On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:10:48 +0200, Eyolf Ostrem wrote: > On Thu 03 August 2006 22:35, Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote: >> You'll hardly find a jazz fake book that does not use triangles >> somewhere or always for M7, take a look at Aebersold, Hal Leonard, Sher, >> etc. > > Agreed - but that's jazz.
In the 1950's people copying lead sheets found that using the accumulated nonsense in the way of cryptic symbols and minus signs from pop music publishers made their charts unreadable. The reform was to use no symbols at all except the sharp and flat. It is useful to use slash bass notes, which were invented in the early sixties, but other than that, nothing good has happened since. As I wrote years ago, the best thing to do is to adhere to that strictly limited symbol set, and always to base spelling on quick recognition rather than musical meaning, which is irrelevant in improvisation, where the chords are a given. It doesn't matter what they mean. Your purpose is to give them a different meaning anyway. Academics poison the well when they use the system for analysis, which is a purpose for which it was never intended. Do not follow the innovations suggested by academic articles. It leads to such abominations as the flat13th chord or the B#7, which is better written C7, regardless of a big fat bis being in the score. daveA > like G/D is less clear than G/d, in my opinion. Yes, I've seen that a lot lately, and I use it myself. Speaking for myself, I can't understand why it took so many years for me to see the efficacy of using upper case for chord names and lower case for note names. It's a big improvement. For other readers: G/// G/D /// D/// G/// G/// G/d /// D/// G/// daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html Repertoire and/or licks are ammunition. Tech is a gun. To email go to: http://www.openguitar.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
