I hear of a trick where you dont read music, and they call it a music school trick where you just hit any note

Question

I heard of an old music school trick where you just hit any note and it sounds good, does anyone have any idea on this?

Answer 1

Never heard of it

Answer 2

I am a music teacher, and a trick that I use with my young kids while playing instruments is to only give the the notes of a pentatonic scale to play. So any note you play using one of these scales can be made into a melody, and it will always sound good. For instance, in the key of C pentatonic, you can play C-D-E-G-A.... F pentatonic you can play F-G-A-C-D...

Answer 3

This is a quote from Pickles (Metalacoplis) sp?) from adult swim when raggin' on Toki about not being able to read music.

Answer 4

ummm..yes it is called "playing by ear"....when you simply play musical chords that mix well together etc...so when you say "any note"...they actually are real notes that make sense when you begin to mix them together and make some sort of harmony..kind of like..making up vocal ryhme with words and putting them together....

kinda hard to explain...

Answer 5

I play a flute, and cant read music, I just play it by ear