@two fingers,
I read your post, I see nothing wrong, with teaching, popular music in a formal setting, In Carlsbad NM, a Mr. 'Lloyd, was a high school band director, he incorporated popular music into his program, he used his stronger students to write the different parts, Maybe you haven't heard "Stairway to Heaven" from a marching band, the school band presented in competition in the spring of 98, He allowed his pep band to play Jimmy Hendrix, version of the Star Spangled Banner in very cojnversative area of the state. Lloyd groomed his students to go to college, asking his first and second chair students to switch to other instruments, that were in demand.
For the most part, I sense some snobbery in many threads, yes music has it's secret language, and the rigors of academia assures the snobbery will continue, You highly trained people know a single word describes a technique or a concept, that would otherwise take a half a page of explanation. Take no offense, as there are other threads outside music that have secret languages.
It is probably sacreligious for me to suggest, using the teaching of something like Nashville Notation to teach theory.
All one has to do, is watch "The big bang theory," to see secret languages I doubt, more than half a percent of the viewers know what is written on the white boards.
By the way, I know someone is a world renounded bassist, the subject is important, the somebody saying it is several times in magnitude is less important.
I read your post, I see nothing wrong, with teaching, popular music in a formal setting, In Carlsbad NM, a Mr. 'Lloyd, was a high school band director, he incorporated popular music into his program, he used his stronger students to write the different parts, Maybe you haven't heard "Stairway to Heaven" from a marching band, the school band presented in competition in the spring of 98, He allowed his pep band to play Jimmy Hendrix, version of the Star Spangled Banner in very cojnversative area of the state. Lloyd groomed his students to go to college, asking his first and second chair students to switch to other instruments, that were in demand.
For the most part, I sense some snobbery in many threads, yes music has it's secret language, and the rigors of academia assures the snobbery will continue, You highly trained people know a single word describes a technique or a concept, that would otherwise take a half a page of explanation. Take no offense, as there are other threads outside music that have secret languages.
It is probably sacreligious for me to suggest, using the teaching of something like Nashville Notation to teach theory.
All one has to do, is watch "The big bang theory," to see secret languages I doubt, more than half a percent of the viewers know what is written on the white boards.
By the way, I know someone is a world renounded bassist, the subject is important, the somebody saying it is several times in magnitude is less important.
