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Jazz notation

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

Re: Jazz notation

Reply #1 –
You can do anything you like with text and suitable fonts which there are plenty of, but don't expect the music to play.

Re: Jazz notation

Reply #2 –
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.

Re: Jazz notation

Reply #3 –
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.

Re: Jazz notation

Reply #4 –
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)