NOTATIO

To continue the comparison with learning to read or write: "If I can get a student to recite a poem they love before learning to read, it just might entice them to give reading a try." I'm no expert in pedagogy, but that sounds absurd. Fred, it seems to me that you don't have any children...

Tab for guitar is really for beginning students. This is true and I never suggested that NUME was intended to replace CWN. If you look at the videos on https://mikeellismusicinstruction.com/Nume/index.html you will see one of my students at age eight and nine playing the piano parts to two songs by...

The "T" designates Treble sounds, not a certain clef, moreover for the right hand notes, usually. The "B" likewise designates Bass sounds and those are usually played with the left hand. No student needs to memorize 12 different staff definitions. Each time a bottom line is desig...

To Fred's last post showing the triplet markers above the staff: https://mikeellismusicinstruction.com/FredResponse3Image.png Again, the message at the top of the image designates the bottom line as the note D. And it is no problem seeing the groups of three notes/rests. Also, the feel of foot tappi...

To Fred's last post showing the triplet markers above the staff:

Again, the note at the top of the image designates the bottom line as the D note.

Oops, I said "transcribed" instead of "notated." Also, I put a rest markers where I should have put hold markers everywhere except the first half beat.
Slip of the wrist.

With NUME, the bottom line can be designated as any of the twelve notes for clarity and ease of notating. Also notice that there are six beats per measure which equates to twelve half-beats (eighth notes). As said before, NUME considers a beat as laymen consider foot taps. So here is how I would hav...

NUME is a new transcription method. Go to https://mikeellismusicinstruction.com/Nume/index.html to see video examples of students who have used it to learn songs, a complete tutorial, transcription examples, the reason NUME was created in the article "Transcribing Music in Western Culture and t...