I ended up not being able to spend as much time on this yesterday as Iād hoped, but I had a hard time with itā¦. I also didnāt read it while listening to the original but Iāll try to include time for that tonight, so that may help.
Itās hard for me to read, but I canāt decide why ā I mention this because if I could articulate whatās hard about it, you all could probably offer me advice.
I sort of fumbled through the first few pages, but tonight Iāll 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 Iām having a hard time reading it because Iām trying to find the different lines but theyāre running togetherā¦.
How many voices do you think there are? Iām 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 thatās right, Iām 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 āhearā 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 didnāt put a time signature on the score? š
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 Iām looking really hard to match up where notes in the LH and the RH line up, and where they donāt. 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 donāt mean to complain, especially since you made this score out of the kindness of your heart! But maybe if you see where Iām 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 thereās 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 Iām curious what you might have to say, since youāre playing this without knowing the original. What tempo do you think youāre playing at?
That might be part of my problem, I canāt hear it slow in my head, but I need to play it slow for now.
