I see your point - I always taught students that any tempo alteration
basically means the same to them - look up. I do use the eyeglasses
from time to time in Finale if I'm doing a leadsheet and need to do
something unusual to keep the number of pages at a minimum for my
guitar players or woodwinds - eg. a simple verse, chorus, bridge tune
that has an extension leading into the chorus that only happens the
2nd time through - I'll include a text instruction to skip the
measures (or whatever the specific problem is) when appropriate and
the eyeglasses near the text to tip them off that there is something
non-standard happening - then, of course, verbally tell them and walk
them through in rehearsal...
TC
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:56 PM, John Howell wrote:
Personal opinion below, nothing more.
I've never seen it in print. It is a standard personal notation
like many others (and I've learned that Europeans have another set
of such personal markings that we've never adopted here in the
U.S.), and as such it has no agreed-upon meaning. You may use it
to mean "look up," but I may use it to mean "watch out!" (Which is
exactly what I DO use it to mean, as a personal note to myself.)
Like any non-standard notation, feel free to use it, but don't
expect everyone else to know how you intend for them to interpret
it. And any musician who isn't smart enough to look up and watch
when a tempo change is marked (is it clearly marked?) has no
business playing in a big band.
John
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