A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Darcy James Argue / 05.3.18 / 05:26 PM wrote:
No. Chris and Hiro are, with due respect, not adhering to standard jazz practice here.
Ha-ha, Let me ask you this.
A 32 bar standard jazz form with two bars of pickup measures, Do you call this a 34 bar form?
I still call it 32 bar form.
I call it a 32 bar form with a 2-bar introduction. Why not be specific?
We definitely travel in different circles -- if I called out "Start at measure 7" everybody I've ever worked with would start counting from the first printed measure and count until they got to the 7th printed measure. I would have to say "Start at the 7th measure after the introduction" to get to where it seems your musicians would naturally start when you ask them to start at measure 7.
It really doesn't matter one iota how things are done, as long as everybody concerned understands them.
My main concern would be for publishing arrangements where the numbering system isn't traditional. I've been involved in too many rehearsals where such is the case and it is so frustrating and time-wasting. I've played from published concert band arrangements where the score had rehearsal letters and the parts had rehearsal numbers which weren't measure numbers. I've also played from published music where only half of the parts had measure numbers (actual counting numbers) and the other half didn't have anything.
So these days all my music either has rehearsal letters (if the phrases are all short enough and varied enough for each phrase to get a letter and it's easy to say "the 4th measure of D") or the music gets measure numbers, starting from the first full measure on the page, so there can be no confusion.
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