Week 4: Writing out The Huckleberry Hornpipe by Byron Berline
1. Stuff done this week
- Read up on music theory in the OCA Music Foundations course.
- Feeling more confident I asked for an assignment from my mandolin teacher Thijs Rührup. This week, he challenged me to write out a piece of music played to me. I recorded his version of Byron Berline's Huckleberry Hornpipe, a texas swing fiddle piece in the key of A, which also sounds great on the mandolin. The tune, in 4/4 time, features three melody sections A, B and C of 8 bars that are played twice, each with another ending.
The exercise provided me with another opportunity to practice some more with Sibelius and to also train my musical hearing. I did not include the slides; I still don't know how to note them down in Sibelius.
Discussing this piece with my mandolin teacher, I learned I made some mistakes in my use of accidentals. For instance in bar 6, there is an ascending triplet. I used a moll sign on the last note, writing an Eb.This should have been a D#. Sounds the same, but musically incorrect. Bar 24 also shows this error.
- Feeling more confident I asked for an assignment from my mandolin teacher Thijs Rührup. This week, he challenged me to write out a piece of music played to me. I recorded his version of Byron Berline's Huckleberry Hornpipe, a texas swing fiddle piece in the key of A, which also sounds great on the mandolin. The tune, in 4/4 time, features three melody sections A, B and C of 8 bars that are played twice, each with another ending.
The exercise provided me with another opportunity to practice some more with Sibelius and to also train my musical hearing. I did not include the slides; I still don't know how to note them down in Sibelius.
Discussing this piece with my mandolin teacher, I learned I made some mistakes in my use of accidentals. For instance in bar 6, there is an ascending triplet. I used a moll sign on the last note, writing an Eb.This should have been a D#. Sounds the same, but musically incorrect. Bar 24 also shows this error.
Anyway, here is the result (with notation mistakes):
I thought it was a great exercise and I learned more about notation. To think that I could not read music at all in april 2016.
Here are my corrections:
I don't read fluently, but I have come a long way!
Here are my corrections:
I don't read fluently, but I have come a long way!
2. Listening done this week
I got tickets for Michelle David and The Gospel Sessions. Her is a gospel song of hers that I really like: https://open.spotify.com/track/7p3JVCO6QBquqjWZmD4SFp
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