I almost never use open strings even with first position chords when playing
jazz. There are a few Jim Hall-ish situations that are exceptions to this.
On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Peter Crighton <petecrigh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2013/4/22 Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com>:
>> 2013/4/22 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>
>>>
>>> Kale Good <k...@kalegood.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> \set TabStaff.minimumFret Fails on open strings.
>>>>
>>>> On Ubuntu 12.04, Lilypond 2.16.2. Running lilypond through
>>>> lilypondtool.
>>>>
>>>> \new TabStaff \relative c {
>>>> \set TabStaff.minimumFret = #5
>>>> c16 d e f g4
>>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#index-restrainOpenStrings>
>>>
>>> "Even when minimumFret is set, open strings are used whenever
>>> possible. This behaviour can be changed by setting restrainOpenStrings
>>> to #t."
>>
>>
>> This question may confirm my idea that people don't expect to have open
>> strings by default when setting minimumFret:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2013-01/msg00033.html
>
> I was also very surprised to see that option being the default. It
> might be more useful in classical guitar music, I don’t know about
> that. But in rock/pop/jazz music I almost never would use open strings
> when playing in higher frets.
>
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