Hi guys, Chuck, would you like to be my sales rep??? hehehe You are so kind to talk about my stuff the way you do.
I had a thought about about a new articulations font: >From what I am hearing, there are not a lot of jazz articulations needed, so I am thinking about an all-inclusive "Articulations" font that contains everything (both jazz and legit). There seems to be plenty of slots in the font to accommodate them all. I don't know about you all, but I'm still not satisfied with any of the out-of-the-box articulations in the fonts that MM supplies. Maybe I could put together an articulations font that all of us agree with for everything and be done with it. For what it's worth, I'm not really interested in doing the work unless it can be "the definitive" font for articulations, so I guess I'm asking for input from anyone here. I trust you guys way more than those who influence MM's "artistic" decisions, and I admit that I don't know everything...especially with jazz articulations. As far as the jazz chords font, could someone send me a scanned page of anything (containing lots of chords, of course) from Sher Music Co's "The Standards Real Book"? If it's not for sale, I'm not really in a position to get it. Also, if anyone has anything else that they feel particularly strongly about, I'd love to see them too. All the best! I'm getting excited about this... Bill Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206-780-2875 > From: Chuck Israels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:26:36 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Jazz version of ChordSuf? > > > On Oct 23, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> Yeah, I too bought the Ash Font, but have rarely used it. I do use >> the jazz font, but basically only to use the articulations in it, >> as it does have scoops and what not. I also bought the swing font >> (www.jazzfont.com), from the author of the Jazz Font. Though, I >> have found that I don't care for the look of it anymore. >> >> If Bill could come up with articulations, then I might buy his >> Productivity product. Looking at the examples, he has just about >> everything else one would want in his library except for >> articulations and jazz type things........ > > Eric, > > There are many things in Bill's productivity package that are > "overkill" for my needs, but every time I use one of the things that > I do need, I wonder how I'd have done without it. There are some > really good smart shapes and special staff styles, as well as > specialized harp notation, which I rarely need, but which I imagine > would be terrific for anyone who did a lot of harp writing. Some > other things are specially good for recording circumstances, where > there can be no doubt about what's on the page, and there's little > tolerance for error. Those things may be overly bold for more normal > circumstances, but they're still worth a look. There's a lot of good > stuff there. > > Chuck > > > >> >> And on the Bill Rowen thing, I'm sure if you gave examples of how >> he wrote things, someone around here probably has the know how to >> make a font out of it............. >> >> Chuck Israels wrote: >> >>> Hi Bill et al, >>> >>> Perhaps Chris, Darcy, Greg Hamilton, and some others can help to >>> come up with a set of a few jazz articulations that most of us >>> need. I use few of them; a fall-off, a scoop up to pitch, and one >>> that indicates a drop and rise in pitch. Something for a brass >>> shake would also be useful to many. That's all I'd need, but >>> there are undoubtedly others who have different requirements. I >>> am using shapes from the Jazz Font articulations for these at the >>> moment, and it is true that they seem overly thick and bold for >>> the rest of the Maestro Font that I am using, but I can live with >>> them. If you (Bill) can improve on them - with advice from >>> thoughtful people here, I'm sure many would appreciate it. >>> >>> I don't use the Jazz font - with the exception of those >>> articulations, but many do. I am sympathetic to the desire to >>> achieve a look that is more informal, perhaps more spontaneous >>> looking than Maestro and Engraver, but I have yet to find a >>> "handwritten" style font that I like. (I looked at the Ash Font >>> and even bought a copy. I prefer it to Jazz, but not enough to >>> use it regularly.) There is something about high quality hand >>> copying that I love, and I got used to beautiful work from Bill >>> Rowen, who did most of the copying for the National Jazz Ensemble, >>> and from whom I learned a great deal about music preparation. I >>> don't think we'd have fired a good copyist whose style looked like >>> the Jazz Font, but we'd surely have continued to look for the kind >>> of elegant work that Bill Rowen produced for us. >>> >>> Chuck >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > Chuck Israels > 230 North Garden Terrace > Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 > phone (360) 671-3402 > fax (360) 676-6055 > www.chuckisraels.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
