Re: ::sigh:: A little help with this measure?

Steve Latham wrote:

This is also typically the way you learn things. Learning to "play music" is a little different in that it focuses in the first two above, but, obviously there's the technical aspect of playing the instrument, learning to read music etc. so that would be like #0 for instrumental instruction.

Yeah, the ironic thing is I started out, like I said, just wanting to read sheet music, because I figured that would be a good start for learning the piano. But I've gotten so far into theory now that learning to play the piano doesn't even seem like a goal anymore, though I'd still like it to be! :)
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