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toinena

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Lynx said:
I'm not sure if I just got cussed out...
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No. I Was just so overwhelmed with appreciation I had to do some translanguaging (yes. It is a term!). No cussing in front of a pastor. Never. No cussing at all, really, especially not in Norwegian (I have had a language laundry course with one here on CC, to learn appropriate language. I hadn't really got the hold of the decent way of speaking in Christian circles...)

Rest assured. You are not either cursed or cussed by the Norwegian above. Only praised in a restrained sort of way. (No hugs and kisses sort of restrained)
 
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Dino246 said:
... and here I thought only Lynx could do that.
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the "s" got lost in the Streams of Consciousness. Not sure what procatinate means, but I am sure it is nothing a good girl like me should be associated with.
 
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Lynx said:
toinena, a question: What is the end result you are wanting? Are you printing out sheet music and then playing a physical musical instrument? Or are you making sheet music in your computer and then playing it in the computer?
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i am not needing many advanced midi plugins, because I normally hear it in my head already. I only listen through it to check if the harmonizing are OK and that I haven't done any mistakes when transposing to different tuned instruments. I want to make sheet music that can be played on real instruments of real people. For instance I would like to transcribe some pieces for symphonic orchestra or piano to wind orchestra. Or to smaller ensembles. I have a dream to make Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel) for Symphonic band.
 
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Aye. When I was learning tenor sax it always bugged me that my "C" was not the same as the piano's "C." WHY NOT?! But in any of those notation programs, transposing should be as simple as highlighting all the notes and dragging them down by semitones.
 
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toinena

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Lynx said:
Aye. When I was learning tenor sax it always bugged me that my "C" was not the same as the piano's "C." WHY NOT?!
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Because both Soprano and tenor sax is tuned in Bb. World is cruel that way. You should have played the bassoon instead. Would have saved you from a lot of headache.
 
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Yeah but now the SampleModeling virtual sax in my computer plays the same "C" that my MIDI keyboard plays. :cool:
 
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I’ve been up for the last 4 hours. No swim practice should ever have me awake in the 3am range. What has become of my life?
 
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toinena

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Yeah but now the SampleModeling virtual sax in my computer plays the same "C" that my MIDI keyboard plays. :cool:
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That, my dear friend, is cheating big time! You shouldn't fall for this dark trickery. Your brain is made for thinking not faking.
 
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Were I playing live, onstage, it would be cheating big time. I am making soundtracks at home, to sing songs with onstage, thus the end justifies the means.

But yeah, for people with perfect pitch like I have, the "transpose" button sure messes with our heads. It sounds right but... it just doesn't sound right!
 
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I don't like fall because it means summer is over and winter is coming. Brrr! Humbug!
 
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Today cooled down a bit. Finally got to wear my sweater!

and it’s my husband’s bday!!! Yay!
 
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Lynx said:
Aye. When I was learning tenor sax it always bugged me that my "C" was not the same as the piano's "C." WHY NOT?! But in any of those notation programs, transposing should be as simple as highlighting all the notes and dragging them down by semitones.
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This is something that I honestly find baffling. I thought that a "C" is a "C" is a "C", period. I understand that, in order to use a standard clef efficiently, some instruments need to have their notes shifted around, but by doing so, it has introduced far more confusion.

I'm leading a youth band, in which we normally use chord sheets rather than proper sheet music. The trouble is that I have a bass clarinet in the band, who normally plays from sheet music, so he needs his music in a different key for it to sound correct. What silliness! Whoever started this transposing thing sure made a royal mess of it. Arrggghhh...
 
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toinena

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Dino246 said:
This is something that I honestly find baffling. I thought that a "C" is a "C" is a "C", period. I understand that, in order to use a standard clef efficiently, some instruments need to have their notes shifted around, but by doing so, it has introduced far more confusion.

I'm leading a youth band, in which we normally use chord sheets rather than proper sheet music. The trouble is that I have a bass clarinet in the band, who normally plays from sheet music, so he needs his music in a different key for it to sound correct. What silliness! Whoever started this transposing thing sure made a royal mess of it. Arrggghhh...
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One step up and minus two flats or plus two sharps.... shouldn't be so difficult, should it?
 
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Dino246 said:
This is something that I honestly find baffling. I thought that a "C" is a "C" is a "C", period. I understand that, in order to use a standard clef efficiently, some instruments need to have their notes shifted around, but by doing so, it has introduced far more confusion.

I'm leading a youth band, in which we normally use chord sheets rather than proper sheet music. The trouble is that I have a bass clarinet in the band, who normally plays from sheet music, so he needs his music in a different key for it to sound correct. What silliness! Whoever started this transposing thing sure made a royal mess of it. Arrggghhh...
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Just give him a regular clarinet then. :rolleyes:
 
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toinena

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zeroturbulence said:
Just give him a regular clarinet then. :rolleyes:
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Oh dear. A regular clarinet is also tuned in Bb or even worse in A. C clarinets are hardly ever used.

I say it again. Give the boy a bassoon and the world is all glory and a C is an C.
 
Lynx

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Dino246 said:
This is something that I honestly find baffling. I thought that a "C" is a "C" is a "C", period. I understand that, in order to use a standard clef efficiently, some instruments need to have their notes shifted around, but by doing so, it has introduced far more confusion.

I'm leading a youth band, in which we normally use chord sheets rather than proper sheet music. The trouble is that I have a bass clarinet in the band, who normally plays from sheet music, so he needs his music in a different key for it to sound correct. What silliness! Whoever started this transposing thing sure made a royal mess of it. Arrggghhh...
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The "C" you are thinking of is concert "C." If people are talking about music and they mention a "C" it is probably concert "C." If two tenor sax players are talking and they mention a "C" it is probably something different.

Why? Beats me. All I know is I don't have to mess with that any more because all my instruments are virtual and a "C" is a "C" no matter if I load a virtual flute or a virtual electric guitar.
 
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