#sheet music

[the-vintage-captain]

“Cataract Rag” by Robert Hampton (1914). Original sheet music cover from my personal collection.

[zhouyuanliu]

3 Nocturnes for Guitar, No. 1 (19 Nov 2024 – 25 Dec 2024) (Score, Portrait)

[visions-of-music]

I Used To Call Her Baby (1919)

[yuleology]

The extent that music publishers will go to save space on the page is mind-boggling.  There are some choir arrangements that have multiple repeated sections, where you go back here the first time but then skip to this other part the second time, where one extra printed page would have saved a lot of confusion.

I’ve spent so much time talking through the musical layout of pieces in rehearsals over the years, you would think someone would have started a petition by now.

I know we need to save the trees, but surely there’s a compromise to needing quantum mapping to sing a song from beginning to end.

[bongzillafanboy420]

Hate it when people try to shoehorn songs into 4/4 when they clearly are in 6/8, like you dont need that many triplets just change your signature

Case in point: this riff from Electric Wizard's Funeralopolis

It could be written in 4/4 as above (this is roughly how the rhythm is notated in songsterr) but most notes end up being triplets (the second measure being particularly egregious).

On the other hand you could just write it in 6/8 as such:

And then it's instantly so much easier to read (other than the fact I missed a tie in measure 6)

Planning to do the full tabs sometime soon

[pathbits]

posted:2026-08-13 / taken:2011-10-09 [207]

Osu

[visions-of-music]

Someone Is Losin' Susan / Ben Meroff (1926)

[visions-of-music]

You'll Have To Put Him To Sleep With The Marseillaise, And Wake Him Up With A Oo-La-La (1918)