No wonder singers are the lowest on the musician pecking order
Are you sure ?
What do you call a guy who like's to hang out with musicians ?
A drummer
This is a little off topic. In an ocean liner book I'm reading the author mentions how a passenger on the Zeeland wrote down the music for the bugle notes that were played to alert first-class passengers to begin dressing for dinner. (In Cameron's film the Molly Brown character comments "Why do they always announce dinner like it's a damn calvary charge?" Other Titanic movies have some version of the same line.)
Anyway, more to the point: Apparently this was able to write down the score simply on hearing the notes. I could never in a million years do this, myself, but with so many musicians on here I'm sure one of you could. And it reminded me of the Beatles and the topic of formal music education.
I "think" I could do that
After watching Get Back and Paul trying to get his ideas across to the other guys, maybe it would've been useful to be able to just give them a piece of manuscript with some dots on it. Saved a lot of time !!
Miles Davis did this on the classic track from the greatest Jazz LP.
The 4 guys came to the studio to record Miles new album, he gave them sheets of dots, they played it with the tape rolling and that went on the album, track is called "So What" it's iconic and will probably be forever. Jazz lovers have voted it the greatest Jazz track of all time.
https://youtu.be/ylXk1LBvIqU