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Re: 8-hole ocarina fingering chart?

Author: bishely  Date:   2008-08-07 14:49 Gnomon wrote: > If you are not used to thinking of tunes in terms of do, re, mi, then you should > learn because it makes it much easier to play by ear. I struggle with do re mi, always have done - I've got a decent ear and tend to pitch only ± a few cents, so I find I get confused with the do re mi scale cause I always hear Julie Andrews singing the famous song and so end up basically just using the notes, but with the do re mi names, so my lowest root note ends up not being do, because I just always equate a C to do and so on. I mean, I *can* do it properly, but it just takes a lot of thinking to get it right! Actually had arguments with both my A-level teacher and University lecturer, because I argued they were trying to make it more complicated than it is. I appreciated it was how they worked, and it was useful to some people, but didn't see why they were so insistent I call a B (for example) 'do' when I could just as easily call it B. Handy system for transposition if you find it confusing, and especially if you have one of those slide-rule things, but I always just found it a bit unnecessary. Not criticising you Gnomon, or saying you're wrong that its a useful thing to learn, just pointing out different things work for different people. I always find the best way to play by ear is to just trust my ear and brain to work things out right, and tell me when my fingers are in the wrong place! This is my first post on this forum, btw - hello everyone! Been looking for a fingering guide for an odd looking ocarina I bought at a car boot last weekend... Sadly, yours doesn't fit. Think I'll just muddle on, I've worked out most of the basics, was just being lazy! EDIT: having seen some of the friction on other posts regarding do re mi vs C D E, I should add that in the context of a generic fingering chart for ocarinas, I agree with Gnomon that do re mi makes FAR more sense, my point is just that I don't find it too useful for playing by ear, that's all Post Edited (2008-08-07 14:53)

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