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About LinkBacksive been learnin how to read music frm a book......i ws just goin thru sm difficult pieces at the end of the book and tryin to play them.....those pieces had used a certain notation which i ws not able to figure out......it was smtin like two dots similar to ' : ' ......near the final bar line..... can anyone explain wat it means??
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- 06-09-2005, 12:32 PM #1
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- 06-09-2005, 01:05 PM #2
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If you see two dots arranged like : , it means repeat the passage between the previous : and the current : . If you see this only once : , then it means repeat starting from the beginning.
Ofcourse after you repeat, you keep going ahead and dont get stuck in a loop seeing that : all the time.-----------------------------
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- 06-09-2005, 01:21 PM #3
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ok got it...but like if i want to repeat a particular piece for more than one time then do we use the same notation...or smthin diff???
like if i want to repeat a piece twice then do i put two : or there is a diff notation for tht...
- 06-09-2005, 01:25 PM #4
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I am not sure about that but surely there's no other different sign for that. In a lot of newer notations they use 2x or 3x to denote the number of times a passage is repeated. This is marked above the :
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- 06-09-2005, 01:47 PM #5
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ok cool....thanx man....reps
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