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.