a ‘score’, for you so that you may get a basic idea of how the mysterious realm of music notation operates.
So today, I thought I’d ‘decipher’ a piece of sheet music, a.k.a. As someone who has spoken the language of classical music all his life, it’s easy to forget that many people have simply never been exposed to it and see musical scores no differently than ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics :-S I thought nothing of it until a family member said this really helped them understand how music worked. A cursor moves through the music accurately showing which beat you’re on as you hear it play, not unlike the bouncing ball you may remember from sing-along cartoons back in the day. One feature of the program is that you can listen to a midi version of the music you are writing right on the computer at anytime. The other day I finished a composition using the music writing program, Musescore. I’m confident you will find it’s as easy as ‘do, re, mi!’ What does it mean? Why is it organized the way it is? What do pianists see when they look at their scores? My goal is to make sheet music more understandable and less intimidating. This is a new blog series meant to educate anyone who has ever marvelled at how some people can read music.
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