Hey Alexis Ffrench fans

ShiroKuro · 2024-09-10T11:05:25+00:00

So how many Alexis Ffrench fans are there here? I am desperate to get the score for Miracles, but it’s not available. Tunescribers will transcribe it for $11...

Josephine

I really like this, figuring out a piece together here on this forum. I got the rhythm wrong earlier and @Rubens pointed that out. Maybe it's still not completely right. But it's so nice to be here around people who all love piano music so much and trying to figure out what this composer is playing together.

kanadajin

I take that last comment back, no Ab repeated. It was an artefact at reduced speed which vanished at faster playback.

kanadajin

OK my earlier transcription from measures 8 to 11 would immediately append to Rubens’ work. I do think the notes are accurate (?). Of course, the notation has to be doubled in speed to be consistent with the beginning of the score. I attempted to replicate bars 8 and 9 as as such in bar 15 (same notes, double speed). But it is a bit of a dog’s breakfast 🙂 Likely a MuseScore limitation or one of the writer !!! (font is also different - what are you using Rubens - Finale?)

Rubens

kanadajin
A very old software named Noteworthy Composer.

Ithaca

This group attempt is fascinating to watch - since I have zero skills in this area, it’s pure mysterious magic to me. ❤️

Rubens

So here is my latest draft. It hasn't been proofread yet, but if there are mistakes they are in the correct harmony🙂

Edits: a few minor things. My apologies if you printed the score before all the edits

rogerch

Rubens You are amazing! I haven’t heard this piece but I’m going to try out this transcription tonight. Since you’ve done the work I can’t pass up the opportunity to try it!

kanadajin

Looks like great work, Rubens. You have not been wasting time 🙂

I yet have to have a closer look. Incidentally, after working a little more with MuseScore I was able to clean up the dog’s breakfast I mentioned above. While the font is different, it now does look much more similar to the layout you did in Noteworthy Composer.

ShiroKuro

😳😳😳😳
OMG you are amazing!!!! Is that the whole piece???

I wish I didn’t have to work today! 😅 (I’m in the U.S. and it’s 7am here. Your post is the first thing I’m seeing)

I can’t wait to come home and try it!!!
❤️🎶❤️🎶❤️🎶❤️

ShiroKuro

I have been looking at the score while eating my breakfast. I can’t wait to try it!!!!!
❤️❤️❤️

Rubens

ShiroKuro
I'm glad you appreciate the effort!
Actually it was a pleasure because it was a fun exercise. And made me discover this composer. I like his sensitivity, and the occasionally Brahmsian texture of this piece.

Ithaca

Rubens This is a bit OT, but....are you putting the piece through a computer program to get a rough transcription, and then listening to the differences to make the program output more accurate, or are you just listening to the piece and transcribing it completely on your own? Both seem insanely amazing to me. (I really want to do an ear-training course now.)

ShiroKuro

Glad you like his music! He has put out a lot in the last few years. I discovered him early in the pandemic, and he did an online master class, which I attended, which was wonderful!

He has made a lot of his pieces available in sheet music, but I invariably fall in love with the ones that aren't! Like this one 😃

Rubens

Ithaca
Just listening.
I have to thank my first piano teacher who convinced me to learn solfege and ear training right from the beginning of my training many many years ago!

Pallas

Rubens I have to thank my first piano teacher who convinced me to learn solfege and ear training right from the beginning of my training many many years ago!

Ugh, I WANT WANT WANT THIS!!! I'm so glad you got to have it!

kanadajin

In my case, I had just a bit of ear training and solfège but every little bit you have helps. I usually need to rely on software essentially to slow down the playback without altering the pitch and loop sections. This way it gives me more of a chance to get the notes, since I am surely a bit of a slowpoke 😮.

Rubens

kanadajin I usually need to rely on software essentially to slow down the playback

Oh I definitely did that a few times here😅

Rubens

rogerch
That's a good approach. Just make sure to make the melody stand out clearly, because the accompaniment is often in the same register as the melody. On the right hand the melody notes are those with the stems pointing up. Make those notes ring like bells! Also feel free to use the pedal a lot. Oh and the ending chord is to be rolled (couldn't find the symbol in the software). Enjoy!

rogerch

I played it through a couple of times. The transcription was easy to follow and sounded good (except for a few times when I played G instead of Gb... oops!). I still haven't listened to the composer play it and I probably won't if I'm going to play this more. I like to develop my own interpretation first before listening to anyone else's.🙂

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