Toby Rider wrote: > Steve, > > You know how that tune is supposed to sound right? I'm sure you do. > There's like at least 4-5 recordings of that tune I can think of > off-the-cuff. > So just take the notes and make them sound like the tune is supposed to > go. Tap your foot, or use a metronome and the timing should be pretty > obvious. Heck, since it's a slow air, you have all kinds of freedom to > bend the timing and tempo. You don't even have to stick to strict meter. > Just make sure you're looking your guitar-player or piano player in the > eye so they know when you're about to take "liberties" :-) > I've long since given up on getting precise accuracy out of abc's. It's a > pleasant surprise when they're dead on, and you always know who's abcs > will usually be perfect. Usually Jack's are spot-on, because precision > seems to be an important element of his personality. > Most of the time though, I just use them to either give me a rough idea > of the notes, or else to confirm what I think I've figured the notes out > to be, off the recording..
Obviously anyone who has been playing for any length of time knows that standard notation can provide no more than a mediocre representation of how a tune is really played; however in my opinion there's no excuse for not writing it as accurately as possible. Rita's question was why JC's gif file didn't match JC's midi file and I was attempting to address that, not get into any philosophical discussion about the advantages and failings of standard notation or the best way to learn a tune. JC's abc text file does match the midi file so I assume there's a glitch in the software Jack used to produce the gif file. -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
