On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's an odd question. Say you have an abc file in 4/4 with
> "R:hornpipe" in the header. Is it possible to notate a pair of straight
> eighth notes in such a file?
>
> I'm transcribing the bass line to a jazz piece for which "R:hornpipe" is
> a suitable, if strange, way of saying "play this one in swing rhythm".
> Most of the piece has a swing feel. But at one point, the bassist plays
> straight eighth notes -- which sounds pretty cool, but how on earth do
> you notate that?
_Notate_, as in write the abc and get the dots printed, there's no issue,
you just do it. And the players will just have to know which pairs are to
be swung and which not (or abuse the "" guitar chord notation yet some
more to put a comment; or just a comment in the abc). I don't know if you
can get the output you'd want out of the player programs, though. I doubt
it, somehow.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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