Re: Re: Music Notation symbols for loops?

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 12/31/2012 4:17 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>   I once had a
> chance to study a score by Elliot Sharp for an octet and he had simply
> penned in instructions in plain English to the musicians on the bars
> where that made more sense then traditional notation symbols.
Yeah, Per,  in even simpler contexts,  I often notate the percentage of 
swing when writing out a transcription
of , say,  a New Orleans 2nd Line rhtyhm that has a certain kind of feel.

It's all notation, whether verbal or symbollic, so the point is ,"How 
clearly can I communicate to the musicians
what I intend to be done"

To me,  on a piece of paper writing something like this makes sense when 
notating synchronized
loops of different lengths (sorry,  I can't find a music notation font, 
but you get the idea).


LOOP #1 (hi hat)
*4/4  ||:  X * X X * X * X X * X * X X * X**:||*

LOOP #2 (clave)
*4/4  ||:  X * * X * * * X * * X * X * * * | **X * * X * * * * * * X * X 
* X * :||
*