Chords and relative notes

2009-05-27 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm confused about something. If you have a chord, followed by either another note or chord that uses ' or , to change the octave, is it relative to the last note of the chord, or to the first? For instance, if I have followed by g', would it go two G's ab

Confused about asterisk notation

2009-05-26 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, I converted a midi to lilypond format, and am trying to make my way through the notation. One of the tracks starts with this: s16*259 16 16 16 s16 16 16 I get that s16, I think, is pretty much equivalent to a 16th rest for that voice? But what's s16*259? Is that a ridiculously short rest, o