Okay, NOW I'm panicking
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figmoToday the rabbi arrived in San Jose. She left me a packet of songs she'd like me to do tomorrow night.
It's 1/4" thick.
I'm not going out tonight in hopes of possibly making it through some of these. I'm about ready to crash and I'm terrified. I can sort of sight-read the ones written in simpler keys (two flats/sharps or less), but when I get something in E flat, AIEEE! As if that isn't enough, these prayer tunes often have complex rhythms or time signature changes every couple of measure.
To top things off, some of these are not in "my key" (as in "it hurts my throat or sounds screechy when I sing them"), but because of the way I am, I suck at transposing while sight reading them. I'm cursed with perfect pitch, which means if I see a C, I "have" to sing a C.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow I'd just spend the day entering them into my computer and trying them in different keys. Unfortunately, I don't have that option.
It's 1/4" thick.
I'm not going out tonight in hopes of possibly making it through some of these. I'm about ready to crash and I'm terrified. I can sort of sight-read the ones written in simpler keys (two flats/sharps or less), but when I get something in E flat, AIEEE! As if that isn't enough, these prayer tunes often have complex rhythms or time signature changes every couple of measure.
To top things off, some of these are not in "my key" (as in "it hurts my throat or sounds screechy when I sing them"), but because of the way I am, I suck at transposing while sight reading them. I'm cursed with perfect pitch, which means if I see a C, I "have" to sing a C.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow I'd just spend the day entering them into my computer and trying them in different keys. Unfortunately, I don't have that option.
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Date: 2003-10-05 09:56 am (UTC)Get out the guitar, try to play the chords, and transpose from there, that will probably help a lot for comprehending where your voice is supposed to go.
B'hatzlacha!
LMG
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Date: 2003-10-05 03:03 pm (UTC)I just wish I had time to do this right now, but I'm working till 5pm, then I have to be at the service by 7:30pm. Eeep.
Last night when I couldn't sleep I figured out how to scan in this music -- sort of. It still needs editing, but the scanning takes out a lot of the work.
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Date: 2003-10-07 07:02 pm (UTC)