If I have a piece of music in front of me and want to write down where to do taps and cuts and slides etc are there accepted symbols or letters to use? e.g. a trill in music is usually written Tr. If so would some kind person list them for me please? :-0
I think they’re ususlly written in as grace notes – smaller notes before/between other notes, with slurs going to the main note. A roll is kind of a sideways curlicue. You can find several tunes written out in standard notation with annotation at Brother Steve’s:
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html
Anyone who hasn’t seen the transcriptions and discussions that Steve and Peter have done is really missing out on something valuable.
Charlie
Thanks. That will help quite a lot.
selkie
May I recommend this cheap shareware program ?
http://www.myriad-online.com/enindex.htm
Though it’s French, I discovered it as a link on Shaw’s whistles site.
Melody assistant does handle all classic symbols, including all kinds of grace notes and appogiaturi
I always thought that grace notes were pretty misleading, at least psychologically.
When I want to put cuts or taps on a piece of sheet music I write in a little accent mark above or below the note. As far as I know no one else does this, though.
For a slide, you can do it a couple of ways. Another (folk) term for a “slide” is a “smear”, which is written as “Sm” above the note to be ornamented. Or you can use “Gl.” for “glissando.”
Redwolf
That’s exactly what I need Red wolf. Thanks.
Is a slide (smear) the same thing as a bend?
One of the ways I learn new tunes, especially to learn the subtleties of good players, is to transcribe them as completely as I am able, including ornamentation. [For you Traditionalists, I don’t then slavishly learn to mimic the interpretation]
I use ABC2Win to convert ABCs to staff notation, and in that package “guitar chords”, or printing above the staff, is easy to do. Since the transcription is intended for my eyes only, this is the scheme I use –
Using Bill Ochs’ terminology, for a cut, I put a “C” above the note, “T” for tap, “/” (forward slash) for a slide or bend up into that note, backslash for a bend down into that note (rare), “`” (tilde) for a long or “off-beat” 3 note roll, “SR” for Bill Ochs’ definition of a short roll (rare, but Seamus Ennis used them), and for some unknown reason other than it’s easy to see, I use “V” to indicate a breath.
To each his own.
Bruce
[ This Message was edited by: BruceW on 2002-11-21 18:43 ]
On 2002-11-21 18:14, Lizzie wrote:
Is a slide (smear) the same thing as a bend?
I think so. It is if a bend is what you get when you play the note below the one you want, then gradually slide your finger off the tone hole, “sliding” up to the target note.
Redwolf