Well you *can* do that (and I've seen it done that way), but often - the music 
being improvised anyway - you don't really have a tempo indication, except for 
Swing, Med. Swing, Uptempo Swing, Ballad etc., and those are just suggestions 
or show how the piece was played in a referenced recording. That's, if we're 
talking about a lead sheet - look into a "Real Book" for examples.

If it's orchestral music (eg Big Band), the score probably contains more exact 
tempo values (which my Big Band conductor usually ignores ...). 



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> On 20 Mar 2015, at 14:55, Anton Curl <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't know much about jazz. It's not the kind of music I'm usually 
> typesetting.
> 
> I never saw a jazz lead sheet with swing written followed by the metronome 
> mark between brackets. If it's the policy, I can adopt it. But I'm curious to 
> see some examples of it.
> 
> Anton Curl
> 
>> On 20/03/2015 14:36, Robert Schmaus wrote:
>> If you're producing a jazz lead sheet (as the "swing" indicates), you're 
>> wrong. 
>> 
>> \tempo "Swing" 4=125
>> 
>> Merely indicates that the *style* is Swing while the tempo is 125. You could 
>> also write 
>> \tempo "Swing" 4=200
>> Which would indicate that this is a swing piece of tempo 200. 
>> 
>> Jazz tempo indications don't work like classical ones where a tempo name 
>> also implies a certain (narrow) range of bpm. 
>> 
>> Best, Rob 
>> 
>> ______
>> 
>> Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs             
>> he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 
>> -- Giorgos Seferis
>> 
>> On 20 Mar 2015, at 10:03, Anton Curl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's not exactly what I want.
>>> 
>>> "\tempo "Swing" 4=125" seems to mean "the tempo is Swing which correspond 
>>> to 4=125". Whereas what I want is 2 different independent indications. The 
>>> same result but without the parenthesis for example.
>>> 
>>> Maybe the \tempo command is not the command to use in this case. But I 
>>> didn't find another way to have an indication once in the score and in each 
>>> part.
>>> 
>>> Anton Curl
>>> 
>>>> On 20/03/2015 09:36, Craig Dabelstein wrote:
>>>> Hi Anton,
>>>> 
>>>> Can't you do:
>>>> 
>>>> \tempo "Swing" 4=125
>>>> 
>>>> Or is that not what you are looking for?
>>>> 
>>>> Craig
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 at 17:59 Anton Curl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd like to put an indication displayed in all the parts but only once
>>>>> in the score, like a tempo mark.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I found this syntax:
>>>>>    \tempo \markup { "swing" }
>>>>> But at the same place in the score, I already have a \tempo command:
>>>>>    \tempo 4=125
>>>>>    \tempo \markup { "swing" }
>>>>>    c
>>>>> 
>>>>> And Lilypond ignore the second.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What do I have to do to display both indications?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anton Curl
>>>>> 
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