The type of notation provided by my notation program is fantastic. But it takes for ever. And I can't print chords unless I put them in by hand, or use a text field to paste them above the line.

So in the end, because I want only a melody and chord, Band in a Box gives me better charts. The missing things I add in with a cylindrical ink resevoir and sporting a custom tip. Depending on the type of addition I use red or blue to make the thing truly eyepopping. My wife then puts the wee commas in for breath marks with a pencil, because she thinks sometimes she should change the breathing pattern.


John Conley
Musica est vita