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    Default Grey Owl - Traditional

    Here's a chart for Grey Owl, a Canadian fiddle tune. It contains a "crooked" measure of 2/4, and I'm not sure how to lay it out. I've attached two attempts, but I don't like either. Any suggestions?

    Grey Owl - Unknown Composer

    Grey Owl 1 - Unknown Composer

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    Quote Originally Posted by loonsailor View Post
    Here's a chart for Grey Owl, a Canadian fiddle tune. It contains a "crooked" measure of 2/4, and I'm not sure how to lay it out. I've attached two attempts, but I don't like either. Any suggestions?

    Grey Owl - Unknown Composer

    Grey Owl 1 - Unknown Composer
    Many tunes (especialy old time fiddle tunes) can be difficult to properly attribute to a composer. In that case, they can be labeled (in the composer name field) as Traditional or Trad.

    https://www.irealb.com/forums/showth...er-information

    In your chart labeled 1, measure 8 has chord spacing that is not understood by the player.
    I like that you displayed the 2/4 bar shorter than the rest of the 4-space bars even though that's not needed for the player.
    The shorter bar really helps identifiy to the reader there's a ”hiccup" or "backstep" (ala Clinch Mt.)
    Here's that chart edited to work for both the reader and the player and still fit the A section into two systems.

    Grey Owl 1-1 - Trad

    Some previous suggestions apply here as well:
    https://www.irealb.com/forums/showth...7433#post47433

    Here's a version that maintains 4-space bar-size throughout for comparison.

    Grey Owl 2 - Trad

    I've attached a sheet I found FYI (it's slightly different)
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    My goals for iRp chart lay-out:
    1. make it as easy as possible for the musician to sight-read it (ready, set, go)
    2. make it work properly in the player
    3. make it look nice (square and even)
    4. make it fit on one page
    Some charts are more difficult than others...
    https://www.irealb.com/forums/showth...5854#post25854

    )BOB
    Last edited by pdxdjazz; 08-08-2019 at 05:20 PM.

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    Thanks for the help / advice. There are many versions of this tune, and the chords on this chart are the way we play it, as taught by John Mailander. I've modified, as per your suggestions.

    Grey Owl - Trad.

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