Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread John Helly
Merci, Pierre. That succeeded in moving the chord names down to the 5th measure (2nd system? Not sure of proper term here).  However, it made me realize that all I had to do was add more chords to the Chords block and voila! Mahalo. J. -- Univers

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread John Helly
Mahalo.  Understand. J. On 6/10/19 00:57, Simon Albrecht wrote: > As a small aside, metadata you sent links this e-mail to a thread > about part names running off the page. Please make sure you keep > topics separated into their own threads by not replying to unrelated > messages and instead compo

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi John, Le lun. 10 juin 2019 à 01:35, John Helly a écrit : > [...] However, I'm now stuck > trying to get the guitar chords to appear over each measure of the > verses and chorus. > > Chords = \new ChordNames { > \chords { > } > } > [...] > Try:

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
As a small aside, metadata you sent links this e-mail to a thread about part names running off the page. Please make sure you keep topics separated into their own threads by not replying to unrelated messages and instead composing new e-mails from scratch. Best, Simon ___

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread John Helly
he chorus to no avail. J. On 6/9/19 17:12, Tim McNamara wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 2019, at 6:32 PM, John Helly wrote: >> >> Aloha. >> >> With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten >> this guitar and vocal piece to score

Re: [Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread Tim McNamara
> On Jun 9, 2019, at 6:32 PM, John Helly wrote: > > Aloha. > > With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten > this guitar and vocal piece to score reasonably. However, I'm now stuck > trying to get the guitar chords to appear o

[Lilypond] How to get guitar chords to appear at each bar

2019-06-09 Thread John Helly
Aloha. With various suggestions that I'm very grateful for, I've mostly gotten this guitar and vocal piece to score reasonably.  However, I'm now stuck trying to get the guitar chords to appear over each measure of the verses and chorus.  I've tried a variety of things but th

Re: adding common guitar chords

2017-02-15 Thread Julien Cubizolles
Federico Bruni writes: > Hi Julien > > This is another (simpler) way. I've commented with % what is not needed: > > \version "2.19.54" > %\include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly" > > myChords = \relative { > \set minimumFret = #3 > 1 > } > > << > \new ChordNames { >\chordmode { g1 } >

Re: adding common guitar chords

2017-02-15 Thread Julien Cubizolles
David Kastrup writes: > We have the required information in predefined fretboards. Maybe we > should have a general function for substituting chords with the > predefined shapes rather than only do that as part of fretboard display. Yes, that would be nice :-) Julien. ___

Re: adding common guitar chords

2017-02-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno dom 12 feb 2017 alle 22:16, Julien Cubizolles ha scritto: Hello list, I'm very new to lilypond so please forgive me if what I'm asking is obvious but I needed to type some chords commonly used on a guitar: for instance a g major chord using all 6 chords would be played with fingers a

Re: adding common guitar chords

2017-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Klaus Blum writes: > Hi Julien, > > Julien Cubizolles wrote >> Is there a way to define >> such a chord and name it (with the "full" suffix for example) so that in >> chordmode one could use g:full, c:full and so on ? > > you can define your chord by assembling the six "real" pitches: > > % ---

Re: adding common guitar chords

2017-02-13 Thread Klaus Blum
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adding common guitar chords

2017-02-13 Thread Julien Cubizolles
Hello list, I'm very new to lilypond so please forgive me if what I'm asking is obvious but I needed to type some chords commonly used on a guitar: for instance a g major chord using all 6 chords would be played with fingers at frets 355433 (from the bass). In chord mode, I could only achieve it wi

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread David Bellows
>For sure, the code you sent is not the one you've compiled. Oops. I have so many files open that in spite of my efforts to keep everything straight and send the correct one I still sent the wrong one. Anyway, as I mentioned in my previous email I found the solution to the problem. On Fri, Aug 15

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread David Bellows
n in this project. > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Abraham Lee > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Bellows >> wrote: >> >> Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds >> including various ways of creating sc

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, 2014-08-15 22:40 GMT+02:00 David Bellows : > Wow, that looks so much better. I've attached the pdf of what happens > when I compile the code (wasn't sure if that was allowed on the list). > And yeah, I don't get a warning when I compile it. I guess something > has changed from 2.18 to 2

