Re: utility (or lack of) of ABC for learning tunes?
Originally Posted by
whistler
I advocate learning by ear whenever possible - i.e. if someone can teach the tune to you, if you can get a recording of it or if you hear it played regularly. If these options are not open to you, I would err more on the side of learning from notation than trying to learn by ear from a midi playback device - a midi player has no sense of phrasing and (depending on the software and the speed of your computer) often has timing glitches, neither of which make it easy to pick up a tune correctly.
It is my notion too that you learn by ear. However abcmuse had a really nice way of phrasing that was much better than the others. I note that the big expensive program Finale has a 'human playback' function. I wonder how that sounds. I have not tried it yet.
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