16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
5:15 p.m.
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Josh Lawrence wrote:
Hello all!
I group I recently joined is doing a gig in two weeks. After a few
months of practicing, there are still a few tunes that I don't have
memorized, so I need to generate a lead sheet pretty quickly. I could
write them out by hand fairly easily, but I would like to keep a
digital library of leadsheets. Is there a program that will generate
"realbook-style" leadsheets for Linux? I basically need just a simple
staff with what I call rhythm slashes, and a mechanism for putting
chord symbols above the staff. (Jazz players who have spent many
nights in a dark room reading the original - and illegal - Real Book
know exactly what I'm looking for here.)
I realize there are complex tools like Lilypond that will probably do
this, but I would like something simpler, maybe with a gui.
Thanks!
Lilypond is a formatter. You need something to score, but not really. No
notes, just slashes and chord names.
Noteedit and its successor nted will not do this for you. No slash symbol in
either.
Musescore (mscore) will let you pick and place a slash symbol on your staff.
Not the easiest interface for this particular task and you must enter every
single one of them (this is otherwize a better up-and-coming WYSIWYG scorer,
not dependent upon Lilypond), but it will work!
If you have any version of "Jammer" around (windows, not GPL, costs $), it
will run using wine and lead-sheets is what this program does. Formatting
for printout is not up to Lilypond and such but it does work. You do not need
to enter the slashes. (After you have entered some chords, you can try some
styles and see what an arranging tool this thing is!)