Once understood to a reasonable degree, many ‘brick walls’ will disappear with regards to reading and realising music. Coupled with good technical playing, half the battle is already won.
The ABRSM have now transferred written theory exams Grades 1 - 5 to an online system which unfortunately doe not require any hand written notation in the exam - something which most Professors and Teachers will have gone to painstaking lengths to have Terms and Signs correctly written and presented on the stave.
It is my fear if Teachers do not keep handwriting of music alive, the art will be lost.
I will continue to use the original methods, but then making the easy adjustment to cater for the online examinations which is mainly drag and drop and multiple choice.
Handwriting music on the staves is as important as handwriting is to typing.
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