[Menvi-discuss] How To Determine Whole And Sixteenth Notes/Rests In Braille Music

[Chela Robles]

I still have a hard time determining whole and sixteenth in music, no, 
not by ear, but by reading the braille music, any other tips other than 
what I read as follows from Bettye Krolick's book, How To Read Braille 
Music An Introduction Second Edition: ""Count the beats in  the measure, 
and it will be easy to decide whether a note has a large or a small value."
Call me Braille Music dyslexic, but I still do not get it! Please 
explain how you determine the two seeing as is dots 3 and 6 in the lower 
cell define both ultimately whether it be a rest or a note? Any other 
tricks to determine Sixteenth and whole all, that would be greatly 
appreciated. I told my friend off list that it is hard for me to 
decipher and would like to do so eventually, but as soon as I see it, I 
revert back to playing by ear, don't gasp now, but that is how I learned 
how to play music originally, in fact, I didn't learn braille music 
until 2004 and part of 2005, at the Orientation Center for the Blind in 
Albany California, and only one braille instructor a fine pianist, 
taught me the basic, but then gave up on me when I had a hard time 
determining the two types Whole and Sixteenth...so I'm taking it upon 
myself to learn it on my own spare time and I do remember all the other 
note/rest types so that is good to know from the only music book I do 
have the Bettye Krolick one, may she rest in peace and always be remembered!

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