TrumpetMaster - View Single Post - Just started playing again, ADVICE PLEASE!!!

Fudleysmith · 03-20-2007, 06:41 PM

I know your predicament exactly. Our praise and worship (Hispanic Baptist church) had no written music until I started playing trumpet (a year and a half ago). Everything was learned by rote from CD and now, YouTube.

I do just what many have recommended - record the music and transcribe. The benefits are enormous! I use NoteWorthy Composer (shareware) as my notation software and use a keyboard with MIDI cables to input the melody lines from tape to generate lead sheets. We now have a violin and a tenor sax player because we have some written music and my feel for harmony has increased 100fold.

Persevere, the musical and spiritual benefits are immeasureable! Good Luck.

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Fudleysmith Pianissimo User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Niantic, CT Posts: 100	Re: Just started playing again, ADVICE PLEASE!!! I know your predicament exactly. Our praise and worship (Hispanic Baptist church) had no written music until I started playing trumpet (a year and a half ago). Everything was learned by rote from CD and now, YouTube. I do just what many have recommended - record the music and transcribe. The benefits are enormous! I use NoteWorthy Composer (shareware) as my notation software and use a keyboard with MIDI cables to input the melody lines from tape to generate lead sheets. We now have a violin and a tenor sax player because we have some written music and my feel for harmony has increased 100fold. Persevere, the musical and spiritual benefits are immeasureable! Good Luck. __________________ Fudleysmith Conn V1 Rose brass bell GR 65M #1bb Conn V1 Flugel (Satin Silver) GR 65FD Conn 8DRS Lawson S670/P10G 705