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Music Making
Jul. 21st, 2010 03:48 pm I've been wrestling with Finale software yesterday and today in order to get my music in a readable, playable format. With my father's phone tech support help, (Now isn't that a first, with the elder supporting the younger in computer tech applications?) I was able to widen the spaces between staffs so that all the lyrics could fit.
Of course, keeping track of which lyric one is one is still an issue, but at least I don't have to go cross-eyed across pages to read lyrics on one page while reading notes on another as I sing and play counter-melody on guitar!
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solomons_pond and pondside helped me with re-chording a song, and finding chords for an ear worm ("Tapioca", by Allegra.) To my surprise, Finale automatically changes the typed in chords above the song as well as the notes when it transposes, as long as the chords are "attached" to a note in the staff. Kewl.
I made a separate support call to dad, in which he helped me figure out what notes ought to go in a C4 chord. I saw it in one ofcatsittingstill 's compositions that I'm trying to learn how to play, and went "What is THAT?!?" My theory books were not helpful. My guitar chord books did not show any chords with a 4 by it. My music lesson: father was able to tell me that a C chord has three notes: C-E-G, the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. C4, also known as Csus, omits the third (the E) and changes it to the fourth, an F. This results in a chord composed of the notes C-F-G. I was able to look up a Csus chord in the big guitar chord book I have.
With this information, I was able to figure out how to make a C4 chord on my banjo all by myself, by working out the notes on the fretboard! I shall have to compare notes with Cat to determine whether my fingering matches what she uses on the mandolin, just out of curiosity.
Of course, keeping track of which lyric one is one is still an issue, but at least I don't have to go cross-eyed across pages to read lyrics on one page while reading notes on another as I sing and play counter-melody on guitar!
solomons_pond and pondside helped me with re-chording a song, and finding chords for an ear worm ("Tapioca", by Allegra.) To my surprise, Finale automatically changes the typed in chords above the song as well as the notes when it transposes, as long as the chords are "attached" to a note in the staff. Kewl.I made a separate support call to dad, in which he helped me figure out what notes ought to go in a C4 chord. I saw it in one of
catsittingstill 's compositions that I'm trying to learn how to play, and went "What is THAT?!?" My theory books were not helpful. My guitar chord books did not show any chords with a 4 by it. My music lesson: father was able to tell me that a C chord has three notes: C-E-G, the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. C4, also known as Csus, omits the third (the E) and changes it to the fourth, an F. This results in a chord composed of the notes C-F-G. I was able to look up a Csus chord in the big guitar chord book I have.With this information, I was able to figure out how to make a C4 chord on my banjo all by myself, by working out the notes on the fretboard! I shall have to compare notes with Cat to determine whether my fingering matches what she uses on the mandolin, just out of curiosity.
