing of apps lately that promise to teach you better than any other.  A new app called “Meludia” is very different than others in the way that it teaches through emotion, creativity, and the usual practicing.  It puts musicians in a different spot that not many are used to which is good because musicians like to go out of their comfort zones here and there.  You may be asking “How can one learn music through emotion?” Well, in an interview with Paul from Meludia, he said “Vincent [the creator] found that music geniuses all had two things in common: accurate hearing of the primitive elements of music and a strong inner emotional vehicle. We have created a universal way to acquire those elements.”  Through creativity and emotions, anyone can learn the universal music talent.

Personally, I stick to either listening to the song and learning it by ear, or using tabs when I’m stumped and can’t figure it out.  This helps me get better at problem-solving.  There is a certain feeling you get when you learn a new song and put in your vast library of songs that you have memorized.  You feel joy and pride that you just learned something that another musician put his/her heart and soul into making through their musical talent.