On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
John Spicknall wrote:
I know from [non-jazz] friends on this list there is perhaps info
about entering chord notation here that is conventional jazz
notation--the kind of notation one might find in an Aebersold
play-a-long booklet. My use of Finale is generally limited to jazz
lead sheets, transcriptions, stuff for students, non-complex
compositions and arrangements.
I'd like to be able to indicate major chords with a triangle, major
minor 7th chords with a a triangle atop a straight line, a major 6/9
chord with the 6 and 9 in vertical alignment, a half-diminished 7th
chord indicated by a circle with slanted line through it, etc. I am
still back in the stone-age use version 2003 or so.
Help!
It's just a matter of patience.
Lots and lots of patience.
Click on the Chord tool.
On the pull-down menu, select Manual Input.
Right-Click on the handle of the Chord you want to change. (In
Windows - I'm not sure what the mac equivalent is).
Select "Edit Chord Definition".
In the Chord Definition dialog box, click on the "Edit" button at
the bottom.
This brings up the Chord Suffix Editor.
Enter each symbol you want to use for your Chord Definition in the
box at the upper right, then adjust the positioning and font and
all that jazz, then click on the NEXT button to go on.
When satisfied, click OK.
There's an easier way than making each one from zero. In the
Libraries folder inside the Chord Suffixes folder there is a library
called Chord Suffixes (Jazz Text) that contains most of what you
need. You will only need to create the suffix that is a triangle over
a dash using Carl's method, as the rest of them are there already. I
suggest you resize them as you like and save the whole library as "My
Jazz Suffixes" or something that you will remember, so you can load
it into your documents easily. Load it into your default doc and save
it, and you'll never have to worry about it again.
The only drag about this is that when you import this library (or any
Jazz suffix library) into a document that uses Maestro as its
default, all the parentheses will be in the wrong font. MakeMusic
claims you can substitute this font easily using the Swap Fonts
command, but it hasn't worked on my Mac for a number of versions now.
The only solution is to edit EACH parentheses character individually
for each suffix that you use. Once you have done this and saved the
library, it will import correctly now, so you only have to do it once.
Maybe this is fixed in 2010 (hopefully optimistic smile, wide eyed
and perky!)
Wait, what is that flying by the window outside? Is that a pig?
A triangle over a straight line is easy to mistake in the usually
bad light on a bandstand.
I have to agree. Hyphen THEN triangle gets my vote, beside one another.
Christopher
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