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

[Bettie Downing]

No.  A dropped F is a trill sign and a dropped G is a repeat sign.


On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

> Hello,
> wouldn't a dropped F be a repeat sign? and wouldn't a dropped g be a staccato mark?
> I've never heard of dropping the notes and I don't think it would work... It's true that I see notes better than intervals, but honestly if you keep in mind that your hand is a 5th it is pretty easy to find the intervals... It is just annoying when you need to go down to the bass line to get your bass note...
> Thanks,
> 
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message----- From: Dave Bahr
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:23 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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