Hi William; Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. I still don't have the formula down pat, but I'll work on it until it is automatically correct.
Ken On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 5:40 PM William Rehwinkel <will...@williamrehwinkel.net> wrote: > > Hey Kenneth, > > I think you may want to write `\repeat tremolo 4` instead of 2, because > that will signify four repeating eighth notes, which will result in the > time of a half note...unless i am misunderstanding. > > Thanks, > > -William > > On 7/18/22 20:34, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I was able to generate two half-note, single-slashed tremolos in 4/4 > > time using the colon syntax, but do not understand how to get the same > > effect with the repeat tremolo syntax: > > > > \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 | % m01 > > <b d' fs'>2:8 q:8 | % m02 > > > > bar #2 is correct where bar #1 results in the following bar check warning: > > > > Swan_Lake.ly:110:64: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/2 > > \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 > > | % m01 > > > > I'd like to use the repeat tremolo syntax because I'd like midi output > > to reflect the tremolo where the colon syntax is not understood for > > midi output. > > > > I'm apparently not doing the math correctly. > > > > 4/4 time, half notes, two 8th note tremolos > > > > Thanks, > > Ken Wolcott > > -- > William Rehwinkel > > will...@williamrehwinkel.net > https://williamrehwinkel.net > >