[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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?
There are two common ways of doing that in standard notation, either
simply as text annotations:
X:1
T:Swing example 1
M:C
L:1/8
K:C
CC EE GG AA|_BB AA "^even 8ths"GF ED|"^swing feel"CC EE GG AA|_Bc BA GE ^DE|
or as "tuplets":
X:2
T:Swing example 2
R:Swing
M:C
L:1/8
K:C
CC EE GG AA|_BB AA (2GF (2ED|CC EE GG AA|_Bc BA GE ^DE|
The latter is of course semantically incorrect, but most musicians will
understand it.
>
> I know that using R:hornpipe is deprecated in favor of a>b c<d notation...
Not at all. The > and < signs will usually give incorrect playback
output for swing music.
But, if you happen to use BarFly, here's a better stress program than
the hornpipe default:
* 20
Swing
4/4
1/4=120
8
90 1.3
80 0.7
90 1.3
80 0.7
90 1.3
80 0.7
90 1.3
80 0.7
>So I prefer to work with "R:hornpipe % i.e., swing" in the header.
Why not simply "R:swing"?
Phil Taylor wrote:
>
> In principle, you can use an R: field in the tune, so there's nothing to stop
> you putting [R:none] before the straight notes and [R:hornpipe] to restore
> the swing afterwards. I just tried it in BarFly and discovered that it only
> recognises the first R: change, ignoring subsequent ones (I'll have to fix
> that).
Not exactly. I tried toying around with inline R: fields, and it turns
out that an inline R: field simply turns the stress program off.
Frank Nordberg
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