[MusicTlk] Newbie Intro

[Tyler Zahnke]

I know that I prefer using LilyPond. Believe it or not, LilyPond files
are easier to read than Braille music/Dancing Dots files. They're
actually based on the musical alphabet, and little letter flags are
used to indicate sharp and flat, and little punctuation marks for
octaves, and numbers for note duration; it's even more simplistic than
Braille music, and there's even a Python module that comes with the
LilyPond software, Musicxml2Ly, where you can take a typical XML file
(like you'd see in MuseScore) and convert it to human-readable
text-based LilyPond format. I'm almost completely an audio learner,
but I use LilyPond to write scores for sighted musicians (and, if I
tweak the settings, I can make MIDI files too).

On 2/3/20, Shannon Williams via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Shannon and I'm from Ontario Canada. I've always loved music
> from
> a young age and took piano lessons as a young child. When I was in high
> school I learned to play the flute and still play today in a local concert
> band. When learning piano and the flute I was able to use very large
> printed
> music to learn all the theory and notes and such but now my vision has
> changed and I'm having to find new ways of learning new pieces. I used to
> have a fellow band mate input the flute music into MuseScore so that I
> could
> learn it that way and have another friend who records the part as an mp3 on
> piano so I can learn the notes and phrasing. I need to find some new ways
> of
> learning the music though because the person who used MuseScore can't do it
> anymore so all I have is the mp3 recordings. I've started looking at
> braille
> music as an option as well as Dancing Dots software. It looks like Dancing
> Dots is a bit out of my price range and it looks like getting Braille music
> from my local blindness organization (CNIB) will take a long time. I was
> wondering what other people use for learning new pieces if you don't have
> perfect pitch? Also what tools can I use during practice so that when our
> director asks us to start at a certain bar of music I can quickly reference
> where they're starting from and play along? Also if anyone knows of any
> flute tutorials or instructional material that is accessible I'm always
> looking for things like that. As I live in Canada, I do not have access to
> NLS so it's a bit more difficult for me to find instructional and practice
> material.  Any suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shannon
>
>
>
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