[Dixielandjazz] music notation

[Richard Broadie]

Music notation convention would have the second note as the note the bass
player would use.  I suspect that, lacking a bass player, you'd likely to
use that bass note as the root of your chord voicing.
Bb/G as an example would have the pianist play a Bb chord and the bass
player playing a G.

I hope this is of help.


Dick Broadie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Gates" <keng at iswest.com>
To: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Notation question


> Please forgive a naive question.  I'm still in the process of learning
> some basics.
> The fake book I have sometimes uses a chord notation with a slash.
> For example--The first five chords shown for "Memories of You"--
> are---Eb  Edim  Fm7  D7/F#  Eb/G   -------------------------
> I'm assuming the /F# means to use that note of the chord as the bass note.
> Likewise-- /G  to use the G as the bass note.
> The bass line of these five chords then might be --Eb  E   F   F#  G
> --------------------------
> My question---Is this only important to the bass player---or maybe
> the piano player?   Who pays any attention to this?
> Ken Gates
>
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