I don’t know about anyone else, but when I’m trying to learn a new song, turning pages in a music book SUCKS!! I’ve tried laying them down on my bench, but even that is a pain in the NECK (Literally) because I’m always looking down at the music sheets and after awhile my neck is just down right friggin’ sore!
So, while cleaning up my workshop after finishing a project for Connie, I realized I had a few pieces of scrap left over and came up with a simple solution that allows me to hang 8 sheets of music at eye level so that all I have to do is work my way through each sheet while Thumpin’ to a groove!!
It all pulls apart easily and just slides under my workbench when I don’t need it…
1 - 2” x 2” x 36” (base”
2 - 1/2” x 26” dowel rods
1 - 3/16” x 33-1/2” dowel rod
Took all of about 15 minutes to make, and it works better than any damn music stand that I’ve ever used before!
Hi @Lanny,
Great effort to pin all those pages up.
If you want any transcribed stuff, I have plenty, and most are on 1 page😎
Let me know what you’re into and I will see if I have at least something that will make it easier for you.
Cheers Brian
Hahaha @joergkutter…!! Even though I have an iPad, I have no idea how anyone can follow sheet music on one… Yup, I guess I’m just “Old School”… I suppose where I’m coming from is that when it comes to making music,… using a bit of think on your own “Human Ingenuity” versus modern “Let someone else do the thinking for you”… like using the new modern things, just might be something we all need to get back to.
Once we all loose the basics of thinking and acting on how we can work through situations on our own, we then become robots to whomever invents an “easier” way… Kinda why I love playing bass - we’ve all kinda been on our own in the background…
Don’t get me wrong,… I’m all for progress and all, just only as much as it DOES NOT take away from the knowledge basics of how anything became established… Guess that’s why I (and @PamPurrs) enjoy musical notation over tabs… And why @Korrigan is so damn good at building those custom Cigar Box Bass’s!
Sounds interesting, but on one page?? Damn man, I’m blind in one eye and can hardly see outta the other!! How big is that one page??. I hope you can understand that I’m just “Yankin’ yer chain” here (just an old ‘Yank’ term:joy:)…
I Am curious though… How does that work?? Seven or eight pages of music on one page???
So true, @Lanny! Luckily, every now and then, the kids show us that they know all about that, too, and mix in the new stuff and blow our minds with something really innovative
Really cool @TNKA36 and a great idea! Since I also play acoustic and electric guitar, I typically buy all my sheet music with both treble and bass lines so that I can play either instrument for recording.
I can certainly see a great benefit in having all of the bass lines on one sheet though👍… There have been numerous songs that I have had to use the bass clef on a piano score and with the help of my transcription application manually figure out the actual bass line of a song… Kinda time consuming, but also kinda educational at the same time. One thing’s for certain though, I really don’t trust downloading any free tabbed music…
So mich agree @PamPurrs Pam!! I always purchase original music scores when ever possible. If I can’t, then I will always write my own - kind of a long process since I’m not great at it, but at least I’ll learn something by doing it myself…
They don’t have every song for bass, but there have been many times where I’ve had to purchase piano music and then work with the song and the piano bass clef in order to write and play my own bass line to a song.
Oh, I do have the complete Eagles (Volume 1 & 2) Guitar sheet music. Have had it for years and still pull it out when I’m looking to do a little six string meditation…
When trying to learn my first whole song to play completely through, I came up with a unique one-pager notation. Curious if anyone else does anything like this. Basically, some short-hand.
In my case, the song was the theme to Pink Panther, Henry Mancini version. I found a full set of bass sheet music and bass tab on-line and noticed a pattern:
one section of walking into a note, then playing two more nearby notes. An easy pattern. This mostly repeats at the end.
two middle sections with mostly quarter notes, walking around and too complex for me to really figure out. Everything here entails chord progressions that last two bars each.
So I just have a sheet that lists all the whole song in short hand.
I showed it to my instructor - who I just started with - and he’s all for doing short hand and whatever works for each person, but he can’t make any sense of it.
I’ve been to a few symphonies in my lifetime and have always been amazed at how those performers could quickly turn the page without missing a note. That takes lots of practice.
How big is that one page??
. I hope you can understand that I’m just “Yankin’ yer chain” here (just an old ‘Yank’ term:joy:)…
