On Aug 22, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 22 Aug 2004, at 10:26 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Have you tried Type Into Score, simply typing :75 WITHOUT typing a root (where 75 is the slot number of the suffix?) I use this for NC, among other things.
Oh, cool. I didn't know you could do that. Has that always been the case? IIRC, when Type Into Score was first introduced, you couldn't type just a chord suffix.
Hmm, I remember doing it from when Type Into Score for chords was first introduced (I went gaga nuts over this feature!) but my memory may be faulty.
I know Crystal didn't ask, but I would question the need to put a repeat sign for a chord symbol only.
Oh, I agree, but her client specifically asked for it. I've had lots of clients specifically request it, too, and it can be hard to persuade them it's not necessary. It's one of those bad copying conventions used in the Real Book that people pick up on...
Here's another weird convention that I just learned about, apparently directly descended from the original Real Book practices. You know that it is common for libraries to omit the first article in a title for cataloguing purposes, like "A Foggy Day" is listed under F, not A. But in many jazz performance libraries, like the one at McGill, the titles are listed WITH the leading article, apparently because the Real Book's alphabetical organisation of songs was this way! What a terrible idea! According to the new performance materials librarian at McGill, this is quite common in jazz libraries.
Christopher
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