Blog 6
3:25PM BST 15 May 2011
Summary
A 19 years old boy taught himself to play classical music without any lessons or even without reading musical notation. Samuel has been playing music since he was a child. He started of with the guitar, but he had never learned to read notes. Samuel himself was intending to go and study law; but his teachers urged him to go and study music so he can explore his talents. His piano teacher believes Samuel has a mild form of autism. Samuel agreed on clinical research to find out if his teacher believes are right. His own opinion about his talent is that he is just very good in memorising.
Opinion
Now and then one comes across a talented person. This boy has been playing music since a very young age and has learned to use his ears playing not his eyes. The technique of piano playing he might have copied from his mother at a younger age. I wonder about the musical interpretation of the pieces he plays. The article does not refer to his interpretation of the music. Since he is copying someone else’s opinion on the piece. I wonder if he would give the piece a different interpretation if he could sign read the piece before playing instead of listening to someone’s interpretation.
I believe it is called tonal memory and I would love to have this ability. This young man seems to have it but if he really wants to study music, he must learn to read notes as well. I agree that a good interpretation of a musical piece makes the difference between a good and a brilliant performance.
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