Hi there, I'm at work and don't really have much time.I just wanna state that I presented my problem with a reduced sheet. The problem was regarding the chord durations and not with the melody. I'm a software engineer and this is how I post questions to reduce the chance of confusion.
I have posted my complete sheet in a different thread on this mailing list. My subject was "Lilypond - chord progression". Also, yes, this is my first project with lilypond. I think my goal is to create sheets similar to what you have in books like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Unplugged-New-York-Guitar-School/dp/0793544130/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251991185&sr=8-3 You can look inside here to see what I'm talking about. QQ, do you think lilypond can produce that? Regards, Christian On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara<tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: > >> Tim McNamara wrote: >>> >>> I am a guitarist. >>> >>> If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a >>> better approach. Or even a word processor two write out the chords like >>> Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book. >>> >>> http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html >>> >>> Christian's trying to do something LilyPond is not designed to do when >>> what he really needs is a lead sheet, if he wants to use LilyPond without a >>> lot of kerfuffling around. I've sent him information about this >>> back-channel. >> >> I agree it would be silly to use lilypond just to generate something like: >> >> >> || C7/ / / | C / / / | C / / / | C / / / | >> | F / / / | F / / / | C / / / | C / / / | >> | G7 / / / | F / / / C / / / | C / / / || >> >> But what if it was only one of the outputs from the music, which also >> generated tab and sheet music, and midi? While you're already using the >> data to generate the other useful forms, what you be wrong with using it to >> generate charts, which are a very commonly used thing in the jazz world? > > If there is a way to create a standard score for a jazz/rock/pop tune and > from that to generate different outputs (lead sheet, tab, chord chart with > lyrics, etc.), that's fine. I don't know any way to do the last one. I > don't use tab- sheet music is easier to read by far- so I've never done > anything with that in LilyPond, although I know the facility is there. > > I play jazz/blues/some rock on guitar and use LilyPond to create lead sheets > (a.k.a. "charts"). I've never turned up to a jazz session or a gig and been > presented with just a chord chart. I am always given a lead sheet with the > melody on the staff and the chords above (or sometimes written over the bass > staff instead which is hard to read, usually in vocal books) and often with > lyrics below the staff. The only place I have seen jazz chord charts as > such is on Ralph Patt's Web site. Those are intended for reference to > correct the Real Books (which frequently have erroneous changes) and not to > be played from. > > My point was that LilyPond expects there to be notes on a staff in the > input. If you don't put them in, then you're going to have trouble getting > LilyPond to do much of anything. It is a *music engraving* application and > by definition that is staves with notes (at least in Western music). From > Christian's questions and comments, it seemed to me that he did not > understand the intended use of LilyPond and is trying to get it to do > something that (1) it is not designed to do and (2) could be much more > easily done with pencil and paper or a word processor. I certainly could be > misunderstanding his intent. > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user