![]() ![]() I took music lessons as a kid and could never make sense out of the time signature thing and didn’t do well on the notes themselves either. I’m with jeff_lindqvist and the TheBlindBard on the ABC thing. Re: Reading the ABC notation on ‘The Session’ But for anyone else I’d say, make the tiny effort needed, because you’ll find the payback is enormous. I’d say it’s an option for someone who, for some reason, really can’t learn to read music. You can’t really read ABC and hum the tune to yourself, basically it’s terrible. Reading ABC must be slow and you can’t see things like the overall shape of the music. Obviously you may start off slowly but people would speed up very quickly. ![]() I can’t imagine what’s stopping anyone from doing it. If people already know the names of the notes and where they are on their instruments then it’s a very short step to simply reading normal music notation. In ABC the little information you do get is ‘spread out’, You have to read the size of the letter and various other ‘signs’ just to get one note correct. You get the note and it’s length and the rhythm all together. You have to know where the notes are on your instrument to read the ABC stuff right? just as you do on a normal staff ,but you get a lot more information with music notation. I don’t get this thing about reading an E is easier than reading the note E. It’s like composing your email by going through morse code. No one would write normal music notation by going through the ABC thing, there’s no point. The way to write standard notation is to have a program that you write directly to, either on site or on your computer at home, which you can just upload. I chose ‘waltz’ which is silly but never mind, I thought until I noticed that a 3/4 time had been automatically chosen.Īnyway, for anyone interested there’s a very interesting video on youtube about the invention of music notation by Howard Goodall, well worth watching. I was thinking of putting up a tune which I have, it’s referred to as an air. ![]() I’ll have a go again, when I have time, but there are other problems I noticed with it. I’d like do my bit and contribute tunes to the site but, honestly, I don’t know if I can, using that system. ![]() It looks horribly long-winded to learn and laborious to type out. I’ve just looked at this ABC stuff again. I had music lessons at school and learnt to read music there. Maybe, as you say, they don’t realise it’s not only quite easy to learn but in the end, of course, it’s much better. People who have been playing for so many years as many people claim on here, and love music as much as they do, really ought to have taken the time to learn to read music. Re: Reading the ABC notation on ‘The in Italy At the moment at least, I’m with you. Hope something here is helpful to you - and good on you for learning by ear - the old way □ Some of us are so dependent on notes ( moi ) that it is hard to pick up by ear… # You can also change the tempo easily with a slider at the top, or transpose to another key. If TheSession does not have a midi available, and you cannot find the tune on YouTube, another way to hear the abc is to download an abc software such as EasyABC ( ) - this one is very easy - even I can use it!! Paste the abc notation from into the bottom half and click the player above. If that is available, you can hear the basics of the tune, keeping in mind that this is a very mechanical reproduction of the dots.Īnother option is to review the comments for the tune to see if anyone has posted a YouTube link - or you could search YouTube for the tune name and hope to find a good performance of it. usually also provides a Midi recording of each tune. ![]()
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