Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Israels
On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Michael Greensill wrote: > It's always interesting to see other peoples ideal of the perfect 'look' for > chords. There must be as many ideals as there are jazz musicians. > > I like Chuck's example (which are Bill Duncans right?) a lot except > for..there's

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-14 Thread Michael Greensill
It's always interesting to see other peoples ideal of the perfect 'look' for chords. There must be as many ideals as there are jazz musicians. I like Chuck's example (which are Bill Duncans right?) a lot except for..there's alway an exceptthe alterations. e.g. When I hand write c

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Here is another THUMBS UP for Bill's fonts. As part of the whole package, he also included a way to get nice Bmi7/E (alternate root) chords as well. I use his Time Signature, Chord and Articulations fonts daily. On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: jef, > > I am home no

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Israels
jef, I am home now. Christopher described some of the advantages of the Bill Duncan chords. Bill used to sell just the chord font for $40. I don't know if Nick sells parts of the Finale Productivity kit or just the whole thing. $250 seems like a lot to me when Bill used to sell the whole th

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-13 Thread Christopher Smith
Wow, I'm not used to thinking of sizes in these terms. The root and the suffix sizes are handled in two different areas of Finale, so that decision might be out of your hands. I also find Finale's defaults in both the Engraver default and the Jazz default to be too small. I make my roots and th

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-13 Thread SN jef chippewa
thanks, i don't use chords often enough that i would bother purchasing a chord font though. especially at 250 greenbacks (!), or have i read something wrong? http://www.npcimaging.com/books/BillDuncan.htm I am out and about, but can send you a sample of Bill Duncan's chord font & library la

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-13 Thread Chuck Israels
Jef, I am out and about, but can send you a sample of Bill Duncan's chord font & library later, or perhaps you can see examples in Nick Carter's NPC imaging site. It's worth looking at, even if you make other decisions. Chuck Sent from my iPhone On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, SN jef chippewa

Re: [Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-13 Thread dershem
On 2/13/2011 9:35 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: ok am building a chord library and i see that editing and fine-tuning them (changing fonts, V / H position) is a serious pain in the ass once they have been created so i aim to do this right the first time. the default in my doc was trebuchet, but i

[Finale] chords - basic tips?

2011-02-13 Thread SN jef chippewa
ok am building a chord library and i see that editing and fine-tuning them (changing fonts, V / H position) is a serious pain in the ass once they have been created so i aim to do this right the first time. the default in my doc was trebuchet, but i have changed to another sansserif. ok tha