Re: Chordmode Needs Work

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

As a jazz player I'm finding that I like the chord names in lp, BUT I have
found that you have to use note entry in a ChordNames context, and give up
trying to enter the names with text.  So to get a dominant seventh chord
with a sharped 9th, name, enter the notes (assuming english.ly) <c e g bf
ds'>, this will render the name you are asking for.  I created my own .ly
include file of all the chords plus ones that are unique to me and all the
generated names have been acceptable.  Also transposition is a breeze with
notes.  And now I find working with note clusters instead of names is
working out better musician-ship-wise.  I was glad to see that the lp chord
names do NOT misuse the + symbol as many other programs mistakenly use that
to apply a maj 7 instead of dominant 7, I believe + should only be used to
designate augmented 5th, but some programs erroneously use it to override a
dom 7.  The whole world of fake book chord naming is so un-standardized and
hog-wild that I think adopting the Itzhack(sp) chords are worthwhile.

At some point I will post my chording templates which are working well for
me, after I extend the guitar fretboards to recognize \tranpose. 
(Unfortunately I only know Visual Basic so my fretboard transpose routine
will only work on Windows.)

Rick



S L Raymond wrote:
> 
> I'm still frustrated with chord name entry.  Since I upgraded to 2.6, I
> lost the ability to place a 7#9 chord in a lead sheet.  This is a common
> chord in jazz!  What's the solution?
> 
> I checked the regression tests page, and there's no mention of that
> specific chord type.  
> 
> I was a loyal Lilypond user, primarily because its compatibility with
> LaTeX greatly facilitates the production of compilations of annotated
> music, and music textbooks and articles.  But if I continue having these
> difficulties with chord entry, I may have to begin printing all my lead
> sheets with Sibelius.  Why can't Lilypond have the same intuitive chord
> markup language utilized by Sibelius?  Is there a good reason I can't
> simply type "C:7#9"? 
> 
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