About notating an Octave Interval

[xtp]

Over the past weeks I have been muddling through some old notebooks filled with pencil scribbled riffs so I can consign them to score/midi inside Cubase. In a few riffs I use octaves, I looked on the internet but could not really find anything more than a few rank arguments about the notational aspect.

In this example it is C# octave so I called it a C#8.

Do any of you have a specific take on writing octaves?

[BertKoor]

One note doubled in an octave, that's even less than a powerchord. I'd have to look up how to notate a power chord in letters & numbers. (edit: that would be "C# ind" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_chord#Terminology ) It has no name as a chord, since it ain't no chord to begin with.

I'm not sure what trouble you have. Staff & tabs are clear, no trouble to notate it that way. Midi is simular.

[xtp]

I'm not sure what trouble you have. Staff & tabs are clear, no trouble to notate it that way. Midi is simular.

Hi Bert, it's not any kind of issue; I was interested to hear whether, if at all, anyone else has a take on such, or whether a consensus would be simply to leave it as note-values. Just idle curiosity really. Octaves are a guitar thing — Wes Montgomery was a big proponent.

EDIT: maybe my question was redundant. I just had a look at some Wes Montgomery scores, I didn't think of doing that this morning.

[Forgotten]

Look at the chord before and the chord after, and see if there is an implied melody line for each voice. If there is, you should be able to name a chord based on those implied melodies, even if the only vertical notes are tonic and octave.