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🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 117 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ellis James and John Robbins. Radio X. |
0:04.0 | To do with the way guitar is taught. |
0:07.0 | Totally. But I think it's also, it's just a different skill, because it's like looking at it. |
0:10.0 | It's like a different, it's like a different, it's like looking at Cyrillic or Hindi or something. |
0:14.0 | But I've also never met a pianist who can't read music, but of... |
0:18.0 | Because, like you said, because of how you have to look... But of the hundred guitarists, I know, probably two can read music. |
0:24.5 | But even with piano, if you started to learn because you were playing along with pop |
0:28.6 | songs and you were just learning chords, you might know chord patterns. |
0:32.0 | But frustratingly, piano's never taught that way. And if it was, I think more people |
0:36.2 | were to play. Because when I learned guitar, |
0:38.1 | I could play a Bob Dylan song within an hour. But piano, I had piano lessons for three years |
0:44.2 | and could not play anything I liked. It's like school exams in the same way in that you, |
0:48.5 | a lot of teachers, you teach the exam. So you don't actually teach them the instrument. |
0:52.5 | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. |
0:55.6 | Like, um, blown in the wind is AED and E. |
0:58.8 | Yeah. |
0:59.4 | So within, within an hour, anyone can play that. |
1:03.0 | And it's, you sound like Bob Dylan. |
1:05.2 | And you're like, an hour ago, I couldn't do this. |
1:07.3 | And now I sound like one of the coolest musicians ever. |
1:11.6 | Uh, yeah. Right then. couldn't do this and now I sound like one of the coolest musicians ever. Yeah. |
1:12.6 | Right then. |
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