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread Abraham Lee
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Bellows wrote: Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming patter

Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello David, 2.18.2 behaves nicely with this example, though. JM Am 15.08.2014 um 22:24 schrieb David Bellows : > Hello all, > > I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including > various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce >

Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

2014-08-15 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming patterns by generating a Lilypond file. I'm currently using the ra

Re: Space between staff and guitar chords

2009-05-17 Thread GJO
ilypond-user > > Thank you for the advice. I think I now have the chords as low as they can go down. Regards Graham -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Space-between-staff-and-guitar-chords-tp23573686p23581645.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list ar

Re: Space between staff and guitar chords

2009-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kulp
GJO wrote: I have trawled around and can not find how to lower the space between a guitar chord letter, not symbol, and the top of the music lines. Any advice? Thanks Here's a snippet I created a while back that does what I think you're asking for: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=537

Space between staff and guitar chords

2009-05-16 Thread GJO
I have trawled around and can not find how to lower the space between a guitar chord letter, not symbol, and the top of the music lines. Any advice? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Space-between-staff-and-guitar-chords-tp23573686p23573686.html Sent from the Gnu

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-20 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: > As a guitarist, I would call this chord B5/A, because it without the > third, it isn't really > a minor chord - but this depends on the context. > > Just a thought. It's not me who found out the chord name, anyway you are right, yes.

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-16 Thread Marc Hohl
First, currently the output has "Bm" for my chord, but actually I would like to have it as 'Bm \super "omit3"/A'. (No, I don't really mind about the midi output. :) ) As a guitarist, I would call this chord B5/A, because it without the third, it isn't really a minor chord - but this

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 4/15/09 10:51 AM, "Miklos Vajna" wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a sample: > > > \version "2.12.1" > > \score { > << > \chords { > e1:sus4 g e:m b:m > } > \relative c' > { > e8. > ^\markup \fret-diagram

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Robin Bannister wrote: > Like this? (verbatim) > > replaceCN = #(define-music-function (parser location new) (markup?) > #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = > #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob $new)) #}) > > BmsusA =

Re: Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Robin Bannister
Miklos Vajna wrote: First, currently the output has "Bm" for my chord, but actually I would like to have it as 'Bm \super "omit3"/A'. Like this? (verbatim) replaceCN = #(define-music-function (parser location new) (markup?) #{\once \override ChordNames.ChordName #'stencil = #(lambda (g

Custom guitar chords

2009-04-15 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi, Here is a sample: \version "2.12.1" \score { << \chords { e1:sus4 g e:m b:m } \relative c' { e8. ^\markup \fret-diagram #"f:2;6-o;5-o;4-2-2;3-2-3;2-o;1-o;" e16( e8) e8 e16 d e8 r4 | e

Re: Amazing Grace Melody and Guitar Chords

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Scott
On May 2, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Thermo wrote: Does anyone have a .ly file for Amazing Grace as melody and guitar chords to share? Here's another version. amazinggraceGa.ly includes amazinggracenotesa.;y You can easily have it in any key by changing the two \transpose comman

Re: Amazing Grace Melody and Guitar Chords

2008-05-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/5/3 Thermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone have a .ly file for Amazing Grace as melody and guitar chords to > share? You might want to have a look at this ABC search engine: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=amazing+grace And then use abc2ly, and then.

Amazing Grace Melody and Guitar Chords

2008-05-02 Thread Thermo
Does anyone have a .ly file for Amazing Grace as melody and guitar chords to share? Thank you -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Amazing-Grace-Melody-and-Guitar-Chords-tp17031870p17031870.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: guitar chords

2007-10-02 Thread Eyolf Østrem
On 02.10.2007 (09:57), Zoltan Kota wrote: > Hi, > > I'm newbie here. I have just started to learn lilypond. It looks very nice > (altough it needs some time to learn syntax, commands and tricks). :-) > > Is it possible to add guitar chords above a staff (accompanying guit

guitar chords

2007-10-02 Thread Zoltan Kota
Hi, I'm newbie here. I have just started to learn lilypond. It looks very nice (altough it needs some time to learn syntax, commands and tricks). :-) Is it possible to add guitar chords above a staff (accompanying guitar chords for a vocal)? Like Em, D, C, H, etc. I have played with \c

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-22 Thread Colin Wilding
Silly me, I have just realised that you started both threads! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Guitar+Chords-t1540476.html#a4505196 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-22 Thread Colin Wilding
g a bit of a > challege. Any suggestions > > Nick > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Guitar+Ch

Re: Musical notation of guitar chords.

