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You make a good point. There's lots of accomplished musicians who never learn to read. And some "full-stack" musicians like yourself who start with tabs or simi
by cturner 10y ago
You make a good point. There's lots of accomplished musicians who never learn to read. And some "full-stack" musicians like yourself who start with tabs or similar, and who come to writing earlier than reading. I think several of the Beatles never bothered to learn western notation.
My analogy has some problems. Still, I think it's interesting to consider the real possibility of a future where code-reading is a mainstream skill, and where writing is considered a specialisation. And where code writing is done with the expectation of serving the reader.
I've started to mess with figured bass recently. I have an old ukulele and am seeing if I can fit some lute songs to it, and get used to taking my finger patterns from those marks. Kind of a step up from tabs.
- scarecrowbob 10y ago" think it's interesting to consider the real possibility of a future where code-reading is a mainstream skill, and where writing is considered a specialisation. And where code writing is done with the expectation of serving the reader." Yeah, I can understand that as a good point. Still, as a person who was teaching Lit at a university for 8 years of my life, the idea that writing is the mantle of a special class and that reading is enough for the masses seems Writing (code / music / language) is easy enough that I'm not understanding why you wouldn't teach it to folks even if they can't do it at the same level as the texts they are capable of reading. Anyhow, best of luck with your ukulele experiments :D