If a song is VERY easy, I might write repeat signs or write V C V etc., but if it's difficult, or especially if I'm writing for a live show rather than a session (I find more pressure at a live performance, and even more so at a live radio or tv show, because you can't "punch."), I write it all out.

The post about the number system part 3:

http://www.justplainfolks.org/ubb/Forum60/HTML/000004.html

at the ninth paragraph, explains how we delineate time.

Different players write a chord with a specific bass note in different ways. I print my charts out by hand, with my purple Pentel .09 mechanical pencil (the best inexpensive mechanical pencil made [are you listening, Pentel? I sure could use a case of 'em.]) So I just write the chord number directly over the bass number. I don't use the slash for the same reason you mention. However, I have no idea how one would type that, or how any of the programs for the number system handle that. I chart by hand.

All the Best,
Mike

P.S. If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to type a number chart, or gave me a LOT of money to do it (the ONLY two reasons why I would type one rather than do it by had) I'd simply write 2dim for a Supertonic Diminished...in your example, I'd call it a b3dim7 That is, if someone put a gun to my head or gave me a LOT of money.


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