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

[Chris Smart]

well, counting the number of notes per beat and per measure is 
probably helpful. 16 16th notes or one whole note with space around 
it. That's a huge difference metrically, as well as spacially.

Unless it's an extremely short pick up bar, you're not going to see 
a bar containing a single sixteenth note on its own.

Even a couple sixteenths, four eighths, and a quarter note 
shouldn't be hard to figure out, since there are just lots of notes 
in one bar, so some of them are obviously very short.

At 03:39 PM 9/5/2012, you wrote:
>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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