With YouTube, you sometimes get exactly what you paid for it. Someone on here mentioned the following a while back - I've found it very useful for finding higher-than-average-quality MP3's of tunes.
A custom Google search engine for finding tutorial tunes online, e.g., when you want to learn "Geese in the Bog" and you need an MP3 of someone playing the tune to listen to and learn from. You can find the search engine at:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=00045 ... r71mpimhd0
KatieBell wrote:OK.
I can "translate" the scored music by saying "Every Good Boy Does Fine" on each note and making it a letter, but I don't yet know which letter corresponds with which holes, so I then make the letter into numbers by consulting an illustrated chart. I figured by ear and with illustrations I'd be doing better.
I second what someone below said. You need to get to the stage of going straight from stave to response. You do need to know the note names to do the first notes. But after that reading music is about the gaps between notes, rather than the names. So thing about the starting note then the number up or down.
eg instead of
"A, thats t1 and t2, B, that's just t1, F, that's t1-2 and b1"
think:
"A that's t1 and t2, 1 up, 3 down" etc.
Also, you don't need to install ABC software. The translator at
http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php works very nicely, transposes if you need it, and generates MIDIs if you really must use 'em. By all means install something if being on-line is a problem, but you may not want to clutter up your machine.
LOL! I don't purchase music online because times are tough for all of us. But I want to learn, so I'm doing what I can with free tutorials, the awesome advice of those here, and practice.
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