Re: Spacing with chord symbols
Posted: 28 Aug 2017, 10:46
Fred, thanks for your input!
I think your system 3 and 4 are both good and valid solutions. On a big band standard or leadsheet (which even usually is in 4/4), I'd prefer system 4 where (nearly all of) the slashes have the same distance. If it has many time sig changes, system 3 might be better to the reader. Though I think that rhythmic difficult situations combined with slash notation should be avoid anyway (maybe use rhythmic notation instead?).
From a Finale point of view there is another difficulty that is not visible in your leadsheet. That is (invisible) notes under the slash notation which were entered for playback reasons. If they have a different rhythm than the slashes, Finale will include them in its spacing algorithm and make very uneven slashes even though "Hidden notes" were excluded included in the document options. Old Finale bug...
I think your system 3 and 4 are both good and valid solutions. On a big band standard or leadsheet (which even usually is in 4/4), I'd prefer system 4 where (nearly all of) the slashes have the same distance. If it has many time sig changes, system 3 might be better to the reader. Though I think that rhythmic difficult situations combined with slash notation should be avoid anyway (maybe use rhythmic notation instead?).
From a Finale point of view there is another difficulty that is not visible in your leadsheet. That is (invisible) notes under the slash notation which were entered for playback reasons. If they have a different rhythm than the slashes, Finale will include them in its spacing algorithm and make very uneven slashes even though "Hidden notes" were excluded included in the document options. Old Finale bug...