[goodfeel] Re: fingerings
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- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:53 -0700
Great job, Joel. And congrats to Dancing Dots for 20 years!
Sincerely,
Andy.
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[mailto:goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 2:27 PM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] Re: fingerings
Dear Joël
First of all, thank you for sharing your triumphs here. I am delighted
that our technology played such a significant part in your success and in
that of your student. I also recognize that both you and he also put in a
lot of good, old-fashioned hard work in order to apply the technology to
bring such positive results.
We definitely hear your requests for enhancements as just that and not as
complaints. Or maybe I should call them complaints in the best sense of the
term? J
Our ongoing challenge is to continue to improve and simplify our
technology while doing the things we must do to stay in business. Some of
those things such as selling related assistive technology and music supplies
soak up a significant amount of our time and resources and prevent us from
advancing as quickly as we would like. Still, here we are in our twentieth
year at Dancing Dots. God willing, we may have twenty more.
Regards,
Bill
Bill McCann
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
From: goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joël Dazé
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 10:20 AM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] fingerings
Thank you all for the suggestions?
I guess I will need someone to help me with the colours. You know I heard
of an IPhone ap. Called Colour Id. It identifies by name over 16,000,000
colours. I wish I had something like this here. I have synaesthesia and am
working on a project to do some analysis. The colours I am seeking are very
specific.
Is there a way of entering hex data to get the right shade of colour if I
can identify the colour by hex?
Fingerings:
Using lyric will put the fingering between the staves. I?m producing
music for sighted persons not blind people so it?s very important to conform
to the sighted convention. I?ve used the ?other? category to enter figured
bass symbols and roman numeral analysis. My gripe is that the spacing
between each line of text is greater than that which is allotted for the
spacing between fingerings (say of a chord). I know this question is
technical but if I?m going to publish my own music, it?s important for me to
know how to ?tweek? this.
y
Future development of Lime Aloud:
For Bill and Albert who might be reading this email I hope you will make a
priority in future releases of Lime to make the software more navigable when
it comes to ligning up visual elements of a score. I?m referring here to
things such as hairpins, roll symbols, lines etc. Sure you can use the
template but there is little verbal feeback when it comes to editing
position and placement once you have initially plugged-in the indication.
Also, things like staff labels require some sighted assistance to line up
with the staf.
The software is excellent for creating notation and for creating Braille
notation. However, I find the drawback is that when producing music for
sighted people it is necessary to seek sighted assistance. I find this
quite frustrating. The majority of my student base is sighted, and I write
music for sighted people so the music needs to look good. The less I have
to depend on others, the better. And let?s face it, as an independent
contractor, it?s not easy to find someone who will help with this stuff
pro-bonno. This costs money. Like I?m sure many other persons on this list,
I having some residual sight. I used Lime from a sighted person?s
perspective. I?m not a Braille music reader yet.
I think it?s important to consider those perons who have had vision in the
past, who conceptualize music from a sighted person?s perspective but who do
not have enough vision to use magnification like ZoomText or Magic.
I don?t want to sound ungreatful with my comments. I just want the
developers to understand where I, as a consumer, am coming from.
Independence is extremely important for me and I want people to understand
my intentions without or little question when they read my music (bearing in
mind artistic licence).
Lime Aloud and Goodfeel have opened up so many doors to the blind and
visually impaired. Specifically, the software bundle has enabled one of my
students at Ottawa U (who is totally blind and who has Asperger?s syndrome)
to be fully integrated into university level harmony and analysis courses
within the classroom. The people I collaborate with at the Access Center
here at the university ?Lime? all of the theory course materials and the
student is able to complete his assignments just like anyone else.
Everything is done in the score and then printed to PDF for the prof to
correct. He has access to all the course materials and can very easily
emboss subject matter for each lecture at a moments notice. I have been
sick of resorting to order materials from a library and to have to settle
for old editions of braille materials for him. Now with this technology, he
is gaining access and some new found freedom. He?s now working on full
analysis of ternary, rondo and sonata forms. As you all know, this would
have been no small feat to acomplish several years ago. And before this
technology was made available to him, he was required to withdraw from his
first year theory courses. Because of this software, and his determination,
he has surpassed all expectations and has earned himself straight A?s in the
ensuing 3 semesters he has of theory he has taken.
So hats off I say and thank you Dancing Dots. Keep up the good work!
Joël
Joël Dazé
Freelance Musician & Itinerate Music Teacher for the Blind
87 Morton dr.
Kanata, ON
Canada
K2L 1X2
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