Talk:Chord chart

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Contents 1 Rewrite 2 Merge 3 Rhythmic notation 4 Jazz chart

[edit] Rewrite

I hope no one was too attached to the old version of this article. I rewrote it from a professional musician's viewpoint. It looks like the original intent of this article was to describe a particular kind of computer file, but I think those files are actually awkward imitations of professional charts.

I'd like to scan in a real chart to have it on this page, but that's beyond my capability.

Also, there's another issue that I kind of guessed at: this article previously seemed to confuse a "lyric sheet with chords" as "chord chart," so I kept that in the last paragraph as information about computer files. I just guessed that that's common usage somewhere outside of music in computerland. If I guessed wrong, perhaps the original author could help me out here? CharlesGillingham 10:39, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I've merged in more information about Chord charts, added an example, and fixed all the redirects into here. ---- CharlesGillingham 17:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhythmic notation

I think the term rhythmic notation is used more often to refer to "the way that rhythm is notated" (covered in the article rhythm) rather than "one type of notation in a chord chart", so I think it should be redirected to rhythm rather than here. I'll leave it for now, since I've just done the merge, and someone might be looking for the original article and worry it got axed. Eventually I will fix this.---- CharlesGillingham 17:58, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Done (by someone else, apparently) ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 21:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jazz chart

I added the term "Jazz chart" to the header. I think (but am not 100% sure) that they're the same thing. Anybody know if and how they are different? There's no article on Jazz chart, so I just created a redirect here. However, if they're distinct enough concepts, we could make separate articles. Torc2 (talk) 21:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm certain they are the same thing ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 21:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. Torc2 (talk) 21:32, 7 January 2008 (UTC)