College and Education Guide

Before I begin, let me introduce myself. My name is Mike Ellis. I live in Dallas, Texas, and was a musicologist in the true sense of the word forty-three years. I taught guitar, bass, banjo, keyboards and sitar, and nineteen years of experience in teaching full time and fifteen years of experience in teaching part time. I played in the ear of many groups for ten years before I started teaching. In 1972, I was fortunate to be under the wing of the late Mr. Gardner Terrill, who taught me music and how to teach. Terrill took me to play by ear at the completion of the three volumes of “Modern Guitar Method” Berklee College of Boston. He was reading the note to the fullest extent. Terrill said that if I was going to teach, had to be trained in all areas, not just play by ear. He also taught music theory and string theory in a way that allows me the author during the string theory two years later. Now let’s begin.

How important is reading the note?

While many parents expressed the need to read the note and the values ??of a “classic” to learn music. Why? I’m not going to respond later. First I want to ask some questions. Who were the most successful contemporary artists of the twentieth century (and perhaps of all time)? The answer, of course, are the Beatles. The second most successful and probably the longest are the artists the Rolling Stones. How many of them could read the notes at the height of his career? There were four Beatles and the Rolling Stones five and none of them could read a note. They give birth to the “British Invasion” artists most of whom could not read a note. How important, then, reading the note? It is certainly not necessary to write monster hit songs like “Yesterday”, “Something,” “Satisfaction” and a huge list of others. At one point, the Beatles played five Top Ten lists of all at once. And I could not read a note. Read more »