Adagio For Strings
This popular song by Samuel Barber was not only remade by the string quartet Bond, but also was made a theme song for the movie 'Platoon". For the MIDI, visit this site: www.hamienet.com/midi5818.html . If you notate it, you can see they use a double flat. wat do you guys fink of the song? I reckon the classical version is much better than Bond's remake. I guess in order to appreciate Bond's version, you pretty much have 2 listen 2 the REAL adagio for strings. immediately listening to bond's version can lead to, well ... dissapointment

Doesn't a double-flatted note mean play the note one whole step instead of half to the left? eg. bbB = A Is that right?

I was wondeering too!

I -*test*-('")ed it on Kismet. There were a few double flatted B's, and when I tried B flat, it sounded off. So I tried A natural, and it sounded correct!

yeah, double flat is just 2 semitones down instead of one!

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in actual fact, B double flat IS NOT the same as natural A. double flats are VERY precise pitches that can only be played by the skinniest fingers. its simply between B flat and A. if you have large fingers, then resorting to two semitones is the way to go, otherwise give it a go. you can see there is a difference between B double flat and A natural - a good ear would hear it :)

i wou ld have explained it the same way, luky for piano players, skinny or fat fingers, you just play 2 semitones backwards. Kismet is a lovely peice (i kinda went off topic, soz)

At first when I played violin, I thought you could play notes such as B# and E# too (it's not like piano where the notes are fixed in place). LoL

everything isnt always as it seems... its all this weird tonal stuff my teacher is always telling me how when you play 'double stops' you have to tune the notes to each other and the note you play would sound different when played with a different note.... ARGH its all so hard!!

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it sure is :D i wonder if there's double sharps as well..

there are!!! the sign for it is laike an x

yep, ppls always think its gonna look like ## but its acually a 'x' but that isnt sumthin used commonly, i hardly come across one of those

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i've seen one of them. i was like "wattttttt? am i meant to do something here?"

yeah... it used to confuse me too