[musictlk] list of Braille music codes

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
The cheat-sheet book I use is:
How to Read Braille Music an Introduction Second Edition
by Bettye Krolick.
If you don't know Braille music already, I would start with "An 
introduction to music for the Blind Student" or take private lessons 
with a Braille music teacher like Sandra Gayer.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

On 12/11/2013 3:05 PM, Helga Schreiber wrote:
> Hi Brenda, this is Helga. How are you? I don't know Braille music 
> either, but I'm learning how to play the guitar. I actually know how 
> to play notes, but I'm practicing my chords still. since I don't know 
> to read Braille music, my brother read the print guitar book when I 
> was in high school taking a beginner guitar class, and he read me the 
> chords and notes symbols of each songs. And I would type it in Braille 
> in my own way. I don't know if you already know how to do this, but 
> what I did in order to learn how to play each song, I type it in my 
> own way! For instance, I write the notes in capital letter, for 
> chords, I write the letter and beside it I  write the word chord, and 
> for sharp,, I write the letter, and I write the word sharp beside it. 
> Just to let you know, I know how to write contracted Braille, which 
> means grade 2 Braille. So I don't really write the word sharp, I write 
> it as sh sign, which is dots 1, 4, and 6. By the way, here are some 
> examples in how I  do it:
> 1. Dot 6 a, This is the A note, dot 6 B  this is the B note.
> 2, Dot 6 C chord this is the C chord, dot 6 D this is the D chord
> 3, dot 6 Fsh This is the F sharp, dot 6 Gsh This is the G sharp
> Hope this helps. if you have any questions you are free to contact me 
> off list or on list. Thanks so much for listening to me and God bless!
> P.S. So maybe you for the flat you can write f, and for the time 
> signature you can write TS untill you learn Braille music. What do you 
> think? Just wondering.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Brenda
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:32 PM
> To: Music Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [musictlk] list of Braille music codes
>
> Good afternoon.
>
> I'm enjoying reading posts from this list and am learning some things I
> never would have thought to ask.
>
> Now I have a question.  I play the mountain dulcimer and am going to an
> event next spring.  One of the instructors will be giving me a lot of
> the tableture and mp3s of songs.  I'm going to make my own notes about
> each song such as chords used, time signature, maybe the notes in the
> first line of the melody.  This will give me a clue about what song is
> being played when I'm with the group.
>
> I need to know how to designate notes and chords.  I don't need a lot of
> detailed musical terms.  I can make up something myself, but then when I
> get around to seriously learning Braille music I'll have to relearn
> things.  I'm working on contracted Braille, then I will undertake
> Braille music.
>
> I'm hoping for a list of termms similar to the little Braille book with
> all my contractions.  If there aren't many designations, maybe someone
> could tell me the dot locations.  I probably need symbols for:
> chord
> note, sharp, flat and how to write a time signature.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> Brenda
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