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I play cello, so I get confused when I have to read G clef. I can't read that 

ehh i just played it on xylophone
sounds kinda weird

I can't figure it out, for I am only a beginner saxophonists. 

Ok I was gonna play it for reals this time, but it didn't seem to make any sense, so I put it in printmusic finale, which only confirmed what i had thought

now, its one thing to use staccato marks, but its another thing to make every note a 16th note followed by a 16 note rest (except the last note of each bar, which is an 8th note, in other words the same thing)

also the chords are a problem
if you want to make something louder just make it louder don't make a chord of two identical notes

all those are chords that do nothing

and really all the other chords are either seconds or thirds which makes little sense theory-wise

i guess when its sampled over something else and there's a lot of things with it it'd be okay, but by itself it just doesn't hold up

TuffGhost wrote:

Ok I was gonna play it for reals this time, but it didn't seem to make any sense, so I put it in printmusic finale, which only confirmed what i had thought

now, its one thing to use staccato marks, but its another thing to make every note a 16th note followed by a 16 note rest (except the last note of each bar, which is an 8th note, in other words the same thing)

Actually, I've seen that a lot in music. If you saw a half note followed by a half rest, would you argue that the composer should have put a whole note instead?

also the chords are a problem
if you want to make something louder just make it louder don't make a chord of two identical notes

Yeah, I don't get that either. dingdong, could you explain?

and really all the other chords are either seconds or thirds which makes little sense theory-wise

Well, seconds might not be abundant in conventional, regular-old music, but I have seen them a lot in the music we play in band (my director picks some really awesome songs.) Thirds are really common in most music.

So... just because it's not "normal" doesn't mean it's wrong. 

Last edited by scmb1 (2011-04-09 21:02:26)

scmb1 wrote:

TuffGhost wrote:

Ok I was gonna play it for reals this time, but it didn't seem to make any sense, so I put it in printmusic finale, which only confirmed what i had thought

now, its one thing to use staccato marks, but its another thing to make every note a 16th note followed by a 16 note rest (except the last note of each bar, which is an 8th note, in other words the same thing)

Actually, I've seen that a lot in music. If you saw a half note followed by a half rest, would you argue that the composer should have put a whole note instead?

well if its truly for melodic purposes, no. however, dindong seems to be doing this simply to make the notes sound shorter, an effect which can just be achieved with a staccato

and really all the other chords are either seconds or thirds which makes little sense theory-wise

Well, seconds might not be abundant in conventional, regular-old music, but I have seen them a lot in the music we play in band (my director picks some really awesome songs.) Thirds are really common in most music.

bluhbluh i changed my mind about this part

echs wrote:

half of the chords you highlighted are actually two different notes.

hi theres these things called accidentals you might want to look in to

Last edited by TuffGhost (2011-04-10 00:25:11)

TuffGhost wrote:

scmb1 wrote:

TuffGhost wrote:

Ok I was gonna play it for reals this time, but it didn't seem to make any sense, so I put it in printmusic finale, which only confirmed what i had thought

now, its one thing to use staccato marks, but its another thing to make every note a 16th note followed by a 16 note rest (except the last note of each bar, which is an 8th note, in other words the same thing)

Actually, I've seen that a lot in music. If you saw a half note followed by a half rest, would you argue that the composer should have put a whole note instead?

well if its truly for melodic purposes, no. however, dindong seems to be doing this simply to make the notes sound shorter, an effect which can just be achieved with a staccato

Ah, but using a sixteenth note instead of a staccato-eighth allows dingdong to specify exactly how short. Some people interpret staccato to mean "half as long," but not everyone.

TuffGhost wrote:

hi theres these things called accidentals you might want to look in to

What do accidentals have to do with anything?
So you circled a bunch of notes with accidentals on them.
Here, the first mess-up was when you circled the... oh wait, the first one in bar 2 was the same note. But the others like G# and A you didn't need to circle. Don't make me look like some doofus who can't read music.
geez

TuffGhost wrote:

echs wrote:

But the others like G# and A you didn't need to circle. Don't make me look like some doofus who can't read music.
geez

if you look a bit back, where you think it's a G# and A, the A has actually been flatted, so it's really a G# and Ab (or the same note)

i mightve just made you look like some doofus who can't read music

man i see what you're saying it just looked like Gb when i had looked

Does this create anything musically? Or is it just a challenge?