On Thu, November 25, 2010 2:01 am, Jari Williamsson wrote:
On 2010-11-25 00:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
What's topline notation?
Apparently a notation method for pop/jazz to only notate the top melody
line, but to also indicate to the player that chords should be filled
out beneath. An
where does the downward stem extend to? if the stems extend all a
uniform length (octave for ex.) i would find that incredibly ugly.
but extended to a common line on the staff or position below the
staff could be a better looking design... i realize this is for
notation i am unfamiliar
Hi Jef,
It's usually all up-stems in this kind of notation, and the stem extension
length (below the notehead) tends to be about an octave. But there's no reason
why the stem extensions couldn't be a uniform length -- you'd just have to make
sure the lowest note of all of the chords falls on
On Nov 25, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Jef,
It's usually all up-stems in this kind of notation, and the stem extension
length (below the notehead) tends to be about an octave.
Darcy,
Up? Down? I'm confused. I think I have seen notation somewhat like what I
think you
To those with experience with Bill's Smart Lines (or maybe Finale's native ones
too, I don't know, since I always use my library of Duncan ones): I am
modifying the Smart line that says Cue...Play so that I can have a
line that says Ab (flat) Pedal... , and I can't find a way to
Hi Chuck,
Imagine a stem-up note where the stem *also* extends about an octave below the
notehead -- in other words, imagine a stems-up octave, with the lower note
hidden.
Chord symbols are usually written above the note in this case but otherwise
it's as you describe.
Cheers,
- DJA
-
Can you use a font like MetTimes that has the flat symbol as a regular font
character instead?
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net wrote:
To those with experience with Bill's Smart Lines (or maybe Finale's native
ones too, I don't know, since I always use my
Got it. Makes sense, if the stems don't create too much clutter. Seems as if
what I described might be OK too, but perhaps harder to accomplish in Finale,
and it does have the problem of staff lines interfering with the chord symbols.
Then I start imagining opaque enclosures around each
Hi Ryan,
I'm not sure you can change the font for part of the text (like you can in
Finale for the last few versions), once you are in Bill's Smart Line editor.
If anyone knows that this is possible and how to do it, that would surely work.
Otherwise, maybe there's a font that combines text
On 25 Nov 2010 at 8:01, Jari Williamsson wrote:
On 2010-11-25 00:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
What's topline notation?
Apparently a notation method for pop/jazz to only notate the top
melody line, but to also indicate to the player that chords should be
filled out beneath. An empty
On 2010-11-25 22:07, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Imagine a stem-up note where the stem *also* extends about an
octave below the notehead -- in other words, imagine a stems-up
octave, with the lower note hidden.
Chord symbols are usually written above the note in this case but
otherwise it's as
Hi Jari,
The way I've achieved this in the past was to create an articulation
consisting of a custom shape straight line (same thickness as the stem
setting) that went down approx. one octave and was set to automatically
attach to the existing stem where it ended at the notehead. Then I applied
Sorry for the ignorant question - long time speedy user trying to get up to
speed with simple entry. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the
carat to appear in a spot of my choosing. I can get it to appear at the
beginning of the first line of the first staff, but that's all.
I periodically go through the finale tutorial for simple entry and come out the
other end still not being quite up to speed about the caret. It always seems to
work in the tutorial for me but never afterward.
Good Luck,
Michael
mmathew_musicp...@comcast.net
mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com
Hi all,
In Fin2011 (and probably Fin2010 as well, but I never used it), the
built-in cue notes plugin and TGTools cue notes plugin don't handle the
text expression with the cued instrument's name correctly, on account of
the change from note-attachment to beat-attachment of expressions.
At 4:34 PM -0500 11/25/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 25 Nov 2010 at 8:01, Jari Williamsson wrote:
On 2010-11-25 00:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
What's topline notation?
Apparently a notation method for pop/jazz to only notate the top
melody line, but to also indicate to the player
On 25 Nov 2010 at 21:06, John Howell wrote:
At 4:34 PM -0500 11/25/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 25 Nov 2010 at 8:01, Jari Williamsson wrote:
On 2010-11-25 00:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
What's topline notation?
Apparently a notation method for pop/jazz to only notate the
I hadn't heard the term 'topline notation' until this thread, but am very
familiar with it. Well, I was very familiar with it, when contemporary pop and
jazz charts were hand-written. I remember trying to construct a workaround much
like was suggested here, but without much success.
For
I had a good guitar player point out parts of the guitar part of West
Side Story, which used notation as is being described (as far as I
can tell) as a good way for a non-guitarist to write for guitar. The
top note, rhythm and chord are indicated, but the underlying voicing
is left to the
Topline notation is one step beyond rhythmic notation, which is one step beyond
slash notation. They each have their
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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
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Nigel Hanley i...@nigelhanley.com wrote:
Topline notation is one step beyond rhythmic notation, which is one step
beyond slash notation.
Oh! Like this?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-29967575513903624#
RBH
At 10:19 PM -0500 11/25/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
I can't quite figure out the purpose of this. Couldn't you just
notate the melody and the chords and add a rubric saying keep
accompaniment below the melody?
Disclaimer: I'm not a jazz person, although I'm not ignorant of the style.
I think
On 2010-11-26 00:57, Brian Appleby wrote:
Sorry for the ignorant question - long time
speedy user trying to get up to speed with simple
entry. For the life of me, I can't figure out
how to get the carat to appear in a spot of my
choosing. I can get it to appear at the
beginning of the first
On 2010-11-26 00:15, Brian Williams wrote:
The way I've achieved this in the past was to create an articulation
consisting of a custom shape straight line (same thickness as the stem
setting) that went down approx. one octave and was set to automatically
attach to the existing stem where it
While I'm on my soapbox, I'd like to learn a Mac version of placing the caret.
Truly I must be stupid, twenty years of Finale and I haven't got that down
either.
On 26/11/2010, at 5:01 PM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
On 2010-11-26 00:57, Brian Appleby wrote:
Sorry for the ignorant question -
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