Chuck Israels wrote:
Dear Mike,
Here's an example of a pretty specific part - lots of detail. They are
not all this complex.
<http://homepage.mac.com/cisraels/filechute/Perhaps%20-%20Drums.pdf>
I hope this is helpful.
Chuck,
thank you for sharing that with us -- it is very helpful.
I have a question, though about the meter (4/4) and the tempo indication
(half=104) -- why use that tempo indication if not writing the piece in
cut-time? Or I suppose I could ask it another way: why use that meter
when the tempo indication shows that the music should be felt at the
half-note rather than the quarter-note?
I'm curious simply because I know that many such pieces are written in
cut-time but are counted in 4, and I explain that to my confused
students like this:
When the leader counts it off with "1, 2, 1234" the first "1, 2" are to
indicate the cut-time beat for the two-step feel of the dance that the
music was meant to accompany and the "1234" indicate the way the
musicians will actually count the music.
And I can understand that practice has simply evolved over many years
earlier in the 20th century, when much of the music was hand-written and
the finer details of music engraving were not worried about. But in a
modern edition I find it curious to find the meter and the tempo
indication at odds with each other and am curious, being out of the loop
as I am with current jazz-band music engraving idiosyncracies.
--
David H. Bailey
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