| Hey you can see it how you want. To me the closest equivalent would be song=story, section=chapter, phrase=sentence, rhythm=cadence, chord/harmonic structure=word, and note=letter. Grammer would be like for jazz you would use it's typical idiomatic concepts; shifting key centers, repeated chorus, modal solo structure. For classical you would use those ones, Sonata form, mostly triadic structure, etc. Just like if you wanted to write like Shakespeare you would use the appropriate grammer for that, vs Langston Hughes. But you can see it however you want.
All I'm saying is I wouldn't expect to learn conversational Japanese from a book, without trying to actually converse in Japanese. . .But whatever works, I did plenty of the book route and wish I would have dropped out of music school sooner and spent more time learning by ear (which is what I practice now), but YMMV. . . |