Bug Question

[KLU 75]

Mark: Is Bug Music Still Written With All Of The Notes Below The Staff?? So That The Player Has To Read Notes With A Million Ledger Lines?

Thanks
Klu

[markichan]

Maybe you should have put this thread under the "Jokes and Humor" category!?!?!?! There are few people (bug palyers) that can actually read that way!

[Sum Junak]

Markichan is right. It's usually easier to just put them on the staff with the chord name on top of it.

[KLU 75]

Thanks For The Info. In Years Past I Got Into Quite A Few "heated" Arguments On How Stupid It Was To Write This Way....as The Instrument Sounded An Octave Higher Than The Music Was Written In. Putting The Chords On The Staff Is A Much Easier Way To Write.

Klu

[mbecar1]

i have never seen bugarija chords (other than "c" and "b") written in legger lines.

[Nathan]

I'm with you mbecar, but I was only taught by ear, and my great aunts maybe yelling the chord (at most) at me...I know how to read music but really only do that to learn leads (and rarely do we even have music for any song)

[jaygriz]

When arranging for tambura kontra (aka bugarija), I usually place the notes between F# (3 ledger lines below the staff) and F# on the first space. Yeah, way down there. My reason for doing this is that that's where I get the best sound out of the MIDI sample of a "Nylon Guitar," which I use for playback in my notation software. I also place a chord symbol above the chord, eg "Am." If I know what flavor of bug the arrangement will be played on, and I'm throwing in an oddball chord like Am7(b5), I'll just throw in a "tab" notation of where that little puppy lives on the fretboard of, say, an E kontra, eg. (5443).

[Nathan]

That sounds like it would work...which notation software do you use?

I tried some freebie program a little while back but it was so slow it didn't make any sense to use it, i could write it by hand faster and give up on the perfect-ness of a computer print out...i would like to over the next however many years of my life get all the music that my family plays on paper (so future generations can have it).

[markichan]

Griz, can't you just change the pitch for that staff to an octave below and then just write the notes on the staff?

[jaygriz]

Yeah marki,

You sure can do that. I'm not sure I agree with Klu that the notes "sound" on the staff, however. I think they belong down low in the "baritone" area. Strike a piano above, and then below middle C. Which side sounds like a bug? I don't find it difficult to read down below the staff, either. I write down there for those reasons.

[saky]

which notation software do you use?

try Sibelius..

[Nathan]

I will look it up, hvala.