Reading is FUNdamental

As I told the band member that gave me my first two lessons, it's been over 20 years since I've read any sheet music. That didn't stop him from passing me a copy of "Scots Wa Hae Wi' Wallace Bled" and said, "you can read this right?" Honestly, I couldn't even pronounce the song title nevermind read the music...but I aim to learn in short order. I read online that a great way to learn to read sheet music is to learn to write sheet music. So I took the song he gave me and transcribed it onto another sheet, studying the notes as I went from bar to bar. Here is my copy in all its glory...



Now I just have to learn how to play this song. I'm doing my best to learn the song by reading the music as opposed to simply memorizing which notes to play. Sort of like the 'give a man a fish, teach a man to fish' proverb. Give someone a sequence of notes and they can play a song, teach someone how to read music and they can play any song. You like that? I just made it up.

Anyways, the next video to upload is my massacre of the first couple-few bars in super slow and non-rythmic 6-8 time. Which reminds me, anyone have an old metronome that needs a new student?