2006-05-05 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
rkup shown above make sure the Lyric Text context sets the word spacing to a small value like .1 otherwise the letters will be too spread out. LyricText #'word-space=0.1 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Musical-notation-of-guitar-chords.-t1561237.html#a4255157 Sent from

Re: Musical notation of guitar chords.

2006-05-04 Thread Nick
This is the nearest thing I could figure out. It shows what I am trying to get at, but I would rather use \chords or \ChordNames -- \version "2.8.1" { \key c \major << 8 ^\markup \fret-diagram #"6-x;5-3;4-2;3-o;2-1;1-o;" ^\markup{ \fontsize #6 \bold C } >> << 8 ^\markup \fret-diagram #"6-1;5-1;4

Musical notation of guitar chords.

2006-05-04 Thread Nick
Attempting to make myself a practice sheet. I cant seem to put chord names above the fret diagrams. Any suggestions ? \version "2.8.1" { \key c \major ^\markup \fret-diagram #"6-x;5-3;4-2;3-o;2-1;1-o;" ^\markup \fret-diagram #"6-1;5-1;4-3;3-2;2-2;1-1;" \key c \major ^\markup \fret-diagram #"6-

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-02 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
g all may backlogged arrangements similarly. So I have complete control over the chord names. I'm a new LP user. I'll be adding a polyphony staff too once I get the bass line rhythm worked out, right now it only shows a melody line. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%

Re: Guitar Chords

2006-05-02 Thread Ed Ardzinski
Chord Mode apparently has little utility in actually scoring notes, unless you want to use block chords. You could try to use fret diagrams with markup, or I think you are stuck manually scoring your chords on a staff. Even if "six" note chords could be specified it would still be restrictive.

Guitar Chords

2006-05-01 Thread Nick
I am trying to put some of my favorite songs on the guitar into lilypond. I noticed that the \chordmode creates 3 note (Piano ?) chords. Is there a way to force it to do 6 note chords by default? Is anyone out there using this for guitar (pop) music. I would like to hear how detailed you have gott

classical notation for barre guitar chords

2005-11-16 Thread Kai Gorlich
Hi all, I would like to write classical guitar music and am looking for a way to include a vertical line spanning either the complete staff or parts of it, to be placed in front of a chord or the first note of it, indicating a barre chord in the left hand. Is there any way? Cheers Kai _

Re: Guitar: clef for classical Guitar notation / barr guitar chords

2005-11-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you look in the section on Clefs in the manual? /Mats Kai Gorlich wrote: Hi all, first of all many thanks for this great software. In classcial guitar notation the clef C bears an 8 directly attached to it to show that the instrument is noted an octave lower than it sounds. Is there

Guitar: clef for classical Guitar notation / barr guitar chords

2005-11-14 Thread Kai Gorlich
Hi all, first of all many thanks for this great software. In classcial guitar notation the clef C bears an 8 directly attached to it to show that the instrument is noted an octave lower than it sounds. Is there a clef in the repository? I managed to work out the fingering but is there a way t

Capoed guitar chords

2004-11-14 Thread David A. Rogers
It is common in our church music to have both normal chords and the capoed versions (when necessary) in the music. The capoed chords are in parenthesis. I have figured out how to have both sets of chords over the staff, but I haven't figured out how to put parenthesis around the capoed chords. I

Guitar Chords in Tab

2004-07-31 Thread Lyle Raymond
New Question: following is a short lilypond script which ought to illustrate the fingering for an e-form A major chord. After rendering, I get a block of tab fingerings with a large stem running through it. How do I avoid this? .lp code follows: --v 1 \score