Jeff's Music

For a while now, we have had a goal to work on Jeff's music. First, we would like to re-record and copyright his existing songs. We found a website geared towards independent musicians where Jeff can then sell his music through digital downloads as well as CDs. In addition, we would also like to write out his music.
The surgery on Jeff's wrist kind of set us back on the first half of our goals. So this past week we started on the second half: writing out the sheet music.
We started with my favorite song, Mountain Breeze. Fortunately, we have a digital piano that allows Jeff to record his music. Unfortunately, we can't print it out straight from the piano because Jeff doesn't stay strictly on the beat (which is inevitable, of course). So, while we have the notes that he plays, we still need to figure out how to put it all together. Also, it doesn't separate his left hand from his right because he moves around on the keyboard so often, so it can be difficult to sort out all of the notes.
Jeff has a software program on his laptop for writing sheet music. Because I'm still getting used to how it works, I've decided to first write it out by hand (plus, it's good to have a hard copy back-up). So far I have one page completed by hand and on the computer. It is very satisfying to see it written out. It's slow going, but I'm hoping that I'll get faster the more I do it. I can't wait to have an entire song completed. I'm especially looking forward to the day when I can hear other people play Jeff's songs using the sheet music I helped to write out.
I'm grateful that my background in musical notation and music theory has prepared me to help Jeff. Thanks, Mom, for making me work on notation along with learning songs.