Forum: General music tips and questions
01-31-2014, 04:56 PM
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Shuffle Beat
Over the years that I have used Notation Composer, I have tried to become a better writer of drum parts for Swing/Jazz Band and Pop music. I have explained previously that at the time I attended...
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-26-2014, 01:58 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 44,278
Re: Autumn Nocturne Septet
Hi Sherry,
Wow! What a lot to think about. This is an instance where it would be nice to pull up a comfy chair, a favorite beverage and chat about "stuff" for a couple of hours.
Is that a...
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Forum: Tips and tricks for using Notation Software products
01-25-2014, 11:47 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 101,579
Re: Swing Feel
I have added another score that features the points made in this discourse. You can see/hear "Autumn Nocturne" at:
http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?p=64782#post64782
Ralph
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-25-2014, 11:43 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 44,278
Autumn Nocturne Septet
“Autumn Nocturne” was written by Josef Myrow in 1941. In my earlier playing days, my band was named “The Nocturnes” -- I like to say that a nocturne is a musical form, and we were nocturnal...
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-22-2014, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 63,641
Re: Yesterdays Septet
Sherry had pointed out to me that I had a lot of extraneous parts in the Display Part list. Cleaned those out and reposted the .not file. RRR
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-12-2014, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 35,384
Re: Goodnight Irene
Hi Peter,
On the off chance that you may find it interesting and have not yet seen it, I would like to point you to the "Something" duet I arranged for the "Learning and Teaching" subforum at:
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Forum: Tips and tricks for using Notation Software products
01-07-2014, 11:18 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 101,579
Re: Swing Feel
Hi Sherry,
I was dead certain that Mark's implementation of a turn would be "spot on".
Thanks for the revisit to my school days. The term "inverted mordent" does sound familiar, although I...
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Forum: Tips and tricks for using Notation Software products
01-07-2014, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 101,579
Re: Swing Feel
In the aftermath of my cleanup after completing Yesterdays (http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=31841&highlight=yesterdays), I thought I would try to extrapolate some of the new tricks...
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-06-2014, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 63,641
Re: Yesterdays Septet
Thank you very much for the tips and compliments, Sherry. And thank you, David, for your clever way of handling this kind of problem.
I have updated the Notation file to reflect the changes.
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Forum: Tips and tricks for using Notation Software products
01-05-2014, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 101,579
Swing Feel
For those of you who are interested in this thread, I have added another example of the usage of the variations outlined in my first post on Swing Feel. See/hear the full version at: Yesterdays...
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-05-2014, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 63,641
Yesterdays Septet
"Yesterdays" was written in 1933 by Jerome Kern for the Broadway show "Roberta", where it was introduced by Irene Dunne.
The septet format was my chosen band size for the band I fronted when I was...
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Forum: Share Your Music
01-04-2014, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 35,384
Re: Goodnight Irene
Good capture, Peter. That's a lot of hard work. And thanks for the You Tube reference. I had never seen/heard "Slow Hand" do this title.
Ralph
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Forum: "Learning and Teaching" pieces
01-04-2014, 12:56 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 333,218
A Taste of Honey Duet
"A Taste of Honey" is one of the two Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass hits for which I have written a duet this month. The song was written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow in 1965, and subsequently...
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Forum: "Learning and Teaching" pieces
01-04-2014, 12:56 AM
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Replies: 0
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Mexican Shuffle Duet
"Mexican Shuffle" is one of the two Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass hits for which I have written a duet this month. The song was written by Sol Lake in 1964, and subsequently recorded by Herb...
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Forum: Suggestions and feature requests
12-26-2013, 02:45 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 30,664
Re: No Autofill on Problem Tickets
Hi Sherry,
I don't think it would be a browser problem. We do a lot of online shopping and account management, and they are autofilling.
Thanks for checking.
Ralph
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Forum: Suggestions and feature requests
12-25-2013, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 30,664
No Autofill on Problem Tickets
The new procedure for reporting new problems does not prefill name and email address, like I believe the previous reporting scenario did.
Ralph Rayner
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Forum: Share Your Music
12-21-2013, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 39,479
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Forum: General music tips and questions
12-10-2013, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 36,250
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Forum: General music tips and questions
12-09-2013, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 43,780
Re: Pitch Bend
Thanks David (and Sherry). I will look into this approach. Ralph
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Forum: General music tips and questions
12-07-2013, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 43,780
Pitch Bend
Is there a way to prevent a Pitch Bend from automatically returning to the original pitch? I would like to include a jazz/swing band effect called a drop, i.e., the player starts playing the...
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Forum: "Learning and Teaching" pieces
12-03-2013, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 87,260
Re: Christmas/Holiday Duets - O, Christmas Tree
Hi David,
The only thing I don't like about this usage of Free Text is that Free Text does not move proportionally when you transpose, which I would think many followers of this Forum do. But I...
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Forum: "Learning and Teaching" pieces
12-02-2013, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 87,260
Christmas/Holiday Duets - O, Christmas Tree
O, Christmas Tree (also known as "O, Tannenbaum") is credited to Melchior Franck.
There is a new direction symbol in this piece that I don't believe I have used before in these duets. In measure...
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Forum: "Learning and Teaching" pieces
12-02-2013, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 44,909
Christmas/Holiday Duets - Jolly Old St. Nicholas
This Christmas duet is fairly easy. The only reason for multiple endings is to include a ritard in the second ending.
There is some dispute as to who is the composer of this traditional song. It...
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Forum: General music tips and questions
11-25-2013, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 35,933
Chord Symbol on the Off Beat
Hi Sherry,
I know you gave me a workaround for this before, but I'm not remembering the procedure correctly. I have two contiguous eighth notes and I want to put a Chord Symbol over each of them....
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Forum: General music tips and questions
11-21-2013, 05:52 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 47,554
Re: Need help in chording!
Hi Sherry,
My apologies for my delayed response on this. I have read the information at the link and have been most impressed (and grateful) for the reference to the obscure (to me) Windows Media...
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