Music question

All good. Go with whatever works best for you :slight_smile:

For what it’s worth, while I was using it, I very rarely hooked up the keyboard through midi and instead would just use Synthesia to play, pause, and rewind to play small parts of a song to learn each part individually, and then go back to play combined parts, and eventually the full song.

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@tonybe This site with the Adele song has the ABC system. :frowning:

@yebellz The same about the sheets you posted and every Google result I find. :frowning:

To give an example, if someone said they learned the Korean terms for Go years ago, you wouldn’t tell them they have to learn the Japanese terms to play, just because they are the most common/ popular/ familiar for you, right?.. :wink:

The page also shows you exactly what key to play on the piano - regardless of whether you refer to it as “C” or as “do” it’s the same key

I mean, if you want to be really rigid and insist that you are only willing to learn from resources which are very difficult to find, then I guess I can’t stop you.

If you want to show just the tiniest bit of adaptability and put little stickers on your keys labeled
C=do
D=re
E=mi
F=fa
G=sol
A=la
B=ti

then you might actually accomplish your original goal which was learning some new tunes. [shrug emoji]

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I asked for sheet music in the keys I’m used to in my country. If anyone knew where I could find that. That’s all.
I don’t need stickers or video visual aids with highlighted keys, I don’t see why you are too rigid to understand that.

It comes down to the fact that

  1. the specific resources you are looking for are really difficult to find
  2. a wealth of other resources exists, in a slightly different format
  3. the work needed to adapt to the format of the new resources is actually pretty simple (i.e. you can ignore both the “do” and the “C” information, and just look at where people put their fingers on the keys, since all piano keyboards are the same everywhere).

Given those 3 things, your options are to either continue to be frustrated by the lack of specific resources and not learn the tunes you want to learn - or - change your learning a tiny little bit and move forward on learning.

I can’t change the fact that the resources you’re looking for are unavailable. I’m just trying to point out options. If you don’t like those options, then I’m out of ideas…

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I don’t want to jump on the bandwagon, but (as a very mediocre piano player) I must say this is the first time I see sheet music with the notes written like this. I am French and took piano lessons for a few years in France with the do-re-mi system. Maybe you could look into piano books/websites for children?

So that this post is not completely useless, I strongly recommend the “Gnossiennes” by Erik Satie. They are quite simple and repetitive but very emotional and you can play with various feelings even as a beginner. A bit harder, the first pieces from “Klavierbüchlein von Anna Magdalena Bach” are very nice.

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No, what you are doing is that you can’t just say "I don’t know, sorry, best of luck :slight_smile: ". You want to impose the way you do things on me just because.

I know very well how to google things, my question was specifically about sheets with do-re-mi. You don’t get to disregard my question just because you don’t have an answer.

Also, you say they are difficult to find and unavailable, for you. A person answering from a country that uses that system could easily point me to the right place, well I didn’t happen to have one read the post. it was worth a try, I’m OK with that.

I’m not frustrated by the lack of anything, I just asked. I’m frustrated by people thinking A. I don’t know how Google works, B. I don’t know what I want.

And it’s perfectly within my rights to not want to learn a song by

This is not what I want to do. Simple as that.

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I know people say it’s simple, but I enjoy that very much. :slight_smile: I’ll try finding it, I’ll sound impressive when I play it. :slight_smile:

The sheet I posted above is “Sealed with a kiss” and I only got it printed. I know it came from a website and I had hopes that site might have more songs that I like but I can’t find it nowhere. :frowning:

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I wish you luck in your search. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

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I’ve tried that, I only found a couple and they have only exercises and children songs that mean nothing to me, if it were children songs that I’m familiar with at least I would enjoy them. :frowning:

I wish to defend @tonybe a little bit though

If anything, he wants to impose the way everybody and their dog is using to notate music

Can you substantiate this with video of a dog using sheet music correctly?

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You know, it’s the usual thing on OGS forums (I don’t participate in other forums):

-How do I boil an egg?

-Oh no, a boiled egg is not the thing, you should go for the poached egg. Read these 500 books and watch these 500 videos and also these guides, and poach lots of eggs. Also, most of us came here from omelettes, which have similarities about how the egg cooks, but poached eggs won us over.
Why insist to boil an egg, when with a little practice you can poach it?

It’s not the same exactly, but it’s the same mentality.

Some people will want to be chefs, some just want a boiled egg, but some chefs can’t process that.

The answer isn’t always to plaster what I know onto the question (the cliché about having a hammer and seeing nails everywhere), the answer is sometimes to take the time to really read what someone is asking and see if I can offer what they ask for and not reply with what I know, just because it’s my comfort zone.

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I agree that we didn’t answer your question, but it’s more like you tell us you want to eat eggs, but there’s always this pesky shell around it, thus asking for help on how to remove it before you boil the egg. Then we point out that it’s a lot easier to remove the shell after you’ve boiled the egg, and you double down that it is the first technique that you’re searching for.

I mean, sure, go ahead, but you’re making it more difficult only for yourself.

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Maybe there’s some misunderstanding going on in regards to the complexity of what I’m suggesting. Let me try a different cooking metaphor.

Let’s say you found a really yummy recipe for blueberry muffins. The problem is - the recipe is written with everything in grams, for people who bake using a baking scale, and weigh out all the ingredients (a fairly common thing in baking).

You post to a forum saying you want to make the muffin recipe, but you only have measuring cups / measuring spoons. You need the recipe in volume (milliliters) not weight (grams).

Several people point out that there are many conversion calculators available, and that - with only a tiny bit of extra work - you could convert all the measurements to what you need, and then enjoy those tasty blueberry muffins.

You then put your foot down, tell everyone that you refuse to do any extra work to convert those things on their own, and insist that you will only use a recipe which is exactly the same, but has volume rather than weight measurements - which no one can find.

The thing that confuses me the most is that in one of your posts above you said that you had ALREADY LEARNED that
do = C
re = D, etc - it sounds like you already have all the information you need. No additional complex education is required.

So yeah, I’m still a bit confused by your reaction, but - at this point - I’m concerned that I’m making it worse rather than better…

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I know that you don’t mean it that way, but it’s like you’re saying I’m stupid and don’t know that I have to remove the shell before eating it.
It doesn’t seem to matter to you that you didn’t answer my question, you just breeze past it to tell me why I’m wrong.

No, I asked for recipes in weight measurements. Anyone know where to find them? No, ok good.
All the rest in unsolicited, just because you can’t help yourself providing what wasn’t even asked.

There’s something pesky: you’re not great at reading music notation.

There’s a solution: writing the names of the notes below them.

There’s the easy way to do it: write it yourself / convert from sources with (the redundant) A, B, C, etc. written below the notes

There’s the hard way to do it: insist on us being unhelpful and demanding sources with the equivalent (and equally redundant) do, re, mi, etc. below the notes.


I’m sorry I didn’t answer your question: I can’t find the music in the way you want, not because I don’t understand what you’re asking, but because it’s very rare and moreover very easy to create yourself if you have a normal score of music.

Heck, I’d even do it for you, if you want.

You give me sheet music, I’ll give it back with “do re mi” etc. written below the notes. How about that?

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