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Thread #158217   Message #3739866
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
26-Sep-15 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Suffragette Waltz - something different
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Suffragette Waltz - something different
Unless you have a piano (which people do in this world), you'd need a group to play it. But it would be fun.

One of the things I did for myself was raise the notation (but not the sound) of the lowest line one octave and then add text at the beginning saying "down 8." Otherwise I couldn't begin to figure out what the notes were.

I have a friend who teaches piano, and one year she got a new student, a black girl who had been studying with an old man called Professor Someone. Unfortunately, the Professor had died.

He had taught her to double the bass note of an oompah an octave down, whether it appeared on the page or not. In the MIDI from the university, that doubled bass note by itself is the bottom line. It looks strange, but it's simple, really.

My friend wisely decided not to interfere with any of the Professor's traditions.