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All right, I have sheet music which looks like this, more or less:



I have no clue what this means. Please help. Neither of my parents had any idea what it meant, and I can't find any answers on the interweb. The part that this is supposed to be transcribing, by the way, is The Last Polka, by Ben Folds Five. I dunno if I'm allowed to attach clips of songs, or whatever, but if you have to hear it or something, I have an eight second clip of the section. Help is appreciated.

Hmm, could you post the clip for me. I have an idea but don't want to sound like an idiot if it somehow turns out to be wrong.

'kay. The clip has more than this sheet music does, but I didn't feel like copying the five or six bars of this that would include the whole eight seconds. It was being crazy slow when I tried to attach it, so I just uploaded it to Rapidshare.

http://rapidshare.de/files/2960603/897_ ... 1.wav.html

EDIT: Direct link: http://dl2.rapidshare.de/files/2960603/ ... olka01.wav

So, you're trying to find the notes?

I'm trying to figure out what the heck the black bars represent.

Aren't they slurs?

Thats an interval....I think.

that's a slide. down from the top note through to the bottom.

boy I was off.

Okay, stupid question #2: what the heck is a slide?

Thank you for answering, everybody (and alexfish).

happeningfish wrote:that's a slide. down from the top note through to the bottom.

Oh so I was right. I just called it a slur, as in what my music teacher used to call it, because we played wind instruments.

Waiting to Exist wrote:Okay, stupid question #2: what the heck is a slide?

Thank you for answering, everybody (and alexfish).

On a guitar, when you are playing and you don't lift your finger off the string to switch to a new note. It's called a slide, you slide down. Basically you switch notes, without stopping inbetween.

Pick a note, then slide your finger down to another note.


ex: A#/C

Aww, it's been so long since I've heard the term "slur".

I miss playing an instrument.

i like doing slides on the clarinet

I like playing slides on the ol'jug.

slides on violin make a beautiful voicelike sound

I think the technical term is a glissando isn't it?

yes yes that's it. it hurts your fingers on piano if you don't do it right, but it sounds fucking awesome when you do a whole bunch of them in succession.

It always hurts my fingers