I know that sheet music doesn't really have a place in a true ITM session. That said, we had great fun @ O'Malley's in Helsinki tonight after we found out how to utilize the thesession tune database in a real session.
Vesa, the flute player, suggested we should play the Jolly Tinker, but soon we realized nobody could recall all the parts. He then took out his 3g mobile phone and surfed to the thesession website to find the tune. I did the same with my iPhone and soon we were flyin' it, reading (I know, it's wrong!) the dots from the mobile screen.
That tells me that the problem is not in remembering a tune, but recalling it - always more difficult, for some reason. If this is a recurring problem I see no good reason why a player can't keep a little aide memoire handy, listing just the tune names and the first couple of bars of each tune. That's all you need if you really know the tune. I can see myself exploring this route as I get older
I actually ended up singing last night with lyrics aid from cell phone internet but if anyone asks, then yes I can read txt messages and sing at the same time.
I have to admit that I have occasionally used my iPhone to look up how a tune starts. using thesession... <;hangs head in shame>... Sorry, Llig...
But it's only very rarely, and only when someone asks if I know a tune that I can't recall... And only if *nobody* can recall it, and we're all being driven crazy trying to recall how it starts...
Interestingly, I can usually recall a tune from the depths without the technological aid - but it will sometimes take me a minute or two. That['s such a weird phenomenon, but so is most of how the human memory works...
Yeah, reading it from the screen is just like sheet music at a session, but reminding yourself out how 'such and such' starts and then ripping it out is kinda cool, especially the tech angle. Some people keep little notebooks of the first few notes. Shave and a haircut, that's my two bits.
Thesession as real life session aid
Thesession as real life session aid
I know that sheet music doesn't really have a place in a true ITM session. That said, we had great fun @ O'Malley's in Helsinki tonight after we found out how to utilize the thesession tune database in a real session.
Vesa, the flute player, suggested we should play the Jolly Tinker, but soon we realized nobody could recall all the parts. He then took out his 3g mobile phone and surfed to the thesession website to find the tune. I did the same with my iPhone and soon we were flyin' it, reading (I know, it's wrong!) the dots from the mobile screen.
Dunno if anybody else here has done the same?
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by matti
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
That tells me that the problem is not in remembering a tune, but recalling it - always more difficult, for some reason. If this is a recurring problem I see no good reason why a player can't keep a little aide memoire handy, listing just the tune names and the first couple of bars of each tune. That's all you need if you really know the tune. I can see myself exploring this route as I get older
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
I actually ended up singing last night with lyrics aid from cell phone internet but if anyone asks, then yes I can read txt messages and sing at the same time.
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by martin t
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
How does your singing compare with your box playing?
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by deeor
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
how useful
(for the computer age .... )
And wouldn't this music be so much better if those who created it had such vital tools?
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
llig, you seem to have a nervous tic..
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by Michael Eskin
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Every website needs a curmudgeon .
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by leoj
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Up him Spot, he's not my dog!
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by mcknowall
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
I have to admit that I have occasionally used my iPhone to look up how a tune starts. using thesession... <;hangs head in shame>... Sorry, Llig...
But it's only very rarely, and only when someone asks if I know a tune that I can't recall... And only if *nobody* can recall it, and we're all being driven crazy trying to recall how it starts...
Interestingly, I can usually recall a tune from the depths without the technological aid - but it will sometimes take me a minute or two. That['s such a weird phenomenon, but so is most of how the human memory works...
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by Reverend
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Wait a few years - people will have memory implants and read
dots without anyone suspecting
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by Hup
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Jst a bitv notepapr w a bitva staf scrawld on it, 1st fu notes, dz th trik, no nd 4 ifnz etc.
i no i hv
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by cyber-bullying is a criminal offence
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Um, yes. I shouldn't be surprised.
# Posted on February 23rd 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Thesession as real life session aid
Yeah, reading it from the screen is just like sheet music at a session, but reminding yourself out how 'such and such' starts and then ripping it out is kinda cool, especially the tech angle. Some people keep little notebooks of the first few notes. Shave and a haircut, that's my two bits.
# Posted on February 24th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler