{"id":383,"date":"2009-09-24T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2009-09-24T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:13:34","slug":"383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"use m for &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2009\/09\/21\/formatting-cheat-sheets\/\">my post about formatting cheat sheets for songs<\/a>, I tested out my cheat sheet for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/misc\/IWannaBeLovedByYou\/\">I Wanna Be Loved By You<\/a>&#8221; at a jam last night.  One of the guys found that it was breeze.  The other player had a tough time making sense of it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems was that I wrote up minor chords by putting a dash after them, so &#8220;C minor&#8221; would be written &#8220;C-&#8220;.  This notation is a jazz convention.  Jazz players use &#8216;-&#8216; for minor, &#8216;+&#8217; for augmented, &#8216;\u00b0&#8217; for diminished, &#8216;\u00f8&#8217; for half diminished.  <\/p>\n<p>The guy who had an easy time with the chart is a jazz player.  The guy who didn&#8217;t is a bluegrass player.  <\/p>\n<p>Bluegrass players use the convention of a lowercase &#8216;m&#8217;, so that <code>C <em>minor<\/em> = C<em>-<\/em> = C<em>m<\/em><\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>I like the bluegrass style for a couple reasons.  One, it&#8217;s intuitive.  A beginner would probably guess what &#8216;m&#8217; means but not what &#8220;-&#8221; means.  Two, it&#8217;s visually distinctive.  A dash is a tiny and hard to see, while a &#8216;m&#8217; is very clear.  <\/p>\n<p>The down side is that it&#8217;s faster to write a dash than the letter &#8216;m&#8217;, and that a dash is more comfortable to jazz players.  <\/p>\n<p>I have updated the cheat sheet to use the &#8216;m&#8217; style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post about formatting cheat sheets for songs, I tested out my cheat sheet for &#8220;I Wanna Be Loved By You&#8221; at a jam last night. One of the guys found that it was breeze. The other player had a tough time making sense of it. One of the problems was that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}