For some reason my replies don't seem to be making back to the user
list. Will try one more time - apologies if this ends up being a
duplicate.
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In my attempt to keep the example trimmed down I ended up leaving out
key details. So I have some stuff back in. And some of the stuff would
be hiding in include files but they are included in this example.
The goal is to have two or more verse/chorus sets of notes. Normally
there would be chord symbols etc. The notes would be backing notes
behind the vocal and I have left the vocal stuff out. The backing notes
can be played on either a standard guitar tuning or on a steel guitar C6
tuning. So depending on the note sequence run, the frets and strings
used would differ depending what instrument they are being played on.
My goal is to define the note sequence once and then fill in any
specific instrument fretting/string details as needed. In this made up
example set of notes I would want the fist measure of the verse and the
first measure of the chorus to use default fretting and strings. The
second measure would want to start on a specific fret and for the last
note to specify a string. Again... just a made up example to demonstrate
what I'm trying to do. Eventually after I get this working some of the
boiler plate stuff would be in include files.
Magnus indicated that << ... >> is not the correct syntax and that {
.... } should be used - but I couldn't get that to work either.
Lucas example works in the case he has but I couldn't quite get it to
work in my case.
Thanks for any other feedback. It's late and I'm probably leaving some
detail out.
\version "2.24.2"
\language "english"
steelGuitarSixStringCSixTuning = \stringTuning <c e g a c' e'>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
bckngNotes = \relative c' {
d,8 e f g a b c d | d, e f g a b c d |
}
gtrBackingNoteDetails = {
s1 |
\set restrainOpenStrings = ##t
\set minimumFret = #3
s2. s4\2 |
}
stlBackingNoteDetails = {
\set Staff.stringTunings = \steelGuitarSixStringCSixTuning
s1 |
\set restrainOpenStrings = ##t
\set minimumFret = #2
s2. s4\2 |
}
verseScore =
<<
<<
\tag #'gtrBackingNotes \context TabStaff = "gtrBackingNotes"
<< \gtrBackingNoteDetails \bckngNotes >>
\tag #'stlBackingNotes \context TabStaff = "stlBackingNotes"
<< \stlBackingNoteDetails \bckngNotes >>
>>
>>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
bckngNotes = \relative c' {
\break e,8 f g a b c d e | e, f g a b c d e
}
gtrBackingNoteDetails = {
s1 |
\set restrainOpenStrings = ##t
\set minimumFret = #3
s2. s4\2 |
}
stlBackingNoteDetails = {
\set Staff.stringTunings = \steelGuitarSixStringCSixTuning
s1 |
\set restrainOpenStrings = ##t
\set minimumFret = #2
s2. s4\2 |
}
chorusScore =
<<
<<
\tag #'gtrBackingNotes \context TabStaff = "gtrBackingNotes"
<< \gtrBackingNoteDetails \bckngNotes >>
\tag #'stlBackingNotes \context TabStaff = "stlBackingNotes"
<<\stlBackingNoteDetails \bckngNotes >>
>>
>>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
fullScore = {
\verseScore
\chorusScore
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\book {
\bookOutputName "Standard Guitar tab"
\score {
<<
\keepWithTag #'(gtrBackingNotes)
\fullScore
>>
}
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\book {
\bookOutputName "Steel Guitar tab"
\score {
<<
\keepWithTag #'(stlBackingNotes)
\fullScore
>>
}
}
