Frédéric Fanchamps <frederic.fancha...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > I'm using Lilypond to write traditional folk music for diatonic > accordion. > On that kind of instrument you have the melody (done with the right > hand) and the bass and chords done by the left hand. > Typically the melody is written as a normal score and the left hand > (bass and chord) is written like this: uppercase letter for chords and > lower case for chords. > Let's say you want a C bass, then a C major chord, then a G bass and > then a G major chord, under the score you find: > C c G g > More "complex" things such as mixed bass and chords have also their > convention: chord of F bass of D is written like: f/D
Sounds more like chromatic/unisonoric accordion to me. For diatonic, I have rarely seem anything but "Griffschrift". > I wonder what is the best way to write it with Lilypond? There is no really convincing builtin support right now. For neither of the two, actually. > Adding the chords with \chords is no problem but then I can't indicate > when is it bass only and when is it chord. c:1 is a single note in Midi, but the chord transcription will not distinguish it from the chord and it will not sound in a lower octave. There have been discussions on the developer group about mixed chord/note modes: those would be nice here. There is also likely a lot one could do with music functions. There is an issue <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=559> which would correspond with your request (as your request is really coinciding with chromatic accordion notation rather than the diatonic transcriptions I know). But nobody has worked on it so far. > Adding this notation as pure text is possible but I would find very > pity to not get the midi file and to make transpose impossible. Indeed. > Finally, if it would be possible to note "no chord" as a normal rest > of the correct duration instead of N.C. it would be great. Maybe someone else can make a suggestion for this item? -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user