So for whoever doesn't know, I'm playing drums. I have been playing them for, uh, what, almost a year now? Most of it in jazzband. No, I didn't die, surprisingly, I was able to keep up just fine, however, a couple weeks ago my teacher approached me and asked me if I want to do marching band. I told her I wasn't planning on it, though it wasn't out of the realm of possibility, and after a few, things have been sorted out I signed up for it.
I should explain the way I learned music. I'm taking private lessons to learn drums, so my drum instructor helped me with it. The lessons are a week apart, though, so that won't work for marching band. To put it into a perspective, I have to know about uh, what, 13 things by July 16th? Yeah, something like that. It's a lot, and it's fine. I'm willing to learn it, but, here's the main problem.
I played French horn earlier, so I know how to read basic braille music, but that was in an actual school for the blind. Here, in US, we don't even know where to start looking for where to get a software of some sort to get braille music, and even if we did, how would I know what it means? So why can't I ask the school I've been in earlier? Yeah, you do that. Keep in mind, that school's in Ukraine, and you're in USA. I'm posting here in hopes that someone might know where to start digging. The school I'm currently in says that they will quote Look for it quote, but that's what they all say, and frankly, I don't wana take a risk with something like this. My TVI found a braille music manual so she could transcribe it by hand, but after looking at it for a while she said that there were multiple styles of music in there, and that the manual is 500 pages long. So yea! Any tips? I'm open to anything.
Also, something I thought about, they did promise to get me recordings for the drum set part, but again, that's what they all say. Out of the songs that we've played this year, which is around 5 for me, I got a recording for... wait for it, wait for it, 1 song! Also, the reason why I played only 5 songs is because there are 3 drummers in band, including me, so we kind of had to split the pieces. So yeah, like I said, tips, links, anything would be welcomed at this point.
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