Re: [Harp-L] Irish Reel with Jianpu Notation

[Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Love it Brendan!
RD

On 17 July 2015 at 02:14, Brendan Power <bren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On my travels Iâve been out to Asia several times, where there is a
> thriving organised harmonica scene based around competitions at the big
> festivals, notably the Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival.
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> Most players there read music well, but not Western dots - they read Jianpu
> notation (çè). Itâs a brilliant system, and especially good for harmonica
> players, because itâs effective regardless of the key of the score or of
> the harmonica. Similar to Nashville numbered chords in concept, this goes
> much further and applies the numerical system to the melody notes, with all
> the attendant supplementary information: stresses, note lengths, pitch etc
> etc.
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> Itâs a simple idea, relating all notes to their scale degrees relative to
> the home or key note. So if youâre in C, then D is 2, E is 3, F is 4, G is
> 5 and so on. Lower octave notes have a dot below the number, and higher
> octave ones have a dot above the number. More info on Jianpu notation at
> Wikipedia:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation
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> Iâve done a short series of instructional videos for Irish Harmonica, and
> decided to incorporate Jianpu along with Western dot and harmonica TAB.
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> is the first of the videos, a catchy reel called The Maid Behind the Bar:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z168IqSG3Xc
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