11 November 2022
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Today I’ve been working on getting the Christmas bass parts for the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra and the Charnwood Concert Band fully set up in ForScore on my iPad. For those not used to musical nomenclature, that’s what a pad … Continue reading
11 December 2021
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As a lot of the music I’m playing with CSWO is written at pitch, I’ve been resetting many of the parts to make it easier to keep up with. It is also a good opportunity to keep developing my engraving … Continue reading
4 November 2021
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I’m slowly making progress through the sheets of music I’ll need for Christmas gigs with the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra, creating Lilypond scores via the Frescobaldi GUI. However, there are a lot still to do as I try to minimise … Continue reading
17 October 2021
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Up until recently, I’d done most of my music editing using Lilypond (the engine) and Frescobaldi (the graphical interface), two excellent Open Source tools. I was running them in a virtual Linux machine hosted on my MacBook and I’ve still … Continue reading
6 March 2020
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working hard on preparing for the Humpty Dumpty pantomime at Barrow upon Soar (tickets still available, I think). Before the first rehearsal, I’d been given a copy of the music but it … Continue reading
16 September 2016
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I think my ukulele group has almost got the hang of The Colosseum Hornpipe so I did some searching to identify another tune to add to the repertoire. I had a trusty repository of choices in the form of David … Continue reading
20 May 2015
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Following on from Sunday’s post about using Logic as a tool for transcribing, I’ve had a chance to test the results at last night’s String Project rehearsal. We gave it a couple of run throughs and it looks like it … Continue reading
30 November 2014
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Today is the start of Advent and also the first practise for the carol choir at St Clement’s. Our candlelit carol service will be at 6:30pm on Sunday 14 December and this year we are following a fairly traditional “Nine … Continue reading
14 November 2014
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Today I’ve mainly been getting ready for tonight’s String Project gig. Well, that and chopping and sawing more firewood to take advantage of the clear blue skies that came after the morning deluge. Getting ready for the gig involves practising … Continue reading