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Title: Chord diagrams
Post by: Larry Allen on 2000-02-06 05:00 AM
How do I place Chord diagrams above the trebel cleff? There must be a way. Anyone know?

Thanks Larry
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Andrew Purdam on 2000-02-06 05:00 AM
NWC doesn't support chord charts directly.
However, if you are sure of what key your gonna be in, you can use a chord font like Seville and enter the chords as place text. This seems to work fine once you know what chord corresponds to which character. Transposition is a pain, tho'.

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Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Marco Losavio on 2000-02-14 05:00 AM
Where can I get Seville font? And Jazz font?
Thanks for the attention.
Marco Losavio
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Fred Nachbaur on 2000-02-14 05:00 AM
Try using a search engine to find the specific fonts you're looking for. There are several shareware fonts (but not the ones you mention) on the NWC Scriptorium (http://nwc-scriptorium.org/).

Click on "Other Helpful Files"

Good luck!
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: alex on 2000-10-23 04:00 AM
How can i learn the notes on the base and trebel cleff so i can rember them?
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Art thompson on 2000-10-24 04:00 AM
Treble spaces - F A C E
Treble lines Every Good Boy Does Fine

Bass spaces - A C E G (Not a great acronym)
Bass lines - Good Boys Do Fine Acts ( or make up your own!)
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Stephen Randall on 2000-10-29 04:00 AM
Bass spaces:

All Cows Eat Grass (or so my music teacher told me!)
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Art Thompson on 2000-10-29 04:00 AM
Very nice. The ones out my back window confirm what your music teacher told you. Back to the original topic - Chord diagrams. I suppose one of you ambitious types could make a font of chord diagrams. Also, I saw a program for sale in Circuit City that did support them; don't remember the name(Music Writer??), or how it compared to NWC in other ways.If that's really important to you, then I guess the (cow eating)grass may be greener elsewhere. I'll stick with NWC, thank you.
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Fred Nachbaur on 2000-10-29 04:00 AM
Don't know about yours, but when it comes to eating grass, the cows around here are outstanding in their field.

Back OT, there is presently a guitar chords font by Steve Allen in beta. The latest version that's been posted AFAIK is still available on the newsgroup, in his post of 6 June 2000.
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Art thompson on 2000-10-30 05:00 AM
Which window? the one I'm looking at cows through?
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Joe Music on 2000-10-30 05:00 AM
I have seen TrueType fonts with guitar frets posted on download sites, presumably free, but one can't be sure if they were pirated. I'd refer you but since I don't play guitar, I didn't keep the fret fonts. Try a keyword search.

However, I haven't come across a font with note-head (piano) chords. Apparently all (or nearly all) music publishing programs, including NWC, construct them dynamically from user input.
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: bug on 2000-10-30 05:00 AM
You know how with Noteworthy you can choose the key
signature in that window? I like that. It's cool.
The same could be done for guitar chords which are
changed in transposition same as the key signature.
shouldn't be too hard? :) *hint* *hint*
have a nice day. [bug]
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Barry Graham on 2000-10-31 05:00 AM
I have a font called "Seville" - dont know where it came from possibly a legacy from long-since uninstalled program.
It seems to have fret diagrams of major/minor chords based on the character typed in.
Is this what your looking for?
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Grant on 2000-10-31 05:00 AM
For what it's worth, my recollection is that Seville was distributed with a notation program (Finale?) and is copyrighted.
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Art thompson on 2000-10-31 05:00 AM
Jazzfont.com has some cool looking fonts, including Jazzcord and Swingcord. not free, though.
Title: Re: Chord diagrams
Post by: Joe Music on 2000-10-31 05:00 AM
Regarding fret fonts for guitar:

There are fonts called "frets", "frets A", "frets B", and "frets C". I am not sure whether these are free, shareware, or whatever. Decide for yourself. A font MAY be free even if it has a copyright notice, depending on what the copyright holder has to say about that. Here are a couple of URLs that I found with a search engine:

http://www.fontfreak.com/ding-f.htm

http://www.dingbatpages.com/arts/music.html