What musical instrument/s do you play?

Novian Cahyadi wrote:

First and foremost, I can't read sheet music. Problem: most of the songs I ever want to play are written in Western notation system.

The way I've been doing it, is painstakingly transcribing the songs into letter notes by ear. This is getting tedious. And for that reason, I'm learning to read proper music notes. I can translate simple sheet music in my head s-l-o-w-l-y. My brain is still wired to the letter notation system. But one step at a time, yeah?

Footnote:
The most common music notation system in Indonesia is the chipher notation, where you assign Arabic numerals to represent the notes. I could never make sense of it. Perhaps that's why I didn't bother to learn a musical instrument, until recently. Letter notes are just much more sensible to me.

Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:
Can you convert them?

Anyway, don't bother with notes, just play for your own satisfaction, follow your intuition.

Novian Cahyadi wrote:



From musical notes to letters? That's what I've been doing in my head as a learning process. And reading directly from the sheet music would make things less tedious, no?



Sure, the ornamentation is up to my taste. But without a written score, I wouldn't know what notes to play since the first place. And I don't trust my memory to recite the tunes.