Michelle:<br><br>As a teacher of VI students, I encourage my students to learn how to read music. Learning how to read music encourages independence and being self-sufficient. Learning by ear requires you to depend on someone or something else. The idea of reading and playing will always be a challenge. Many professionals memorize their music for performances, so your learning to reading braille music will require you to memorize your music and require you to perform like many professionals. Each person memorizes in different ways, but reading music for everyone requires you to reading music as patterns and not individual notes. Patterns of 8 beats would be your first step. I encourage you to advance to patterns of 16 patterns as your goal. I hope this helps.<br>
<br>Rick Coates<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Michele Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwhill16@comcast.net">mwhill16@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello<br>
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IVe been subscribing to Menvi for a while but have never written bifore.<br>
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I took about two years of v oice lessons and one year of piano lessons. I also play the gutar. Hoever, I cannot read music. It seems like there are many proficient musicains in the Menvi network. How does one play/sing without being able to read the music? Any input is greatly aprec iated.<br>
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iMichele Hill<br>
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music braille is just like literary braille except using the letters know in a different way.<br>
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On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Tina Davidson wrote:<br>
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Hi Crystal,<br>
If you are asking simply if embossing (not creating) braille music files is<br>
any different than embossing literary braille files, the answer is no. There<br>
is no special embosser set-up -- just print the file like any other file.<br>
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Tina<br>
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I use the Duxbury software to create and emboss "brf" files, including<br>
braille music.<br>
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Karen Gearreald<br>
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Hi,<br>
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Dancing Dots has created the GOODFEEL(R) Braille Music Translator. We offer<br></div></div>
a 15-day, no-cost trial version of GOODFEEL. Please contact me off- list at<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
my info@DancingDots.com address for details. See <a href="http://www.DancingDots.com" target="_blank">www.DancingDots.com</a> and<br>
follow the "GOODFEEL" link for further details.<br>
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Hello,<br>
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My name is Crystal, new to the list. I have an Index Braille Embosser, but I<br>
do not know how to set it up to print Braille music. Do we need any kind of<br>
special software in order to emboss Braille notes?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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Crystal in Stockholm<br>
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Kelsey, I'll be glad to help you again. Please write to me off list.<br>
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Hello,<br>
I just received braille music transcriptions of two pieces which I am<br>
using for choir in brf format. Is there anyone on the list who could<br>
emboss them for me and mail them to me?<br>
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