On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Matt Hood <mattho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I’ve got a non-technical question regarding mode of pitch input. What does > everyone prefer? Relative, absolute, or a mix of both? > I always use relative. > I’ve always stuck to relative, but I feel like I’ve hit a brick wall as > far as fluency goes. I’m still quite slow at it, and I spend half of my > time trying to work out whether I need to change octave or not - usually > getting it wrong, and watching half of a page disappear into ledger lines. Fluency should come with use. I still make mistakes, but mine often come from copy and paste. That being said, it's usually not too hard to figure out where the mistake occurred. > Add in temporary polyphonic passages, chords, etc, and it all just becomes > an exercise in trial and error. Any tips for keeping control? > Only tip : on chords, look first at the first note in each chord; those are the notes that determine the octave. The following notes within the chord are related *only* to the preceding note within that chord. So, I make sure the first note of a chord is correctly related to the preceding note (the last one before the chord) or the *first* note of the preceding chord. Happy and rewarding engraving to you, Ralph -- Ralph Palmer Brattleboro, VT USA palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
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