Thirteen Years of Drowning into Over-Sophistication

I think it's helpful for sure. Once you get comfortable you can probably bypass this stage (because you already know it will work)

I'm right there with you, music is weird like that in that you can bypass entire stages of development.
(There is no point in trying to solo over 'all the things you are' if you can't do it over a simple blues first)

I wish i would've gone through this over a decade ago but I didn't...
I also wish I picked piano as my main instrument, but I didn't..

I truly wonder if this has to do with the fact you don't play piano Paul.
If you don't get the things 'under your fingers' (as Mike would say), then I believe you; it's just a mountain of notes/chords to remember
(which is exactly why just reading a score never does anything useful for me, I can't remember any of it 5 seconds later).
Also, it's just always at least a step 'removed' from making the connection to the original

 

True, I do not play piano, and that might be the reason I do not get anything out of transcribing by ear. At the same time, almost everything I have truly internalized about music came by score study. So, whatever works for each person.

 

Yikes...not to be a downer, but a Mozart Sonata is definitely not the thing you want to start with for having simple material, with simple progressions, and easy to hear. It's designed to be immediately appealing, and feel simple, but there's a lot going on underneath the hood. The short answer on why it's going to give you trouble is that the Sonata-Allegro form (that'd be the first section of the example you put up) is built to GO places. Sophistication is built into the design - the progression has to move from one place to another, it has to go all sorts of places in the development section, and it has to go back to where it started by changing everything in the recapitulation. It'd be like someone wanted to study car engines and starting with an RX-7 Wankel.

No joke, I'd start with something like this:

If for no other reason than seeing how Beethoven can make dozens of ways for two chords, in the simplest forms possible, into interesting music. Not the MOST interesting music, but there's a lot there, despite what isn't there, if that makes sense.

 

I'm just jivin ya.

It is a good one.

I think the classical suggestions are due to his piece sounding classical.

Ich wünsche dir das Beste, mein Freund

Raphael

Écrire des mélodies à une seule ligne.
deux mesures suffisent.
Chante-les
Définir des mots à la musique
Pensez à la façon dont vous parleriez ces mots naturellement
Les mots et le rythme créeront les mélodies dans votre esprit
Un poème ou une histoire aura une arche naturelle.
La composition musicale a été enseignée avec la rhétorique
Rappelez-vous qu'il ne doit pas être long.

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