Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 1. I also disagree with David's statement/opinion that "chords are
> much more common than tremolos". This is certainly true in the pop
> (e.g., music theatre) scores I compose/arrange/engrave, but absolutely
> false in the classical scores I compose/arrange/engrave. Since I do
> roughly equal amounts of work in each "world", I conclude that, in my
> life at least, chords and tremolos are equally common. :-p
>
> 2. I'm sure we could find a way to change the [very useful] tremolo
> syntax into another equally simple form -- i.e., not overloading the
> colon symbol -- and thus be able to implement David's suggestion (or
> equivalent/improvement) for chordmode, if it's useful. For example,
> tremolo notation could be c...@8 or something similar.
>
>> So please, don't change current tremolo easiness.
>
> +1
Actually, I find that a rather encouraging statement. I'd have expected
"don't change current tremolo syntax". c...@8 has some mnemonic value
("play a quarter at eighths", oops sounds like a time). But I don't
like its look. Would you consider c4/8 an adequate syntax?
--
David Kastrup
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