Finger Breaker

• Jun 4, 2010 - 23:31

I've been working on this Jelly Roll Morton tune (from 1939) for the past few days with RC1. The only serious problem I had is with the unusual business in measures 42, 48 and 62. In the original version Morton played eight figures in 12 beats (or four in six). I originally thought I'd stick with 8 figures in 12 beats (12/4) measure (it looks better), but Musescore seems to choke on this type of measure: You can create it, but you can't copy it. And, or course, this piece has a lot of unusual tuplets, so it gets the "slows" after a 100 measures or so. But with some patience, it all seemed to work out.

Here are the links:
ORMusic.home.comcast.net/FingerBreaker.mp3
ORMusic.home.comcast.net/FingerBreaker.mscz

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