Bach E Major Prelude from the Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin Trans

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Bach E Major Prelude from the Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin Transcribed for Mandolin

Mel Bay has announced the publication of Bach E Major Prelude from the Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin Transcribed for Mandolin. The book and audio include fingerings, tablature and a slow performance of the piece.



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[Joseph Baker]

Does this book include standard notation or is the sheet music only in tablature?

Joseph Baker

[John Hill]

Does this book include standard notation or is the sheet music only in tablature?

Joseph Baker

It's both. You can go to the Mel Bay site to see a sample.

[Will Patton]

Why do they have to transcribe it? It's violin music. Same range and tuning!

[JFDilmando]

Transcription into tab suggests a solution to fingering.... this can be helpful to some folks, but is really a bit crippling in how you might approach a classical piece.... there is much to where you want to play a series of notes, how does it sound on YOUR mandolin, what is the context of the particular passage you are attempting.... do you want fretted notes sounding the same, or fretted and ringing open strings together.... on and on... so many difficulties concerning particular fingering, all very different to different people...

All of this is ignored when seeing TAB... or at least only one solution is offered in the TAB (ususally).

[Perry]

Transcription into tab suggests a solution to fingering.... this can be helpful to some folks, but is really a bit crippling in how you might approach a classical piece.... there is much to where you want to play a series of notes, how does it sound on YOUR mandolin, what is the context of the particular passage you are attempting.... do you want fretted notes sounding the same, or fretted and ringing open strings together.... on and on... so many difficulties concerning particular fingering, all very different to different people...

All of this is ignored when seeing TAB... or at least only one solution is offered in the TAB (ususally).

I like Mike Marshall's approach; in his book he gives you a taste of many of them in TAB. And honestly the first 32 measures of the G minor fugue could keep me busy for months. But if you want to study further you need to get the sheet music (standard notation) which is available for free.

[Scott Tichenor]

Why do they have to transcribe it? It's violin music. Same range and tuning!

Money.

Because there is a market for tablature.

Long ago I got taken to task hard for challenging an author online here that was extolling the wisdom of only reading standard notation, which I agree with. Problem: everything that person had published had tablature included. I questioned why go online hawking only standard notation when everything they'd published included tablature. If you believe in something, take a stand. The response? "Because otherwise it won't sell."

Only Marilynn Mair in the world of mandolin publishing has had the intestinal fortitude to not provide tablature in her publications. She refuses. I can think of no one else. Maybe Mike Marshall has done a few things... not sure about that.

I'm sure this will rankle a few but it's the truth. It's put into tablature because otherwise it won't sell.

We may ultimately see the entire Bach solo violin works put into tablature for mandolin. I won't buy it because I only use standard notation and already have it in print, but people will be buying that tab version should it ever arise, and I'd bet money someone is already working on it.

[DSDarr]

Mike Marshall's choro book is entirely standard notation. Initially I was bummed by that fact, but because I wanted to learn some choros I persevered and forced myself to improve my meager reading skills. I'm still not a great sight reader, but I can read much better now as a result.

David

[Franc Homier Lieu]

Only Marilynn Mair in the world of mandolin publishing has had the intestinal fortitude to not provide tablature in her publications. She refuses. I can think of no one else.

I recently got "MandoBach: 16 selections from the sonatas and partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach, edited for Mandolin by John Cranton". No tab, but it has suggestions for mandolin fingering where it would differ from violin fingering. It is my favourite of the 4 "Bach on mandolin" books (I have Marshall's, Waitze's, and Bancalari's too).