Yeah, that's what I liked, too. It was even better having someone in the group who couldn't read music and having to write out a count sheet with the right and left hands highlighted, lol. But no one could tell on the other side of the stand.
Change ringing starts with a scale, and then the notes switch according to a pre-established pattern. For the simplest one, you have 4 people play a scale, then you trade one bell with each person next to you and play up the line again, over and over until you get your bells back. But the professionals can make it sound like that without any music in front of them just by counting or using a chart of numbers. It's crazy!
That part was tough.
So was trading bells on the cheating version without hitting anyone else's bells, lol.
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Date: 2005-03-17 06:46 am (UTC)Change ringing starts with a scale, and then the notes switch according to a pre-established pattern. For the simplest one, you have 4 people play a scale, then you trade one bell with each person next to you and play up the line again, over and over until you get your bells back. But the professionals can make it sound like that without any music in front of them just by counting or using a chart of numbers. It's crazy!
That part was tough.
So was trading bells on the cheating version without hitting anyone else's bells, lol.
Anyway, here's an intro which is sorta cool:
http://www.nagcr.org/pamphlet.html