On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
At 10:19 PM -0400 6/24/06, Darcy James Argue wrote:
If the specific triadic G-over-F voicing is crucial, and it's above
slash marks, G-over-F is your best bet. If the precise arrangement of
notes in the voicing can be left to the discretion of the player, or
if it's just a label above a piano part that's already fully-written
out, "F6/9(#11)" is better.
What he said.
But:
I mean which would a musician understand better
As a guitarist I would immediately recognize and be able to play
F6/9(#11), but I would have to sit around and think about the G-over-F
notation.
Yes, the triad-over notation is as much a voicing instruction as a
chord symbol, so it mostly speaks to pianists.
Specifying the target instrument and musical genre might help someone
provide a more definitive answer.
The musical genre is important too, because non-jazz players might not
be used to seeing the triad-over notation, nor be able to interpret it
correctly. As much as we want chord symbols to be universal across
style (I even do some classical harmonic analysis using them!) there
are some symbols that are not common outside jazz.
Christopher
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