The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65605   Message #1082936
Posted By: Mary in Kentucky
30-Dec-03 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: MIDI Volunteer Sought
Subject: RE: MIDI Volunteer Sought
I had the same question with the variant. Also, my version of Cakewalk won't allow a fermata -- so I took some liberties in adding a measure and some longer notes. That makes it sound right, but I don't like changing the notation. Should we include these notes in some documentation? Or can you fix that, Susan? Also, there were obvious mistakes in several places in the book I followed (the online images). (things like an eighth note when it should have been a dotted eighth, or something similar) Once again, I took the liberty to make it add up to a full measure.

I've already mentioned the tempo to Susan. Many of these are in 2/4 time and the Cakewalk default is a little fast...I'd like to hear Jerry sing them! Then one was in 3/4 and sounded a little slow to me. There is no suggestion in the book, so what should be done?

*******Note to Cakewalk users: I found that it makes a better (intended notation) transcript if you use "snap." But in syncopation (sixteenth note, eighth note, sixteenth note) it won't accept the eighth note where you want it. My solution is to enter a sixteenth note at that spot, then increase the note lenth to 60.