Hi all !
I wonder if there is a way to making Jazz notation schetches (if you know what I mean). I make a lot of schetches for guitar, bass, drums and keyboard where the is a lot of improvisation and only the theme is written with notes, everything else is just marked with a slash for each 1/4. Do anyone know a way to do this? It would be a plus if the drums could be written with x instead of a dot with a staple on it.
If there is no way to do this it would be a suggestion to the developers to implement this very useful possibility in the program.
Regards
Robert
You can do anything you like with text and suitable fonts which there are plenty of, but don't expect the music to play.
In version 1, I think you have to do it mostly as text:
Insert Bar line
(text -preserve width) "/ (some spaces) / (some spaces)/ (some spaces)/ (some spaces"
(text -preserve width)some spaces
Bar line
but this doesn't seem to give the best result.
Version 2 has x and invisible noteheads. Comping slashes can be created by first entering a quarter note with an invisible notehead and a stem length of 0, then placing a text entry just before it, using the forward slash / from your keyboard. Set the text properties to "at next note/bar" and left justification, and choose whatever font you like.
If you want the slash with a note stem, do exactly the same, but leave the stem length at its default setting.
I've created a font to use for lead sheets and jazz charts, with chord symbols, bar lines, slashes, and stuff. It doesn't have the x-head notes, though - for that you have to either download the Bongo font from the Scriptorioum or get version 2 of Noteworthy. One thing I've found, though, is that using custom fonts is a problem if you're sending I've sometimes done rhythm cues using regular noteheads on a muted staff that has 1 or 0 lines.
Eamail me at "mcfarvan at hotmail dot com" if you want the font - put the word "noteworthy" in the subject or my spam filter might eat your message.
If you're sending with custom fonts,convert it to a pdf file with pdf995 or pdf creator( Both free downloads) then it will look and print correct at the other end.(It won't play though)