Hi Brent,
I'm currently adding chords to some music, and I can't seem to find
anywhere how to create a "Gmsus2" chord name. When I type "g:msus2"
lilypond freaks out, and as far as I can tell, this particular
combination of a minor chord with an added suspension never appears in
the documentation (at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords>
).
I feel like I'm just missing something, is there an easy way to
display this chord type?
It's not very common to ask for Gm-sus2 oder Gm-sus4: The sus2/sus4
replace the third in the chord, so there's no trace of "minor" left.
But you speak of _added_ suspensions: This sounds to me as if you are
looking for Gm-add9 or Gm-add11?
All of these may be forced with chordNameExceptions:
\version "2.22.1"
chExceptionMusic = {
<c f g>1-\markup { m\super "sus4" } % Semi-advisable? :-)
<c d g>1-\markup { m\super "sus2" } % Semi-advisable? :-)
<c es g d'>1-\markup { m\super "add9" }
<c es g f'>1-\markup { m\super "add11" }
}
% Convert music to list and prepend to existing exceptions.
chExceptions = #(append
(sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions chExceptionMusic #t)
ignatzekExceptions)
exampleChords = \relative {
<g' a d> <g c d> <g bes d a'> <g bes d c'>
}
theMusic = {
\mark "Standard"
\exampleChords
\bar "||"
\set chordNameExceptions = #chExceptions
\mark "Custom"
\exampleChords
}
<<
\new ChordNames \theMusic
\new Voice \theMusic
>>
Lukas
