[MusicTlk] guitar braille music question

[Julia LaGrand]

Sorry, I am unfamiliar with this book. I would interpret that first chunk as a C, the fourth below the C, and the sixth below the C (or above, I'm not sure because at least in piano it depends on some other contextual things). Then, I would interpret the next C being played with the third AND fifth above (or below) it. If it were above, the chords would be a half bar of F major in second inversion, then a half bar of C major in root position. If it means below, then it will be a C major chord in first inversion, followed by an F major chord in root position. Again, I'm really not the person to ask here, as this is a lot of guessing. My gut would be that the C is the top note of the chord, corresponding with my second idea of two chords accordingly. 
Thanks,
Julia On Jul 24, 2020 5:28 PM, BlindEducator <blindeducator at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Ms. LaGrand, 
>
> This does help some. If I may on asking a follow up question. Before, 
> May be it might help better if I give the source of the music. The book 
> I'm reading is "A Modern Method for Guitar" by William G. Leavitt. The 
> piece in question is "Sea to Sea." 
>
>
> It is written as follow: 
>
> 1  dots 4,5 which I know is the fifth octave. Then it has half C 
> immediately followed by dots 3,4,5,6 and 3.5.6 another half C and dots 
> 3,4,6 with 3.5. Then there's a space for the next measure I understand 
> the interval signs thanks for your explaination. But what does the 3,4,6 
> or 3,4,5,6 signs mean before the interval signs? And how would you play 
> them? Also there is one part that has a half A with dots 1,2 followed by 
> 3,4,6 followed by dot 2 then 3,5,6. Again, any assistance someone may be 
> able to provide, will be very much appreciated. Thank you. 
>
> On 7/23/2020 8:42 PM, Julia LaGrand via MusicTlk wrote: 
> > I don't know all that much about braille music, especially guitar music, so this is probably not helpful, but in violin music those symbols are intervals. 
> > Dots 3-4-6 is a third, dots 3-5 is a fifth, dots 3-5-6 is a sixth, and dots 3-4-5-6 is a fourth. They can be stacked to make chords. You may already know this and this may be a totally different use. Someone should probably verify this, but that is my understanding from a violinist's perspective. 
> > Hope that helps and I'm sorry if it doesn't! 
> > Julia On Jul 23, 2020 10:12 PM, BlindEducator via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote: 
> >> Hi, I recently came across a braille music book for guitar. It is one 
> >> from the NLS database. I had it converted into braille, but the only 
> >> thing is that it is in EBAE rather then in UEB. With that shared, I have 
> >> come across a couple of braille symbols that the book does not discuss. 
> >> these symbols. Can anybody help me. The symbols are as follow. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> dots 3 4 6 followed by dots 3 and 5 or sometimes. dots 3 4 6 followed by 
> >> 3 5 and 6. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The other symbol is dots 3 4 5 6 followed by dots 3 and 5 or dots 3 4 5 
> >> 6 followed by 3 5 6. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> These symbols show up at the end of measures if this helps. Thanks. 
> >> 
> >> 
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