What I need is this: I need a program where I can make or a website where I can copy the fingering for each individual note. You know, where it shows the six holes and the appropriate hole is darkened…
A friend of mine is having trouble reading music and I thought this might help. He is doing ok “learning by ear” and I have also encouraged him on this and let him know that this is an honored way of going about learning traditional tunes.
But in a pinch, I wanted to get him this individual note thing…
TIA
Kim
“Whistling women and crowing hens never come to no good end”
[ This Message was edited by: Kim in Tulsa on 2002-10-04 11:51 ]
Download the font, read the instructions, and go into Microsoft Word. Activate the Whistle Font (instead of, say, Times New Roman or whatever). When you type certain letters (as shown in the instructions) a diagram of the whistle will show up instead. I used this with my student while she was learning the fingering and names of the notes.
This is just what I want…but I have Works. Will it work with Works? I think I looked at this briefly before and thought I ought to ask you about it and never got around to it. I was hoping you’d respond!
Kim, If you can’t find a system of tab that suits you you can achieve the same results by writing notes D, E, etc, indicating the length of the note and using up and down arrows (sort of like vectors for the mathematically minded) to indicate which way the melody is going. Then your friend only needs to learn the finguring for each note. (Only this to use the system. They still need to learn each song of course.)
[ This Message was edited by: Wombat on 2002-10-04 11:09 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Wombat on 2002-10-04 11:10 ]
I got it to work! Not in my word processor but in my email client! I’ll tell my friend about the font. I don’t really have anything to send him right now…but I might in the future or his wife might be able to set it up for him, because she’s a music teacher!! Here’s a screen shot:
Kim, how do you indicate register and length of note in that system? Yes, I know, I should follow up the lead but it sounded as though you had troubles to start with and I don’t have any practical need to know; just curious.
Kim you spelled my name wrong - there are too many u’s. Correct number of umlauts, though (chat room joke)
Wombat - you can’t register anything other than the note pitch using the font. What I do is take the sheet music, port it to word as an image, put the tab underneath each note, and print it out or save as a screen shot. I can read enough music to know the note lengths, just can’t convert the pitch values fast enough to play.
Actually, I am improving…I don’t need to use tab anymore, I can just write the name of the note under the staff. Progress in the war against little black dots!
Yeah - that’s something that keeps getting me too! I learned the tab program before I started poking at ABC, so I am always getting things wrong when someone posts an ABC. shrug Email the author!
I do a similar thing, but I am lazier. I write down the number of the whole to be covered. So “DED” would be written “656” in my notation.
What I like about this is I can do it quickly in my head (I don’t have to translate a “D” into a “6”), and I can pick up any whistle key and play the song. Plus, it is easy for my 6 year old daughter to quickly learn a song.
The problem is that if I ever want to use any of the ABC sheet music converters, I have to translate to ABC prior running the sheet music program.
John Mac
ps I have had a hard time using the ABC sheet music translators. I need to spend more time getting one of them to work.
Wombat - you can’t register anything other than the note pitch using the font. What I do is take the sheet music, port it to word as an image, put the tab underneath each note, and print it out or save as a screen shot. I can read enough music to know the note lengths, just can’t convert the pitch values fast enough to play.
Actually, I am improving…I don’t need to use tab anymore, I can just write the name of the note under the staff. Progress in the war against little black dots!
Using TAB and music would be very messy. Sort of defeats the purpose of using tab in the first place. Your new method just is the system I was suggesting with notes on lines replacing arrows. It’s better actually because you can see the contour of the tune and you’re getting just that much closer to reading music. Other ways to notate register is to use say upper case for the bottom octave and lower for the top (Is that what Kim does, her post isn’t in front of me now obviously?) or to use a prime (A’) for notes in the upper octave. But I like your new system best of all for the reasons given.
[ This Message was edited by: Wombat on 2002-10-04 12:19 ]
On 2002-10-04 12:16, Wombat wrote:
Using TAB and music would be very messy. Sort of defeats the purpose of using tab in the first place. Your new method just is the system I was suggesting with notes on lines replacing arrows. It’s better actually because you can see the contour of the tune and you’re getting just that much closer to reading music. Other ways to notate register is to use say upper case for the bottom octave and lower for the top (Is that what Kim does, her post isn’t in front of me now obviously?) or to use a prime (A’) for notes in the upper octave. But I like your new system best of all for the reasons given.
It’s not the most elegant thing in the world, I’ll grant you that, but it doesn’t look bad. I can’t upload anything from work or I would post an example. But for someone like me who is working toward no longer needing the tab or note names, it is a great help.
It’s not the most elegant thing in the world, I’ll grant you that, but it doesn’t look bad. I can’t upload anything from work or I would post an example. But for someone like me who is working toward no longer needing the tab or note names, it is a great help. >
In this game, what works for you is all that counts. I think I really meant ‘awkward’ rather than ‘inelegant’. But who cares if it works. Sounds like you don’t need to worry much longer anyway-except to help non-readers. But those dots are a big help in the end because that’s the universal language and once you speak it, whole new worlds open up. Or so they tell me, I’m a very poor reader actually, but good enough to handle whistle music—no chords are double cleffs.
I finally got it to work in XP. All of a sudden it appeared. You caould sit and tap away a tune whilst waiting for another page to laod. Or will that slow it down?
