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by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 18:44
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

More calligraphic: Lee Morgan
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by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 18:43
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

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by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 18:42
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

Another Trane example
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by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 18:36
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

Here Coltrane's a little childish handwriting featuring an early example of the "TRIAngle" (for a major TRIAd) lady bird trane001.jpg (I read a discussion recently stating the triangle stands for the major triad which can be interpreted as sixth or major seventh chord. So a major seventh c...
by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 18:18
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

@ John Ruggero: The slashes in Monk's lead sheet don't show "something over something", (bass note or polychord) but rhythm shorthand: one slash stands for one quarter beat – same thing as in Fred G. Unn’s Lee Morgan example above. In the first bar of "Monk's Mood" the Fm7 (notat...
by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 17:50
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

@ Fred G. Unn: I have no other context than it was mentioned somewhere in a blog or forum that there were Monk manuscripts on eBay IIRC so I downloaded the images. Until you mentioned it I had not even realized that it was written for a transposing instrument :-D D11 i s Am7 over D (third omitted) o...
by bophead
20 Feb 2022, 04:56
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

If you do not have much space use two colors ;-)

Lead sheet handwritten by Thelonious Monk with melody on staff in blue and chords squeezed in between in black with slashed quarter rhythm for orientation as there is not much alignment at all:
by bophead
19 Feb 2022, 23:21
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

Chord name positioning seems to really be an interesting topic with different possibilities. Dorico seems to default centering for example. But look at this example from Dave Brubecks "Time Out & Time Further Out" (Songbook for 2 albums, 1962) – left-alignment with alignment to acciden...
by bophead
19 Feb 2022, 22:54
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

Here positioning is based on left-aligned Uke grids. Chord names are centered to uke grids. Interestingly two chord names here for either alt tuning or capo use. The Very Thought Of You_02.jpg So different possibilities exist – maybe a question of publisher's standards. By the way: I looks to me lik...
by bophead
19 Feb 2022, 19:28
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Replies: 52
Views: 20053

Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz

Regarding chord symbol positioning: I have taken a look into my (digitized and gathered from American library and university sites) collection of what jazzers call "original sheet music" – hand-engraved vocal/piano scores from the original song puplishers (20ies to 50ies). As far as I have...