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On hearing music and playing it: why it is a language, what it means to imagine a pitch, why the major modes carry so much of it — the ideas NoSheet is built on, in the open.
What Is NoSheet?Train the connection between hearing and playingMusic is like LanguageListening & playing music is like speakingPerception–Action LoopListen, identify, play — ears, mind, and fingers all activeAudiationThe ability to intentionally imagine pitchesAbsolute & Relative PitchRelative pitch is hearing notes by their relationship to the rootWhy Major Modes?The major modes are singularly central to musicHarmonic SeriesThe physical reason certain intervals sound consonantEqual TemperamentThe tuning system underlying Western musicSolfègeSyllables that name each scale degree for singingNon-linear practiceRepeat within constraints, never the same sequence twiceImprovisationSpontaneous problem-solving, and the flow between too easy and too hardSong WritingPlanning out a piece of music before presenting it