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Offline Tummy

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Can someone help me?
on: October 28, 2004, 09:19:28 PM
Hello,

I'm new to the forum.  :)


Maybe this is not the right forum to ask, but I really need sheet music or tabs from this commercial. If someone wants to help me a little bit, then you can watch the commercial on this site:  https://info.omroep.nl/ster?nav=irilHsHCjEtCeDvD   
Choose in "Zoek op commercial" > "Merk adverteerder" > then choose "Merci" > then push "Zoek". After you did that, the site is gonna search for commerials. Just wait untill you see "Merci Moederdag", if it appears click it and watch it  :) . Btw, don't mind the language in the commercial and on the site, it's Dutch, so a lot of people won't understand it, but I really like the piano piece in the commercial, so if someone could help me a little with it, that would be great!

I don't play the piano for a long time now, so it's hard for me to learn it by ear.

Tnx for the help.

***EDIT: I hope this works, this is a direct link to the commercial:  https://info.omroep.nl/ster?nav=hgipHsHCjEtCuXtXFPD&type=scrcomm   EDIT***

Offline mound

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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #1 on: October 29, 2004, 07:06:01 PM
I'm not going to click some strange looking link that somebody posts in a forum on their very first time posting. Sorry! Um.. Welcome to the forums I guess! I hope this isn't some kind of spam.

by the way, there are no "tabs" for piano music, that's what sheet music is.. "tab" is for lazy guitar players.

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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #2 on: October 31, 2004, 10:32:29 AM
I'm not going to click some strange looking link that somebody posts in a forum on their very first time posting. Sorry! Um.. Welcome to the forums I guess! I hope this isn't some kind of spam.

by the way, there are no "tabs" for piano music, that's what sheet music is.. "tab" is for lazy guitar players.

-Paul

www.taborama.com Believe me, there are tabs for keyboard/piano music :D
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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #3 on: October 31, 2004, 03:04:51 PM
Debussy Rox! Debussy Rox! Debussy Rox!

Offline mound

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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #4 on: October 31, 2004, 06:59:01 PM
I just looked at that - pianotabs has sheet music, nothing like guitar "tabs" and www.taborama.com showed listings like:

C#
D#
G

etc. . nothing that looked anything like a "tab" (that is,
"put this finger here" like a tab)


I have no idea how you could create a "tab" for piano!

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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #5 on: October 31, 2004, 07:44:32 PM
Guys, guys, guys. ::)

What are you talking about?

Look in front of you. It is staring you in the face!

The score is tabs for piano! :o

For every other instrument, the usual musical score is “notated music” and it is difficult to decipher because you may read a note as C, but you have no idea how to play it in a flute, sax, violin etc. So you need to actually identify the notes, and you need to be told how to play each note in the specific instrument.

But not on keyboard instruments. The staves area precise map or diagram of the keys of the keyboard.

To use it as such, you need to do three simple things (which you will do in your mind):

1.   Create an imaginary line between the treble and bass staff. This is the middle C line and represents the actual key of middle C.

2.   Turn the score 90 degrees to the right. Now each line and each space correspond to each white key of the keyboard.

3. Remember that the treble staff and the bass staff are separated of an artificial distance to facilitate reading - but actually the distance between them should be only the necessary to place the invisible middle C line between them.

The notes actually show you precisely in which key to place your fingers – exactly like a guitar tablature – except that the lines in the guitar tablature show the strings and the spaces represent nothing. In the piano “tablature” both spaces and lines represent white keys – that is why you need # and b signs to represent the black keys.

Consequences:

1.   Never learn “clefs” and staves separately. Always learn from the very start the “grand staff” – the set of eleven lines (5 treble, 5 bass, one invisible line in between), and relate each line/space to a white key of the keyboard.

2.   Consider the clefs as simple reminders of where the F-key line is and where the G-key line is. If you do that, you will have no trouble reading any clef (including the dreaded C-clefs – where the clef reminds you where the middle C-key is).

3.   By just looking at a score you should be able to see the pattern of piano keys being depressed and intuit the movement in between them – this is the way people can learn to play by simply looking at the score, and it is one of the most importnat prerequisites for truly efficient mental practice.

4.   The score is literally a map of the piano (and any keyboard instrument).

(By the way I have already pointed this out a number of times). :P

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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Re: Can someone help me?
Reply #6 on: October 31, 2004, 09:01:57 PM
Guys, guys, guys. ::)

What are you talking about?

Look in front of you. It is staring you in the face!

The score is tabs for piano! :o


That's what I'm trying to say!  ;D
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