Hi Leigh,
You should *never* use only an uppercase "M" and a lowercase "m" to designate major and minor in jazz chord symbols, no matter what chord font you use. Standard practice is to use "MA" and "MI" -- as Chuck Sher does -- or, better (IMO), "MA" and "mi". Some people prefer "maj" (or "Maj") and "m" -- that's fine too. But there isn't enough of an instantaneous visual difference between just an uppercase "M" and a lowercase "m" for accurate sight-reading, no matter what font you're using.
My personal preference is to go with geometric chord symbols instead -- the delta triangle for major, and the minus symbol for minor -- as used in Aebersold and Advance Music publications.
If you don't mind a non-handwritten chord font, though, I highly recommend Bill Duncan's Chord fonts. You can see them here:
http://www.gwmp.com/ChordFontFrameset.htm
Perhaps a wee bit pricey at $40, but it makes creating custom chord symbols in Finale about a million times easier. For me, it was money well spent.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 04 Jan 2005, at 11:23 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I like the Finale Jazz Font a lot except for the fact the chord symbol lower and upper case M's are too similar, causing confusion.
Is there another font available that doesn't have this problem?
The Sher Music font is great but not for sale :-(.
**Leigh
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