On 11/25/2010 10:49 PM, Nigel Hanley wrote:
An example of the use of topline notation is the Everly Bros song, 'Walk Right
Back' . The opening chord riff is on the tonic chord, with the top note of the
chord moving from the fifth to the sixth, then the seventh. Notating this
fully is both unnecessary and cluttered. Pianists and guitarists know how to
voice this, they just need that 'topline' information.
And as I said before, it's much easier to
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But any good fake book does that without any special notation -- it
simply places the chord changes over the appropriate beats and writes
the melody.
I still don't understand what additional information the downward stems
impart which can't be imparted simply by writing the desired part with
the chords indicated above the appropriate notes.
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