NOTATIO

Thank you again John. It all makes sense, now I just have to remember it!

John, Thanks for that. I have forgotten that an actual whole note has no stem. It can get confusing at times. In that tune could you have used two quarter notes with a tie and a dot after the last one? Is it the same thing? Is part of the whole notation symbol system in order to, at times, save ...

Oh okay, I get it, thanks so much for helping me. I play mostly by ear and if I can't hear the tune it's sometimes hard to get the rhythm and timing of the tune just by the notation symbols. I'm getting there though. Thank you struwwelpeter.

Wescott, I know the dots at the thick bar lines are to tell you to repeat from the beginning etc. The two parts of the tune, A & B, are each played twice. What are the two dots on B & D where there is no bar line. They are there with no bar line in those three different places within the tune after ...

Hello, I hope I have posted in the correct place. Over the last several years or so have taught myself to play the English Concertina. I have for the last few months been teaching myself to read music so I can learn more tunes, mostly traditional Irish, Scottish and English tunes. I printed from ...