Re: Piano lessons advice (O.T.) - visualization in general as a tool

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Christopher Darrow <thedarrow@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> <<I find it easier to start with vertical light balls, like an 
>elongated and expanded traffic light, then morph that visually in my mind 
>to fit a given instrument.>>
>> sez chris

Funny trick! Nice allegory with those bouncing traffic lights ;-) Not
my bag though since I tend to think about whatever note I hear as its
position in the scale (or "melody", or "chord", depending on the
context). That's dirt simple because you immediately hear if a note is
the root note, the big third, the "minus second" or whatever. When
experiencing music this way it is just a trivial translation act to
make it playable on any given physical instrument.

Per