[Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions

Tue Aug 23 20:02:34 EDT 2016

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> On Aug 23, 2016, at 15:43, Eden <eden420 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Thank you, Stephanie! This was exactly my point. I can hear a piece of music all day long but if it's not on the instrument I'm playing, I could have a very hard time. Perhaps this will help me as well in my search for sheet music. I was not using qufftations or plus signs so that's why I was getting varied results. You've been a big help.
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>> On August 23, 2016 2:32:11 PM PDT, Stephanie Pieck <themusicsuite at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Try Googling the title, but doing a search using quotation marks, like this. Say I want to find the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, but only the first movement. I’d put “Moonlight Sonata” in quotes, then leave a space, type a plus sign immediately followed by the phrase “first movement” in quotation marks, then leave another space, put another plus sign and follow that with “piano”. This way, I get the first movement, played on piano (not some other instrument). If you don’t find what you’re looking the first time around, try the search again changing words or phrases. I’ve found tons of stuff that I wanted to hear this way, as well as some surprises that it turned out were well worth listening to as well. (Once I actually heard Debussy playing his own music—it was recorded on a piano roll for a player piano, but still …)
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>> Good luck and have fun!
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>> 
>> Stephanie Pieck
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>> From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Eden
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:52 AM
>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy; Chris Smart
>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] introduction and a fwhw questions
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>> Yes I agree that some classical music can certainly be worth playing. If one gets musical scores, how can you find a recording of said piece. Because even ifI can read music soon, I will want to hear what I'm playing. Thanks. It is true that most of the piano players I like started with classical. I guess I just enjoy so-ing withmy music. It helps me to keep rhythm. 
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>> On August 23, 2016 7:40:51 AM PDT, Chris Smart <csmart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>> Eden, I humbly submit that you will still learn a 
>> lot playing
>> some classical, and learning from a 
>> more serious piano or voice teacher who does rely 
>> on written music. Then, you can take all those 
>> skills - correct technique, ear training, basic 
>> theory, reading, etc. - and apply it to whatever 
>> pop or other styles of music you want to learn for the rest of your life.
>> 
>> 
>> At 02:54 AM 8/23/2016, you wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> My name is Eden, and I am a returning student to 
>> the piano and hope also to become a halfway 
>> decent singer. I am just learning to read 
>> braille music using the Hadley course. I am 
>> however having a hard time finding a piano 
>> teacher. All the ones I find do not want to 
>> bother with sheet music, they seem more 
>> interested in having me play by
>> ear. I, however, 
>> do not have that skill maybe one day but not 
>> now. I am seeking possibly vocal as well who 
>> wants to teach the full music experience both 
>> learning to recognize by ear but also who 
>> understands the need for sheet music. I am 
>> wondering if there is possibly anyone you guys 
>> know of in Portland, Oregon or who possibly 
>> would do Skype or other types of lessons via 
>> phone computer or otherwise. I also am going to 
>> try out the Dancing Dots software to use with my 
>> braille display. How have you guys found 
>> scanning to be of things like printed Pdfs. I 
>> can not for the life of me find such things as 
>> Tori Amos sheet music in a format I can use but 
>> maybe I'm not looking right. I asked the site 
>> selling the music if they could convert to 
>> musicxml and they said that was against the law. 
>> I wouldn't think so for this use case. I know 
>> there is lots of sheet music at Nls, but I'm
>> not 
>> a big classical person and "popular" music 
>> doesn't eWhy describe what I'm into I found a 
>> few things but not many. If I am
>> learning to 
>> play and if I like the sound of a classical 
>> piece, I would play it but I'm much into 
>> piano-playing singersongwriter type things from 
>> 80s on up. Anyway where have you guys found 
>> sheet music to purchase that will actually work? 
>> too is Dancing Dots the only way to either have 
>> braille or speech notation? Just wondering due 
>> to the price. I read you could use Midi files 
>> but also read that all the parts sometimes are 
>> not notated correctly. I'm just wondering how 
>> independently with anything I will be able to 
>> find and read these sheet music. Also too if 
>> anyone doesn't know of a Skype person to do 
>> lessons, are there any good accessible online 
>> piaaro teaching sites or singing sites? Sorry 
>> for so many questions. I also would not mind 
>> making
>> friends in the Portland area to practice 
>> things with or just to play around musically. My 
>> email me at edenbledbjÃ
>> -castddnet. Please 
>> contact me offlist so as not to clutter if you wish. Thanks, Eden Kizer
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