We hope that this not-so-short article gives you all you'll need to test the GOODFEEL suite of accessible music notation software. Please let us at Dancing Dots know as soon as possible that all is well or how we can help you get started. Score information can be entered manually into Lime using the mouse, PC keyboard, a musical keyboard, or any combination of all three. Do you or your visually impaired students need to independently produce high quality sound recordings How to compare music on screen to original hardcopy to ensure anaccurate transcription before passing printed music to GOODFEEL to make abraille score.

New option to use the talking score feature with non-JAWS screen readers such as NVDA and even Narrator. No matter what technical problems I have had the people at Dancing Dots have always helped me to overcome them. My aim in life is to become a music teacher and I am sure I will be able to achieve this with this wonderful software." hear our desktop. Using this technology, we have trained both blind and sighted customers throughout the United States and in other countries to:the option to transcribe the text of titles, tempo markings, lyrics and rehearsal markers to contracted or uncontracted braille text. Version 4 of GOODFEEL is the first to include provisional support for UEB (Unified English Braille). Note: Delivery times are a little slower than we would like for our UK customers and this is due to additional customs regulations on imports from the EU via the UK. This is beyond our control & we thank you for your patience. I want to play in our school band, but I have to enlarge the sheet music so much that it falls off the music stand. After fixing problems in SharpEye, close your Lime file, save to MusicXML or NIFF once again, and import results into Lime (File menu | Import | ...)

I simply would not have been able to survive professionally over the last ten years either as a concert performer (harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano) or as Professor of Harpsichord and Early Music Performance Practice at Trinity College of Music, London, but for my discovery of GOODFEEL®.

Transcribing with GOODFEEL

If you or your student needs magnification to see standard print music notation, The lime lighter from dancing Dots may be what you've been looking for.

Think of the Lime music notation editor as a kind of word processor for music notation. Once the notes and related information of a score have been entered into Lime, you simply choose "Launch GOODFEEL" from Lime's File menu to submit your score to GOODFEEL for automatic transcription. GOODFEEL plays the role of the braille music transcriber. Rui Vilarinho from Portugal: multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, trainer, and founder of the RvÁudioAcessível project. ( www.rvaudioacessivel.com) Feel free to comment on the list about the usefulness of this documentation or to suggest other resources that you would find helpful.Our sixth-grade saxophonist struggled to keep up with the group in the beginning of the last academic year. But once we got the Lime Lighter into her hands, we began to see huge improvements." M.G. Texas MB of hard disk space for Lime Aloud's program files. More hard drive space will be needed for the music files that you create;. However, Lime files are typically less than 100 KB each. Lime is a kind of word processor for music notation. Instead of entering letters, words, and sentences, you enter notes, measures and musical phrases. The score appears on the screen on a musical staff in Lime's main window. Since Lime is integrated with GOODFEEL, the equivalent braille music for the current measure also appears in a separate braille window. Braille music. Consult our reference guide that describes a situation and suggests specific products and resources to find the solutions that will work best for you.

A trainer from Dancing Dots can travel to your school, office or home and train you in any of the following:

GOODFEEL is a suite of software that automates transcription of printed scores into accessible score formats including braille music, verbal and audible musical cues. It provides visually impaired users with an accessible environment for both reading and writing print scores which is equally usable by the sighted user. Presentation of the score in print/magnified print notation, braille, spoken word and musical cues is simultaneous and scrolls in sync. All users can choose their preferred presentation mode or modes while still being able to work with others who may prefer different presentation modes. In the United States, Dancing Dots is the "Sole Source" for braille music courses by Richard Taesch. Use Lime Aloud to learn new pieces. Play selected sections of any Lime notation file at a practice tempo to facilitate memorization. You can ask Lime Aloud to play a single note, all notes in a particular part, or even all notes in all parts at any given point in the piece. make scanning errors. At that point, we need the help of a sighted assistant since we blind musicians cannot see the original print score to determine how to correct the errors. Of course, if we could do that, we probably would not be scanning the music in the first place! That being said, blind users of SharpEye can sometimes successfully scanned and learned previously unfamiliar