Don - You're suggesting that Pavane probably doesn't need to notate more than an 8-fret reach for most guitarists?

The simple notation used by most of the people I hang with, just places the name of the chord (e.g. E⁷ or similar) above the staff.

The perhaps most common "next step" is the little "fret diagrams" that go with the chord beside the chord name. There may be people who actually rely on these diagrams, but I don't know any of them. My gitterist friends tell me they're always a "less than best" fingering.

I'm suspecting that Pavane's intention is to actually notate the individual notes of the chord(?).

It would seem that the notes have to be put in the score in order for an automatic midi playback to know to play them, but for most guitarists having all those notes may be more confusing than helpful on the score page they play from.

Some programs I've seen allow you to (*optionally) put the notes for the midi play back in as "hidden" so that they don't show on the printed score. The option for programs that don't allow "non-printing but playable" notes is to put them in a separate "voice" on a different stave.

* The "option" to put non-printing notes in the score implies the option to choose whether or not to "play hidden notes" when you play back what you've written - usually.

John