Re: Re: [Harp-L] diatonic tablature for the chromatic scale

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "john" <jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Harp-L] diatonic tablature for the chromatic scale


> > Music-notation software makes it easy to transpose a song in any key to 
> > any
> > other key.
>
> What software do you recommend?

I use Allegro but I don't doubt that others are equally effective.

> For instance, you arrive at a recording session, harps in hand, and are 
> handed sheet music.  You think of perhaps three different diatonics 
> (positions), which, for different reasons, strike you as having 
> advantages.  You pull out your laptop and portable scanner, scan in the 
> music, transpose it onscreen, try the three options, and decide on one. 
> You print the music on your portable printer, set it on the music stand 
> and play.  What software will allow that to happen in a seamless way?

Computer transposition obviously isn't going to solve that problem.  If you 
are a professional and have a recording session where they hand you sheet 
music, then you can be presumed to be able to read music or to have 
extraordinary "by ear" capabilities.  If you are expected to follow the 
sheet music, then you read it accurately on a C chromatic.  If it is blues, 
then you look at the key and take off doing your thang.  This all started 
with a request for the tab to "Harlem Nocturne"  by a person sitting at his 
computer.

Robert Bonfiglio tells of arriving at recording sessions, discovering that 
what they wanted fit another musician's chops better than his, and calling 
in that other musician.  The other fellow would occasionally reciprocate.

My proposal was offered to make it easier to read music on other-than-C 
harps.  I hoped to tempt those beginners averse to standard notation to get 
their feet wet.

Vern
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