Re: 2 \tempo command at the same time

[Anton Curl]

In fact I'm transcribing a jazz song for classical musicians. There are tempo changes and also a passage without swing.

So I prefer to stay relatively accurate in the indications and avoid any confusion.

Anton Curl

On 20/03/2015 15:20, Robert Schmaus wrote:

Well you *can* do that (and I've seen it done that way), but often - the music being improvised anyway - you don't really have a tempo indication, except for Swing, Med. Swing, Uptempo Swing, Ballad etc., and those are just suggestions or show how the piece was played in a referenced recording. That's, if we're talking about a lead sheet - look into a "Real Book" for examples.

If it's orchestral music (eg Big Band), the score probably contains more exact tempo values (which my Big Band conductor usually ignores ...). 

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