In other words, it's sort of a 'figured soprano.'
Aaron J. Rabushka
arabus...@austin.rr.com
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From: "Nigel Hanley" <i...@nigelhanley.com>
To: <finale@shsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Topline notation question
Topline notation as described tells the guitarist to play chords with the
indicated rhythm and the indicated top note of the voicing. On a guitar
part, we need to know whether to voice the melodic line, or play it as a
single line melody. This type of notation indicates that. Otherwise you
would need more 'English' on the part. And as someone once said, you don't
want to have to write the player a letter.
On 26/11/2010, at 11:45 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
On 11/25/2010 10:49 PM, Nigel Hanley wrote:
An example of the use of topline notation is the Everly Bros song, 'Walk
Right Back' . The opening chord riff is on the tonic chord, with the top
note of the chord moving from the fifth to the sixth, then the seventh.
Notating this fully is both unnecessary and cluttered. Pianists and
guitarists know how to voice this, they just need that 'topline'
information.
And as I said before, it's much easier to
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But any good fake book does that without any special notation -- it simply
places the chord changes over the appropriate beats and writes the melody.
I still don't understand what additional information the downward stems
impart which can't be imparted simply by writing the desired part with the
chords indicated above the appropriate notes.
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