Re: [Harp-L] Session tools: transposing a score to play on any diatonic (was: diatonic tablature for the chromatic scale)

[Philharpn@xxxxxxx]

Don't sell youself short. If you can sight-read in the key of C you are two 
weeks ahead of anybody who can't. (Everything else being equal: technical 
skills on harp.) 

Because if you can only read   music in C, you can make your own tab on the 
fly, because you have already "cracked" the system and understand how it works. 
So at least you get the timing right. 



Phil Lloyd






In a message dated 6/5/08 4:59:02 PM, jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> The consideration of scenarios such as the one I describe below has
> dissuaded me from really devoting time to learning to sight-read on
> diatonic, but now I think technologies are developed enough that a
> session diatonic player, when handed a score at a studio, could generate
> and print a transposed version of it in reasonable time using equipment
> that would fit in a small suitcase: a scanner; a laptop; and a printer. 
> 
> As for software, a call to MakeMusic, Inc. confirms that Allegro has
> a scanner module that converts scanned sheet music images to Finale
> files.  And if that module does not do a good enough job of recognizing
> notation, then the third-party producer of that module, Musitek, sells
> more powerful versions, e.g. SmartScore Professional. 
> 
> If the laptop had no cooling fan and had software to scrolled a displayed
> score, then maybe the printer could be left at home.
> 
> This all sounds pretty cool, but then I'm not a session musician (yet). 
> Could this really work?  Rob?  Robert?
> 
> -John Thaden
>   Little Rock, AR
> 
> 
> Vern Smith <jevern@xxxxxxx> wrote
> >>> Music-notation software makes it easy to transpose a
> >>> song in any key to any other key.
> 
> I asked
> >> What software do you recommend?
> 
> Vern replied
> > I use Allegro but I don't doubt that others are equally effective.
> 
> I continued
> >> 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?
> 
> Vern replied
> > 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.
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