Finale NotePad2

May 26, 2007 at 7:31 PM

After two eye surgeries I can't read my own notes so I down loaded Finale NotePad2 and started writing violin music as I remember it from the Cox Family's "Will there be any stars in my Crown."

There are no shoe spoons to make it fit Vista so I am winging it without directions, win32hlp.exe won't load but with the graphic interface I'm getting by. It is really pretty easy.

I guessed it as 3/4 but now I think it is 4/4 with the longer notes and I don't know how to correct it yet. I had to go re-write it which was good practice and then hit play and you find out real quick if your timing is correct.

Just got into a real shootout with teach over my wrist not leading my fingers to the strings up top. I told her it wouldn't work. She is short from the wrist to the elbow and I'm not. I do the mirror thing and the only way to keep in the sweet spot is to allow your fingers to lead, or to my thinking. I stare at the end of the bow and try and make a straight line back and forth and if the fingers go first, well, the fingers go first.

At 70 and multiple horse wrecks my wrists don't function like they use to.

All the bouncing I was doing on the strings was caused by not changing strings and moving my elbow into position fast enough to be perfectly still when I started my bow stroke - bounce bounce bounce. Well, I got that one nailed.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on May 27, 2007 at 5:14 AM

It's great that you're still playing at 70. My oldest student is 68.

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