I agree with what you’re saying here, but I will say that traditional notation is a bit annoying for jazz …
… where, typically, each bar is only using 7 notes out of 12, but which 7 is changing almost every bar. You could, in principle, write this as a key signature per bar, but what people usually do is keep the same key signature throughout, use lots of sharps and flats, and write which chord it is over the bar
.. oh, and maybe you’re really playing it as swung 1⁄8 ths notes, but it would be too tedious to write the actual durations, so just write it like it’s straight 1/8th notes and put a notation that the whole thing is swing, actually.
I actually think that last one just sounds straightforwardly (hah) right? Note shapes express subdivisions of duration that correspond to common rhythmic structures of music, so if jazz music often uses an uneven subdivision at one level but follows the broad structure otherwise, then skewing the meaning of that level in the note shapes is bending the map toward the logical shape of the territory.
I agree with what you’re saying here, but I will say that traditional notation is a bit annoying for jazz …
… where, typically, each bar is only using 7 notes out of 12, but which 7 is changing almost every bar. You could, in principle, write this as a key signature per bar, but what people usually do is keep the same key signature throughout, use lots of sharps and flats, and write which chord it is over the bar
.. oh, and maybe you’re really playing it as swung 1⁄8 ths notes, but it would be too tedious to write the actual durations, so just write it like it’s straight 1/8th notes and put a notation that the whole thing is swing, actually.
I actually think that last one just sounds straightforwardly (hah) right? Note shapes express subdivisions of duration that correspond to common rhythmic structures of music, so if jazz music often uses an uneven subdivision at one level but follows the broad structure otherwise, then skewing the meaning of that level in the note shapes is bending the map toward the logical shape of the territory.