Re: Again: Alignment of bars

[Daniel Hulme]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:55:33PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> precisely. [From my engraving classes way back when, I seem to recall 
> that it's harder for musicians to read systems that are aligned 
> precisely, since the eye gets confused about which line to be following.]

I can confirm from experience that this is true. Percussion parts are
often very uniform, and one of the pieces I've been playing recently
with my band has four bars per system all the way through the piece,
with the music uniform enough to make the bars line up. I ended up four
bars behind everyone else last week because I played the same system
twice. (There were three consecutive identical systems.)

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