Reply to: How many of you can read music?

[NickFitz]

There're not bands, it's one spiral per side!

Not necessarily

[Churchill]

No that's true, I saw it on tv in the 80s on Mr and Mrs or generation game or something.

That is a dire transcription but I can read it fine. Prob cos I'm still working my way through hanon.

I reckon it was a cheat and s/he was reading the serial/catalog number...

[stek]

My thoughts exactly, and I only reached grade 2.

I heard of someone who could tell what was on an LP just by looking at the bands.

There're not bands, it's one spiral per side!

[doodab]

Urban myth - shirley?

No that's true, I saw it on tv in the 80s on Mr and Mrs or generation game or something.

That is a dire transcription but I can read it fine. Prob cos I'm still working my way through hanon.

[stek]

I can read the guitar chords on sheet music when it says G or C etc. Do I qualify for a shot at the speedboat?

Have you German or Russian tabs? They have a 'H' chord! Think it's B or a G# or summert...

[Churchill]

I can read the guitar chords on sheet music when it says G or C etc. Do I qualify for a shot at the speedboat?

Only if you live in a block of flats in the centre of Birmingham.

Churchill - In "Obscure Bulls-Eye reference" mode!

[ChrisPackit]

I can read the guitar chords on sheet music when it says G or C etc. Do I qualify for a shot at the speedboat?

[Churchill]

My thoughts exactly, and I only reached grade 2.

I heard of someone who could tell what was on an LP just by looking at the bands.

Urban myth - shirley?

[OwlHoot]

As a veteran of grade 8 piano, I went for the WTF! option. Partly because I didn't know the tune in question and partly because that's a godawful transcription. A#'s for heaven's sake.

My thoughts exactly, and I only reached grade 2.

I heard of someone who could tell what was on an LP just by looking at the bands.

[Lockhouse]

I played the clarinet in the school orchestra so I could read music when I was a kid. I can't do it now!

[scooterscot]

Only made it to grade 4, even still i operate by the ear and not by sight. I play my enya from time to time to bring calm.

[PRC1964]

25 years ago I might have been able to read it but not now. Surely there's an "app for it"?

[Cliphead]

And the other question is, what, if any, is the algorithm to convert sheet music as above into monosyllabic ASCII, so that it can be uttered?

Moscow Mule provided a brave rendition here, but how faithful is this to the tune and can it be improved upon? Preferably using only ner, neer, nerrr, etc.

There's software that will scan sheet music and convert to a midi file or for importing into a scorewriter for playback.

Quicker and simpler just to play it.

[thunderlizard]

As a veteran of grade 8 piano, I went for the WTF! option. Partly because I didn't know the tune in question and partly because that's a godawful transcription. A#'s for heaven's sake.

[TimberWolf]

And the other question is, what, if any, is the algorithm to convert sheet music as above into monosyllabic ASCII, so that it can be uttered?

Moscow Mule provided a brave rendition here, but how faithful is this to the tune and can it be improved upon? Preferably using only ner, neer, nerrr, etc.