Hey Alexis Ffrench fans
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ShiroKuro Iām not very sophisticated with this. I had tried using musescore a while back for a project and just gave up. But what I do is use Newzik (you could also do this with ForScore) and just white notes out and put notes in, like youād do with pencil and paper. Examples:
Original score:
Score with Fs redistributed to the RHā I think itās pretty obvious where I used the white marker on the bottom staff and where I added the notes in the upper staff:
Hereās another one. Original score:
This is in B major, and for the final chord, the choice to redistribute was to play the low B octave with the left hand, the B major 2nd inversion with the right hand, and the final b with the LH. For a while I tried to just use hairpins:
But even though it was physically easier to play than how I was playing it before the redistribution, my brain was having a hard time with the RH 2nd inversion that was split between the two staves. So i edited it to this, which may not be totally musically kosher, but it makes sense to my brain, and makes it very easy for me to understand what Iām supposed to do.
I did a lot of redistributing in the piece, and for most of it, I just used hairpins:
Ahh, ok, I don't feel so bad for not using notation software then.
I do that kind of thing with forScore all the time. I just need to make it a point to do it for Miracles I think.
@Rubens I showed my piano teacher your Miracles scores today at my lesson, he was very impressed! (I donāt think he does much with notation software).
And btw you were right, it does get easier after the first page. I havenāt spent a lot of time on Miracles because I suddenly find myself needing to get some music ready to play with a cellist next week, but I hope to get the rest of it into my fingers soon!
Alexis Ffrenchās new album, Classcial Soul, was released yesterday!
https://www.alexisffrenchmusic.com/music/
I bought it because I hate subscription services. So far Iāve only listened once, but my first impressions are, some of the pieces are too short
I think my favorites ant this point are Reverie, Together Without You, and Chasing Yesterday. But I donāt think any piece has the āobsession factorā that possessed me with September Song and Miracles.
Is anyone else listening? What do you think?
@ShiroKuro how did things go with the cellist?
Thanks for asking! We had to postpone, unfortunately. But we have a new meeting on the calendar and since itās two weeks out m, Iām going to suggest we work on two pieces instead of one.