Lyra★Aster

Suzuran's music blog. Ask questions about music, or find songs and sheets. I focus on piano and violin but can answer most theory questions. If you need help transposing/rearranging go ahead and ask. I'm a music teacher, so I'm fairly used to that....

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Level: Late Beginner Song: The Star Spangled Banner Composer: John Stafford Smith, Francis Scott Key  Instrument: Violin Pages/Format: 1/Portrait 

The rhythm is a bit off at parts since there are no eighth notes/doted notes. This was done mostly so a beginning player could have a chance at the song. If you’re already familiar/comfortable with the rhythm then just use the notes as a guide. As a whole it’s not terribly off. It’s primarily been transposed, the C natural is what gets forgotten the most I’ve noticed. Hopefully you’re comfortable with playing on the G string before you get started. It’s a .png on a transparent background--should make editing for printing on colored paper easy.

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Level: Primer Song: O Christmas Tree /  O Tannenbaum Composer: Melchior Franck, Ernst Anschütz (modern lyrics) Instrument: Piano Pages/Format: 1/Landscape

The dynamics are extra large to make them harder to miss! The bottom half of the page is intentionally left blank, either to edit a finger chart in or just draw a picture. This was written to line up with Faber & Faber’s primer book (even with the presence of eighth notes). There’s no need to move hands from the starting position (C 5-finger scale), leaving it easy for beginners. It should be on a transparent background, to make it easier to print it to colored paper.

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See here for the sheet music transcription

Attempted replication of the Radical Dreamers music box

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With the help of wokefromdreaming, we were able to transcribe Radical Dreamers onto a Kikkerland music sheet. So if you ever want to make your own Radical Dreamers music box, you can use this kit and this transcription! Of course if you’re already music savvy, feel free to futz with this as you please. Video of the sheet being played will be posted momentarily.

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Current Goals

This blog is over a year old and I’ve done nothing. Instead of jumping in with big projects I’m gonna just do what I think I can do. Here’s a post, to me, to remind me what I wanna get done. Can’t say everything will get done but this is the minimum stuff I wanna do before I even think about promo'ing this blog.

Reblog music stuff I was involved in

Update/post sheets made for lessons (gl finding them) (goodenough!)

READY!! (you’ve only redone this a billion times)

Instrumental cover(s) (maybe keep procrastinating)

Aimo (sheets & recording, it is done. share it already)

The major goal here is to have a something for each of the categories on the side. Self, can you do it?