Dan Tillberg wrote:
Hi folks,
When arranging for big band, there might be for instance three separate
long choruses which essentially repeats in piano and guitar since the rely
on the same chord pattern even though the horns have three totally
different designed choruses. In the score, pi/gui are repeated for easy
score reading, and it is of course easy to achieve this with copy/paste
tools. But the parts get of course very long, and especially in the piano
part where I have suggested voicings for both hands. For the horns this is
rarely a problem since multimeasure rests shorten the parts.
Anyone having any good advice on how to shorten e. g. a piano part with
these characteristics? I am not even sure how I want it to look...so first
I might need some advice what is typical and then what Finale can do in
this area. But essentially I guess I could use some method like giving
information to the pianist in letters G, H, I that chords and voicing
suggestions are as in C, D, E.
Now pianoplayers might not have a big problem with turning pages, however
drummers certainly do not like to have parts with more than 2 or max 3
pages - fully understandable. So also here I hope there is some standard
for how to say that B is latin 16 bars and no cues, C is latin 24 bars and
no cues etc.
I know that this is fairly general question. But I hope there is some
article or similar about this that someone can point out...?
Thanks
/D
This isn't something you can handle by using repeats and/or DS markings?
I often have pieces given to me to copy/engrave that have open solo
sections with different background parts, and I generally handle them by
just having repeats around them, and over the affected parts putting
specific instructions.
As an example, I might have a section that repeats three times, and will
put "3X" at the beginning of all the repeats, "BG 2d X" on the sax
parts, and "BG 3d X" on the brass section parts, leaving the rhythm
section only one repeat. For the drums (where the kicks follow the
backgrounds) I might put the 2d repeat on the top line and the 3d repeat
on the bottom line, with appropriate notes in the drum part.
But if I have a section that repeats pretty much note-for-note, a DS
might work.
That said, there are always Bob Florence and Rob McConnell parts, which
can be up to 8 or 9 pages in the horns, and longer in the rhythm
section. Then you just suffer and cross your fingers, and write the
parts so that page turns are as efficient and logical as possible.
Good luck!
cd
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