Braille slate

TABLES

Table 1: Basic Signs

Table 3: Accidentals, Key
and Time signatures

Table 4: Rythmic Groups

Table 5: Chords

Table 6: Slurs and Ties

Table 7: Tremolos

Table 8: Fingering

Table 9: Bar lines and repeats

Table 10: Nuances

Table 11: Ornaments

Table 12: Theory

Table 13: Modern Notation

Table 14: General Organization

Table 15: Keyboard Music

Table 16: Vocal Music

Table 17: String Instruments

Table 18: Winds & Percussion

Table 19: Accordion

Other Resources

Contact instructor

Send mail to class

Contractions Lookup

Contractions List

Intro Braille course

Transcribers course

Table 17- String Instruments

A. String Signs

	1st string				5th string
	2nd string				6th string
	3rd string				7th string
	4th string

B. Positions or Frets

	1st position/fret				7th position/fret
	2nd position/fret				8th position/fret
	3rd position/fret				9th position/fret
	4th position/fret				10th position/fret
	5th position/fret				11th position/fret
	6th position/fret				12th position/fret
					Half position
	Glissando or shift to a new position
	Beginning of shift line
	End of shift line

C. Barres

			Grand or full barre
			Half or partial barre
			Vertical bracket barre
			End of barre sign when it is not followed by a fret sign

D. Other Signs

			Natural or harmonic or open string
			Artificial harmonic
			Down bow or up stroke
			Up bow or up stroke
			Left hand pizzicato

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The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
in cooperation with the
North Carolina Central University
and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind

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