accidentals
Patrick M. Howard ( (no email) )
Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:53:31 -0500
Can someone please tell me what the standard way of notating accidentals is
? I've always thought that when you have a sharp or flat for a given note
it applies to all notes on that same line for all subsequent measures until
there's a natural indicated. I'm studying a transcription of Coltrane's
solo on "So What" (from the Coltrane solo book from Hal Leonard pub's).
Maybe these are simple oversights, but I'm seeing things like 1) a sharp
sign on the same note for two consecutive measures, and 2)a natural sign on
a "B" when a "B" an octave lower in a previous measure had been flat. Both
things are consistent with what I'm hearing, but the notation is confusing.
Pat Howard