Mahalo. I'll investigate.
J.
On 5/26/19 20:34, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 26 May 2019, at 22:35, John Helly <hel...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Aloha.
>>
>> I'm writing a song for guitar and vocal that has the structure below. I
>> would like to add 12 bars of strumming guitar as an Intro but cannot figure
>> out how to add it within the Staff since it doesn't have a melody, only
>> strumming of the chords.
>>
>> I've been trying to figure out how to add this as a Voice
>> (\Song.Voice.Intro) but can't seem to find the secret sauce or maybe that's
>> the wrong approach?
>>
>> Mahalos.
>> J.
>>
>> *************************
>> <<
>> \chords{ \theChords \theChords \theChords }
>> \new Staff {
>> \key a \minor
>> \new Voice = "intro" { \Song.Voice.Intro \break }
>> \new Voice = "verse" { \Song.Voice.Verse \bar "||" }
>> \new Voice = "chorus" { \Song.Voice.Chorus \bar "||" }
>> \new Voice = "outro" { \Song.Voice.Outro \bar ":|." }
>> }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseI }
>> \new Lyrics
>> <<
>> \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseII }
>> \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
>> >>
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIII }
>> \new Lyrics
>> <<
>> \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIV }
>> \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
>> >>
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseV }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "outro" { \Song.Lyrics.Outro }
>> *********************
> Have you had a look here?
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/rhythms
>
> Search for the section marked “Guitar strum rhythms”.
>
> Michael
>
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