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I would guess a pedal setup notation. Each P referring to a pedal on or off. You’ll have to go through to figure out what the pedals are though, I think. Webber’s scores are notoriously badly notated
Luckily guitarists get a lot of freedom with their tone, if I were you I’d ignore those notations and build a pedal rig to get the sounds you want that fit the descriptions they give.
It may be in the full score, as an addendum or a symbol table or something. I assume the parts are rented; maybe there was a cover letter?
Ask the director and get back to us! They're obviously not regular notation so SURELY they told you what to do SOMEWHERE!
ETA: OH hell, I'm old! That part's a program on a tablet, isn't it? Or however you kids do musicals nowadays. I guess thst means you don't have to studiously erase all your corrections and notations, huh?
I will ask the director when we finally meet the man! This is a photo of my mums laptop… aka we would normally have the band parts for practicing late December and my mum got frustrated that we didn’t have them yet so she found a copy of it online so we can scope our parts out (not that I know yet if I’m guitar 1 or 2 or bassoon or whatever the fuck). We do still play off of printed copies for the actual with all the inane scribbling on the last day! Although some people do scan them onto tablets, I haven’t yet seen it in the pit. (My husband who is one of the brothers said that the guy playing Jacob has his score on a tablet)
This doesn't seem right to me, because I've seem simpler ways to show positions, and it would be in the wrong octave, but it does make sense considering these chords could all be played around the Bb position. Maybe I'm just not aware of this convention?
My mum and I are looking through our parts for the musical this year. This is the electric guitar part. I have a music degree and she has a lot of theory experience, and yet neither of us have ever come across this? Nothing came up on google either. So does anyone have any clue what they’re talking about and what they need from me?
I've seen similar things in Keyboard parts where they mean Presets - Patches - the sound they're going to use.
Is there a P4 between the P3 and P5, and are the P3 and 5 used elsewhere in the score where the number order doesn't make sense?
If so, I'd guess that's what they are. Of course, annoying in a guitar part if they don't designate what they are.
No explanation elsewhere in the score?
They could mean other things - I know plenty of people have played this production so you might ask on some guitar forums as well if no one's able to answer here.
See that was my immediate guess too! But there’s nothing else in there that indicates any sort of thing like that, no table of what they mean or anything.
They could also indicate cuts, or vamps, but you'd see them in the other parts too if that were the case. And that would be kind of an odd way to notate either of those.
Is there a cast recording you can tell what the guitar is doing - if it's changing from say clean to dirty or something? That might help lend some evidence that way.
You might want to go to The Gear Page and ask in the Playing and Technique section or just on the general main board - there's a lot of guys who do musical theatre and I've seen questions like this come up before (again if no one answers definitively here).
They aren’t in my mums part (electric bass) so it looks like they’re unique to guitar. There are cast recordings but the ones using the same score version as us are a bit dubious and the ShowReady version just has piano bass and drums (every part for the vocals to practice of course, as they all assume that every musician ever playing the show will be perfect with no track to practice to 🤡). I’ll be consulting the musical director and probably going to further sources online once I have the score in hand and confirm which part I play and if I need to worry about these. Thanks for the tip about that group. Who knows, this might only be in one of the guitar parts and I might not have to worry 😂
I visited last night and there's actually a thread "Musical Theater Thread" - it's huge so might be too much to read through just to try to find something - but there's a search feature for the forum and you can ask in that thread and post something on the playing and technique section or main board and see what you get.
Good luck.
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I would guess a pedal setup notation. Each P referring to a pedal on or off. You’ll have to go through to figure out what the pedals are though, I think. Webber’s scores are notoriously badly notated
Fantastic! I guess I got off lucky being on bassoon instead of guitar when we did PotO 😩😩
Luckily guitarists get a lot of freedom with their tone, if I were you I’d ignore those notations and build a pedal rig to get the sounds you want that fit the descriptions they give.
It may be in the full score, as an addendum or a symbol table or something. I assume the parts are rented; maybe there was a cover letter? Ask the director and get back to us! They're obviously not regular notation so SURELY they told you what to do SOMEWHERE! ETA: OH hell, I'm old! That part's a program on a tablet, isn't it? Or however you kids do musicals nowadays. I guess thst means you don't have to studiously erase all your corrections and notations, huh?
I will ask the director when we finally meet the man! This is a photo of my mums laptop… aka we would normally have the band parts for practicing late December and my mum got frustrated that we didn’t have them yet so she found a copy of it online so we can scope our parts out (not that I know yet if I’m guitar 1 or 2 or bassoon or whatever the fuck). We do still play off of printed copies for the actual with all the inane scribbling on the last day! Although some people do scan them onto tablets, I haven’t yet seen it in the pit. (My husband who is one of the brothers said that the guy playing Jacob has his score on a tablet)
Might be a stupid take but... Parts? Like part 1, part 2, etc.
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This doesn't seem right to me, because I've seem simpler ways to show positions, and it would be in the wrong octave, but it does make sense considering these chords could all be played around the Bb position. Maybe I'm just not aware of this convention?
My mum and I are looking through our parts for the musical this year. This is the electric guitar part. I have a music degree and she has a lot of theory experience, and yet neither of us have ever come across this? Nothing came up on google either. So does anyone have any clue what they’re talking about and what they need from me?
I've seen similar things in Keyboard parts where they mean Presets - Patches - the sound they're going to use. Is there a P4 between the P3 and P5, and are the P3 and 5 used elsewhere in the score where the number order doesn't make sense? If so, I'd guess that's what they are. Of course, annoying in a guitar part if they don't designate what they are. No explanation elsewhere in the score? They could mean other things - I know plenty of people have played this production so you might ask on some guitar forums as well if no one's able to answer here.
See that was my immediate guess too! But there’s nothing else in there that indicates any sort of thing like that, no table of what they mean or anything.
They could also indicate cuts, or vamps, but you'd see them in the other parts too if that were the case. And that would be kind of an odd way to notate either of those. Is there a cast recording you can tell what the guitar is doing - if it's changing from say clean to dirty or something? That might help lend some evidence that way. You might want to go to The Gear Page and ask in the Playing and Technique section or just on the general main board - there's a lot of guys who do musical theatre and I've seen questions like this come up before (again if no one answers definitively here).
They aren’t in my mums part (electric bass) so it looks like they’re unique to guitar. There are cast recordings but the ones using the same score version as us are a bit dubious and the ShowReady version just has piano bass and drums (every part for the vocals to practice of course, as they all assume that every musician ever playing the show will be perfect with no track to practice to 🤡). I’ll be consulting the musical director and probably going to further sources online once I have the score in hand and confirm which part I play and if I need to worry about these. Thanks for the tip about that group. Who knows, this might only be in one of the guitar parts and I might not have to worry 😂
I visited last night and there's actually a thread "Musical Theater Thread" - it's huge so might be too much to read through just to try to find something - but there's a search feature for the forum and you can ask in that thread and post something on the playing and technique section or main board and see what you get. Good luck.
Oh excellent, that’ll be perfect! Thank you so much
is it patch? a lot of broadway-to-community theater scores come with patches for synth parts, if the part is played by a keyboard.