[Menvi-discuss] Suggestions for expediting assignments.

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I have this same problem kind of.
What my teacher does is place a piece of music under the overhead and he 
talks about the intervals, chord formations and plays some pieces. Then he 
has us sight sing them.
He does around 3 or 4 major pieces a day, so it is almost out of the 
question to get them transcribed. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also, I find myself being very slow at composing in class... It is probably 
because I'm horrible at the qwerty keyboard piano, but any ideas on creating 
compositions in class would be awesome. I'm thinking that I should just 
write the music out in Braille and wait till I'm at home to create the Lim 
file... (Is there a way to put Braille files into lime)?
Most of the compositions we are to compose are 6 or 7 key chords which 
doesn't work on the qwerty piano. Any suggestions on how to do this in 
class? I suppose making extra voices would work, but that is a really big 
pain to have to switch through octaves and not make duplicates of the same 
pitches... Also if there is a B inversion chord I'm up a crick. Is it 
possible to do a B chord, or first inversion chord on the qwerty Keyboard?
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Kaiti Shelton
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:48 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Suggestions for expediting assignments.

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone had some suggestions about how to
complete theory assignments more efficiently than the way I am
completing them now.

If I use lime directly when my teacher assigns an analysis in class I
often find that when the class starts to go over it I'm only halfway
done at best.  This is of course because I have the added step of
copying whatever passage we're working on into lime before I analyze
the piece.  To save some time I've started to use my BrailleNote and
braille music in combination with my own musical shorthand in kwb
files.  This works out fairly well for participating in the class, but
it leaves the extra leg work of copying everything into lime.  This
method also makes me nervous because then I run the risk of copying
something wrong or missing something I wrote down.

If anyone has any suggestions or a better way to do this I'd love to
hear them.  My teacher has been pretty understanding and allows me to
turn in assignments before the start of the next class if I need time
to finish them, but I'd like to be able to keep up a little more with
my classmates if at all possible.  Also I'll be starting college
theory next year, so it would be really awesome if I could get this
down before I go away to school.

Thanks,
-- 
Kaiti

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