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  • Jake Barnes

    The bottom of the staff? That would be non-standard and confusing I think. 

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  • GeorgeStearns58

    If you have a flute part in which the notes go above the staff, the measure numbers and the notes do not play well together, and thus, it is preferable to have the measure numbers on the bottom

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  • jdwambach

    I want this too! It is standard practice in jazz for the measure numbers to go on the bottom. How can I move them?

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  • Sample Texta

    Im making music for a flute I WANT THIS NOW!!!!

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  • Jake Barnes

    I don’t know what you mean by “in jazz”. Music notation in jazz is normally confined to either lead sheets (for combos) or big-band scores. Big-band scoring follows conventional classical-music practice for rehearsal letters and numbers, and lead sheets don’t use rehearsal letters or niumbers at all. Re: flute parts, or any parts with a lot of ledger lines: The way to deal with this is either to put the measures numbers even higher or use them less frequently.

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  • jdwambach

    Hi Jake, besides being pretty condescending, you're just wrong about big band charts. The convention is to put measure numbers on the bottom (see example below). I made this comment because I won a jazz composition competition and the formatting requirements were very specific in order to be in line with standard jazz notation. Instead of being dismissive, you could instead ask yourself what's the harm in allowing users to move measure numbers to the bottom of the measure. It would help a lot of people and hurt no one.

    Regards,

    John

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