Hey Alexis Ffrench fans
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?)
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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.
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!!!
I have been looking at the score while eating my breakfast. I can’t wait to try it!!!!!
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
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 .
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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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!
I want to learn this piece too but I'm on a trip, so I don't have a piano for a week. I need @Sophia 's cat piano.
I ended up not being able to spend as much time on this yesterday as I’d hoped, but I had a hard time with it…. I also didn’t read it while listening to the original but I’ll try to include time for that tonight, so that may help.
It’s hard for me to read, but I can’t decide why — I mention this because if I could articulate what’s hard about it, you all could probably offer me advice.
I sort of fumbled through the first few pages, but tonight I’ll try to zoom in on just the first page, and see if I can get the notes on the page to sound like what I hear in my head.
I think I’m having a hard time reading it because I’m trying to find the different lines but they’re running together….
How many voices do you think there are? I’m thinking there are three? The melody line, the bottom accompaniment and then the line in the middle, which I think of as the inner voice.
If that’s right, I’m wondering if it might help to practice just the melody and the bottom accompaniment line, and then the melody and the inner line, and then maybe I can “hear” it in my head better.
Also, I am having a hard time finding the count, obviously I can count the beats on counts 1, 2, 3, 4 (that reminds me, @Rubens did you know that you didn’t put a time signature on the score?
And those beats are (mostly) easy to find for the melody line.
But where there are rests in the inner voice, I have to really stare at the notes, state at the score, to see what kind of a rest something is (i.e., 8th rest, 16th rest) and then I find I’m looking really hard to match up where notes in the LH and the RH line up, and where they don’t. If that makes sense.
I think maybe it might be easier for me to sightread if there was one fewer measure per line and that inner voice line was spread out more. (I don’t mean to complain, especially since you made this score out of the kindness of your heart! But maybe if you see where I’m struggling, you could offer some advice?)
Anyway, I assume that once I spend a little more time with it, that issue will dissolve.
I think I had a similar problem with September Song, because it has these inner voices and it took me sort of while to decide how to distribute some of those inner notes across the RH and LH. I think the music that is easiest to sightread is music where there’s almost zero on-the-fly decision-making needed about those kinds of questions.
So hopefully, since I eventually found my way into the score for Sept Song, that means I will find my way into the score for this piece.
@Rubens if, after reading this probably incoherent message, you have any playing advice (or reading advice) please share!
Also, @rogerch I’m curious what you might have to say, since you’re playing this without knowing the original. What tempo do you think you’re playing at?
That might be part of my problem, I can’t hear it slow in my head, but I need to play it slow for now.
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Hmmm, looking at Sept Song, I can’t decide if it’s easier than Miracles or not… I can play Sept Song now, so it’s hard to compare.
I think Sept Song has a more obvious melody line, so that may make it easier… and fewer rests. You wouldn’t think rests should add difficulty, but I think they add a reading challenging (maybe only for someone like me who doesn’t play by ear?)
Here’s Sept Song if you want to listen: