(And the companion hack for identifying a key signature by number of flats, which is '1 flat = F, >1 Flat, the penultimate flat is the key signature'.) #musictheory #sheetmusic #standardnotation

Pretty good mnemonic for memorizing the order of flat key signatures:

Big
Elephants
Always
Drive
Golf
Carts
Fast

(via https://music-theory-practice.com/key-signatures/order-of-flats.html)

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Here is Frank Converse's :fbc: "Operatic Jig" from his 1865 book "Banjo Without a Master," arranged and transposed to modern gCGBD tuning.

"The Yellow Book," as it is often called to distinguish it from Converse's other 1865 book, was an interesting attempt at _truly_ instructing an aspiring player how to play every note of every song without the benefit of a teacher.

Instead of the usual tutor format of some "rudiments of music" frontmatter followed by straighforward arrangements of tunes, Converse breaks every measure of every tune down in *excruciating* detail, painstakingly describing in plain English what the standard notation means.

You can see what he was going for, but you can also see why he dropped this approach for all of his future publications.

This is a stroke style arrangement, and the `+` and `1` instructions under the staff are right-hand instructions, indicating whether the note is to be played with the thumb ("+") or the index finger ("1").

#banjo #music #standardnotation #musicalnotation

What a pleasant tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqq8jJr5ncQ #banjo #standardnotation

Whoa, somebody actually purchased some printed sheet music vs my #bandcamp #merch page!

Bandcamp has support for digital bonus content (PDFs, etc) but only for albums, not individual tracks... so when I released 'Funeral March' as a standalone track the only way I could also release the sheet music was as physical merch.

Looking ahead to next month's bandcamp Friday, I'm thinking I may try to put together a shorter EP that includes 'Funeral March' and 'Ephriam's Lament', plus a bonus edition that includes a notation+tab PDF.

https://magicians.bandcamp.com/merch/sheet-music-for-funeral-march-1865-notation-and-tab-for-5-string-banjo

#FediverseMusic #sheetmusic #standardnotation #tablature #banjo

Thank you to everyone who bought some music yesterday. It's super-encouraging and makes a person want to record more!

I've just added printed sheet music of yesterday's 'Funeral March' to my bandcamp merch section; your choice of Notation + Tab, or Notation only. Includes a digital download of the track itself.

https://magicians.bandcamp.com/merch/funeral-march-1865-notation-and-tab-for-5-string-banjo

#banjo #tablature #standardnotation #sheetmusic #merch

I wrote a thing for the equinox. I began working on this *last* fall and managed to get it cleaned up for this year. Not sure I'll have it rehearsed enough to record tonight but I can at least share the dots:

https://archive.org/details/equinox-jig

#mastomusic #banjo #classicbanjo #fingerstylebanjo #equinox #autumn #standardnotation