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Ode to Tragedy
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 Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:46 am Post subject: Examine 'memories of green' piece... |
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Here is one of my fav tunes from blade runner...took me quite a bit to find the sheet music for it...
http://img156.imageshack.us/g/memofgreen1.jpg/
*If you click the zoom function in the top right of the images it'll bring them up to a readable size
So it is originally meant for piano- would it be suitable for violin, I think so from the sounds of it although there is a few chords and stuff I am not sure what you'd do with.
How easy/hard will this piece be? I don't understand quite a bit of the arrangements.
Any other pertinent points to note about the piece? It doesn't seem that hard except from that most of it is in higher positions but the actual notes are pretty simple- just from what I gather from listening to it. |
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Benedict White
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| Looks a bit tricky to me... |
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Ode to Tragedy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Wow I just tried it using my autotuner to match up what I am guessing are the correct notes and it was real hard as those notes were reaching right up the neck on E.
Prob be way easier just to learn it on piano for now  . |
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Benedict White
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I can see the notes are way up on the E string which is why I said it was tricky. |
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Lemuel
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ode,
Using your piano to help, you can transpose the notes one octave lower to make it easier for violin. |
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Ode to Tragedy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Right; I had been thinking the same thing.
What does an octave lower equate to? How many lower on the staff/stave? do I shift the notes down? |
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Lemuel
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you at least know the note names on the piano and how the notes repeat themselves after playing 7 white keys going up or down? So, if you know where on the piano the right hand plays those high notes, you would just move your hand towards the left until you hit the same set of note names. |
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Ode to Tragedy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have a piano...
When I referred to learning to play it on piano I meant in the distant future when visiting my mother  .
I know how they repeat themselves on violin- a, b, c, d, e, f, g.. a..etc.
Let's stick with the violin if you care to explain it more as I have one and am more familiar with this instrument than any other now. |
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Lemuel
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| Ode to Tragedy wrote: | | ...I know how they repeat themselves on violin- a, b, c, d, e, f, g.. a..etc.... |
It will require some work on your part - to do some transposition. Do you know the note names on the staff (those 5 lines and spaces in between)? You would have to manually count up to find the note names for those high notes and then transpose them to a lower note of the same note.
(Knowing that there are 5 lines and 4 spaces in a staff)
For example the first note in "Memories of Green" is an F#. Since it is two high for you to reach, you can write an F# on the top line of the staff which is also an F#.
The second note would be C#. You would write a C# in the second space from the top of the staff (in between the second and third lines of the staff).
The third note would be D. You would write D on the second line from the top of the staff.
It takes a little extra work, but you'll start to learn the names of those high notes if you do this often enough. When you start to play in higher positions, you'll recognize them right away. |
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Ode to Tragedy
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Ah I see, So the notes would be just the same ones but at a lower level.
Yes I am familiar with what notes are which on the staff (not off by heart but if I went back to the source materials).
I'll give it a crack. |
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