[Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval signs and tricks for right hand reading?

[Tina Davidson]

Hi Dave,
I'm a sighted music transcriber and I understand what you mean about not
being able to quickly read intervals down instead of up. I'm a guitarist, so
I always think from the bottom up in terms of harmony.
But, the biggest problem I see with using subnotes with lowered note names
is that you have now eliminated the wonderful tool in braille music of being
able to double the intervals for a series of chords. For instance, I am
working on a piano piece that is full of 32nd note octave chords and various
other chords with the same intervals repeated. I know that each chord is
memorized as you are learning the piece, but imagine how quickly you could
read and learn a passage of thirds or sixths or octaves by only having to
read the top note.
I think it's a matter of just learning those darn intervals in the right
hand until they fit under your fingers. Hymns are good for interval practice
or perhaps just pounding away in thirds, then fourths, fifths, and sharp
sixths. Good luck!

Tina
www.ctdcreations.com
 
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[mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Dave Bahr
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 PM
To: menvi-discuss at menvi. org
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] subnote system instead of interval signs and tricks
for right hand reading?

hi list,

I was just wondering if anyone used the system of subnotes instead of 
interval signs. This is where the note that is to be played is written 
in a dropped cell next to the first note which is written normally. So a 
c chord would be the c written in normal braille music, then a dropped 
e, or the en sign, and then a dropped g, or the were, sign.

I ask because I am having a lot of trouble reading intervals top down in 
the right hand of piano music. I've never been good at inverting things, 
in life and in music. So I'm wondering if that subnote system would work 
better, or, perhaps there's some trick to reading intervals top down 
that I'm not aware of? I have trouble figuring out what a flatted sixth 
would be written top down, for example. I can't really say why, I guess 
it's just never computed in my brain properly, maybe because I'm 
relatively new and slow at braille music? In my music theory book the 
right hand intervals were written upward, which would be a good solution 
except that that's not the standard practice.
-- 
Well, any thoughts on this are welcome, I'm very interested to see what 
sort of discussion this will generate.
Thanks for reading,
Dave C. Bahr

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