The problem has more to do with my lack of music theory and reading
ability than with LilyPond, though I admit a fair amount of ignorance
there too.
In an attempt to add variation to my very, very simple phrase of a
melody -- with the goal of lengthening it beyond 33 seconds, I started
exploring \inversion and am ending up with awful chord names.
The melody sounded good when I used "\inversion bf f' { ... }" on it,
so I blithely applied it to \chordmode, which contained chords like
"d:m/a". This ended up becoming "Bbmb3b13/Gb" and lots of other "13"s
but not many "b13"s "b3"s. (These chords sound "fine" to me, though
I'm sure others might have better aesthetic opinions or better ears.)
Are there simple solutions that will look good and sound "okay"? It
doesn't have to sound exactly the same. If some other inversion would
give me a saner-looking score, I'd entertain the idea. Change key
signatures maybe? I'm using F major for the basic melody. Would
changing the key signature to D minor improve anything?
Thanks.
