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Well, take any jazz standard. As you say, scores in jazz are at most a rough guide, not transcription of how the music should be played. Yet, if you take a scor

Well, take any jazz standard. As you say, scores in jazz are at most a rough guide, not transcription of how the music should be played. Yet, if you take a score and make a MIDI player play it as it is written, any jazz fan will recognize the tune instantly. For instance, take http://i17.tinypic.com/4uneoft.jpg http://i17.tinypic.com/4uneoft.jpg Remove the title, add a mistake or two in the score, and give it to some jazz fan who can read music, he'll recognize the tune instantly, yet nobody ever played it this way, so blandly.

microtherion 8y ago
In fact, they may find it easier to recognize that tune from this transcription, than from some of the actual recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZG2WnXPgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZG2WnXPgk
tommymachine 8y ago
They'll recognize the chords instantly, without even having to glance at the printed notes. In practice, these things are usually called "charts" or lead sheets (if they have a melody) because they chart out the changes, which you solo over. They usually are found in "fake books", where it's assumed that the melody transcription is relatively awful, but it's close enough that a decent musician can quickly figure out the actual tune from it (assuming they've heard it before). You'll almost never hear any seasoned jazz players refer to a chart like this as a "score", unless they have a very very classical background, or are sort of making a joke about the quality of a particular lead sheet. Scores are for orchestras and films and things like that. It's strange to see people keep referring to these sh*tty transcriptions as 'scores'. It's like calling Kraft Mac 'n' cheese "pasta". Like, ok maybe technically it could qualify as a pasta, but you don't really refer to it as that in practice.

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Well, take any jazz standard. As you say, scores in jazz are at most a rough guide, not transcription of how the music should be played. Yet, if you take a scor

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microtherion 8y ago
In fact, they may find it easier to recognize that tune from this transcription, than from some of the actual recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZG2WnXPgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZG2WnXPgk
tommymachine 8y ago
They'll recognize the chords instantly, without even having to glance at the printed notes. In practice, these things are usually called "charts" or lead sheets (if they have a melody) because they chart out the changes, which you solo over. They usually are found in "fake books", where it's assumed that the melody transcription is relatively awful, but it's close enough that a decent musician can quickly figure out the actual tune from it (assuming they've heard it before). You'll almost never hear any seasoned jazz players refer to a chart like this as a "score", unless they have a very very classical background, or are sort of making a joke about the quality of a particular lead sheet. Scores are for orchestras and films and things like that. It's strange to see people keep referring to these sh*tty transcriptions as 'scores'. It's like calling Kraft Mac 'n' cheese "pasta". Like, ok maybe technically it could qualify as a pasta, but you don't really refer to it as that in practice.