A learner should never become uncertain, because after anything has been mixed up, it will be unstable knowledge forever. “Considering that dyslexic learners frequently mix up stimuli, teaching has to be structured, cumulative, and thorough. Tablature and Fingering for Guitar Chords Here are few links for learning violin or guitar with fingering/numbering: One, One, One, …three, three, three, ….” Then they would play singing the notes as well as using the fingering placements. Here is how my husband helped our kids learn violin: fist they sang the songs with the violin notes as the words, phrasing and using pitch to go along with the notes: “threee….twooo….one. He thinks YouTube videos are excellent for beginners learning an instrument. He will use the sheet music as a bridge to learning a particular song, practicing until he can hold the song in his long-term memory and no longer uses the sheet music. My husband did learn to read sheet music eventually, though it takes him a very long time to decode and it is not how he plays music. My husband had a private guitar tutor at age 13 and learned by watching his tutor play and listening (similar to the Suzuki method) and was allowed to improvise and enjoy experimenting, before being forced to learn to read music. We spoke with our son’s music teacher inquiring as to why fingering wasn’t being used anymore, and the instructor replied that “they were trying to teach everyone to read music,” and that fingering “was *cheating* and wouldn’t lead to their goal of everyone learning to read music.” Despite the fact that violin and recorder were compulsory for all students at the school, the only students who graduated able to read sheet music were those students who had private music classes outside of school, so it was an unrealistic goal and an unnecessarily harsh policy and attitude for dyslexic learners. When instruction shifted a few years later to reading sheet music, he hit a wall and lost interest in playing violin. When our son first started taking violin lessons using the Suzuki method, he made great progress and excelled at violin, learning by watching his instructor’s fingering. “Fingering,” instead of reading sheet music, helped my children’s music practice immensely. Learning to play music by “Numbering” or a.k.a. What type of music instruction did work for my husband and children? Just as difficulty with reading and writing does not prevent one with dyslexia from becoming a successful author, as many successful authors have dyslexia. Many famous and talented musicians have dyslexia and/or ADHD. “Slow Processing Speed” and “Weak Working Memory” combined with normal to high IQ are classic neuropsychological assessment signs of dyslexia.ĭoes this mean that dyslexia will prevent someone from learning to play a musical instrument? Definitely not, if the right accommodations and teaching style are available to the student. This decoding process is difficult if your strengths do not include processing abstract symbols quickly and holding them in your memory while decoding and translating to finger locations. Reading sheet music involves another layer of decoding abstract symbols, and then converting those symbols mentally into a physical location for one’s fingers and associating those symbols with particular sounds (pretty similar to decoding written language for reading and writing). and yet not full of sheet music.įor my husband, and my children, reading sheet music is difficult due to their variety of dyslexia (dyslexia comes in many variations, so not all with dyslexia will have difficulty reading sheet music). In fact, our “dining room” looks more like a music room, full of instruments and spontaneous playing…. My husband has dyslexia, dyscalculia, and is a naturally talented musician. I created accommodations based on my husband’s advice since he was helping our kids learn to play recorder and violin for their music classes at school. Four years ago, when I was just starting out as a parent on my dyslexia advocate journey and researching accommodations for my son’s first 504 Plan, my internet searches did not turn up any sample accommodations for music instruction.
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