Re: What am I doing wrong???

[Mats Bengtsson]

Michiel Lange wrote:
> (I am not educated very 
> much in english musical terms, but one may recognize the 'I' and 'II' 
> signs in music... someone with some hints? ;-) to speed up learning ) 

Take a look at the glossary included in the LilyPond documentation:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/music-glossary.html

> There's also one more question...
>
> I have one chord that looks like this:
> <<  <d d,>1 ~ \\ { <fis, a>4 <g b>4. <fis a>8 <e g>4 } >> << <d d'>1 \\ 
> <fis a> >>
> The lower "extender" goes right through the notes... should it not be so 
> that it should go under the notes?

Try
<<  d1 ~ \\ d,1 ~ \\ { <fis a>4 <g b>4. <fis a>8 <e g>4 } >> << d'1 \\ 
d,1 \\ <fis a> >>

The reason is that if you have
<<{first voice} \\ {second voice} \\ {third voice} \\ {fourth voice} >>
then the first and third have stems, slurs, ties, ... pointing upwards
whereas they point downwards for the second and fourth voice. Since you
kept the lower d in the first voice, the tie was curved upwards instead
of downwards.

   /Mats