{"id":6418,"date":"2025-01-28T05:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:43:50","slug":"and-i-will-draw-the-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/28\/and-i-will-draw-the-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Will Draw the Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ok, lots to talk about here with music.\u00a0 Before I dive in, I’ll mention that the weather has gotten a bit warmer.\u00a0 It’s still down in the 20’s at night, but it’s creeping up above freezing for a couple hours in the daytime and last week\u2019s snow is beginning to disappear.\u00a0 Still, I’m not going start biking again until the roads are clear and clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, my jazz group Spacecats has a show coming up on April 2nd at a place called Jazz on Main in Mount Kisco.  We’re hoping to build on the momentum of our last gig, add a bunch of new material and sharpen up the songs already in our repertoire.  More on this as the date draws closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the songs we’re working up these days is Son of the Sun.  This is a fairly long and complicated song with lots of changes in meter and open jamming sections linked up with thru-composed parts.  I feel really lucky and grateful that the Spacecats want to tackle such a challenging song, and in fact we’re gonna knock it out of the park.  But I needed a better chart than my old hand-written one to get the music across to the group.  My drummer Rick suggested I try an app called MuseScore, a notation package from the sam people who make Audible.  In the past I’ve used Finale, which I found hugely slow and cumbersome although hugely feature-rich, as well as things like the built-in notation for midi in ProTools, which I found quick but not very good.  MuseScore hits the sweet spot in the middle, rich and full featured enough for jazz charts, but pretty fast too.  It’s not tied to a midi sequence or performance (although you can import a midi file); the focus is a hundred percent on the notation, and you can do things like add repeats, fermatas, a D.S, or coda, hash marks for soloing over, and chord symbols.  This is a big step up from writing out charts by hand.  Hopefully now I can write out and teach my band a bunch more songs that I’d been afraid might be too much to try and notate.  So here I present to you my very first lead sheet made in MuseScore. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, lots to talk about here with music.\u00a0 Before I dive in, I’ll mention that the weather has gotten a bit warmer.\u00a0 It’s still down in the 20’s at night, but it’s creeping up above freezing for a couple hours in the daytime and last week\u2019s snow is beginning to disappear.\u00a0 Still, I’m not going … Continue reading “And I Will Draw the Chart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}