Re:The Real Book
by cratermoon on Friday January 27, 2023 @07:26PM
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I have a collection of real/fakebooks. I studied guitar enough to learn about charts and you can indeed perform from just the chart, though you might not replicate the original performance. Of course, in jazz, improvisation is expected anyway, so as long as you have the changes, the key(s), the meter, and a simple melody line, a band can sound fine. Here for example is John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" https://imgur.com/g633n8b
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I think it’s the first time I see ma/mi as an indicator of major/minor chord. Why there’s so many standards for that?
I recently found an open music theory book (I think I found it from the r/musictheory subreddit). I haven't read it yet but it talks about this.
https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/int...
Under the Accessibility section:
> We use some less-standard terminology to help readers who use screen readers; in particular, we never use a capital/lowercase letter M to distinguish major and minor qualities, and instead use the abbreviations “ma” and “mi.” Hopefully this nomenclature will become more common over time.