Thursday, September 16, 2004

Question of the Week

Last week, there was quite a lively discussion on the comments to Halfling's blog, regarding the use of solfege vs. numbers in aural skills classes. I thought it would be a good idea to have some sort of discussion question every week, so here goes one:

Does any musician who reads this blog prefer the Eastman counting system (one-te, two-te) over traditional counting (one-and, two-and)? If so, why? If you prefer traditional (as I do), please tell me why as well. Ready, set, go...

2 comments:

Kev said...

Holy crap, Murphy uses Eastman? He didn't do that when he was my lab band director. It just sounds so wrong with jazz rhythms.

The three reasons I like traditional:

1) Works better faster, as Dingus said.

2) The whole "te" thing just sounds ridiculous.

3) DWF uses Eastman...enough said.

James said...

I prefer the traditional method, for no other reason than it's the only one I know and have used :)

I spose I've never played in a big band thing, aside from just the church band with a couple of guitars and drums... so I haven't even had a real use for the counting system since I stopped the piano exams bak in 1998.