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TABLES
  • Table 1: Basic Signs
  • Table 2: Clefs
  • 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
  • Main BRL page
  • Contractions Lookup
  • Contractions List
  • Intro Braille course
  • Transcribers course

  • Table 17- String Instruments

    A. String Signs

    %a 1st string %k 5th string
    %b 2nd string %2 6th string
    %l 3rd string %' 7th string
    %1 4th string

    B. Positions or Frets

    >> 1st position/fret ,> 3 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
    >0 6th position/fret >- 12th position/fret
    >> / Half position
    'a Glissando or shift to a new position
    'a ' Beginning of shift line
    '@ a 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

    k Natural or harmonic or open string
    *l Artificial harmonic
    <b Down bow or up stroke
    <' Up bow or up stroke
    _> Left hand pizzicato


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