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Stuart Legg
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Posted 12 Jun 2016 10:50 am |
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Mind you I am not recommending this to folks who play in a Symphony Orchestra but rather just as survival in a PSG situation..
Let’s say you are a Recording session PSG picker or for whatever other reason you might be handed notation for the PSG that is very busy, complicated
and difficult to nail one shot on the fly and they don’t have all day for you to analyze the notation.
Here is something I suggest .
Read through and write in the chords. Use the starting note and ending note in every bar, Don’t black out the notes as I have but just mentally see the flow of the music without concentrating on each note but see it more like a musical road map.
You will not be playing the music exactly as it is written but you should be close enough to fake your way through and then tweak any parts they may not be happy with.
You could even write the start note and ending note of each bar.
It wouldn’t take that long to do all your parts in this manor and it would be easy to fake your way through this on the fly and it will also naturally interject your style and interpretation into the music.
Here is an example of what I speak (I know it is a stretch to call this notation for PSG, just humor me OK)
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Ian Rae
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Posted 12 Jun 2016 11:18 am
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Not sure what the pen is doing that the naked eye can't do.
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 12 Jun 2016 2:25 pm
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Yes that's the idea. My illustration is just to show the visual aspect.
Most who read notation well and often would be able to do this without writing anything down.
However I would think a great deal of us here who read notation but not on a regular bases might welcome the chords spelled out and some trick to help navigate through a bar of overcrowded notes to get us up to speed.
This Idea is for those of us who need to fake it till we can make it. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2016 4:16 pm
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I often mark up music in pencil with fret number + pedal/knee letter. My copedent is non-standard (D6th) so the picture below isn't readable for most but it works for me. You could just as easily write things like 3AB and 6AF for E9th.
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 13 Jun 2016 4:21 pm
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I do that also, B0b...
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Bill Cunningham
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Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2016 5:12 pm
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B0b,
Maybe you could get a translation program to convert the notes to the old gospel shaped notes and get along much faster!  
But seriously, I wish I would spend the time to learn either neck well enough to play that way!
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2016 5:26 pm
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I used to figure out and tab notate music, especially the trickier bop stuff, while I was getting familiar with where the notes where. Now I just read it, although I doubt I'll ever be a great sight reader of single lines on steel in standard notation...
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2016 8:05 pm
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I can't imagine notation like you exemplified here comes up very often for steel, even in the recording universe. Doug Livingston might correct me on that notion.
If it does, writing the chords could be very useful, but I don't think marking the contours is going to help at all - write the chords, and quickly figure out where the intervals are. If someone is writing that specifically faking it won't really help, seems to me...
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Robert Harper
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Alabama, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2016 1:34 pm Charts
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Don't recording sessions use Charts? Don't many of you use charts? Hey guys I really don't know. I have been in one recording session as an observer. The singer was singing Patsy Cline. The Steel Player played by ear. He had probably learned the song from Radio, when it first played.
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 14 Jun 2016 3:42 pm
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Sometime you just have to make your own chart.
My father playing gospel music in church often was handed his own personal song book during choir practice and he would have to be able to get his parts to several songs within a short practice session most of the time about an hour before church service. He used a method very similar to what I suggest.
My father taught me how to sing shape notes.
So so /doe so me fa /so doe te la /so doe doe ra /do / etc
Folks get a kick out of you singing a song like that they think it's something like Pig Latin  |
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