Re: Tremollos

[Alberto Simões]

Olá, Kieren,

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Key points to remember:
>     1. The duration of the note(s), e.g., c32, will determine the 
> duration of the tremolo (e.g., how many beams will be printed).
>     2. The overall length of the resulting tremolo will be the combined 
> duration of the alternating notes (i.e., inside the {} brackets) 
> multiplied by the \repeat parameter -- e.g., \repeat "tremolo" 4 { c32 
> d32 } will be 4 x (2 x 32nd) = 4 x 16th = 1 quarter in duration, as seen 
> in the final template example.

This really helped me. Thanks.

I think it would be nice to add this explanation to the documentation 
file. I was looking into:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Tremolo-repeats.html#Tremolo-repeats

Thanks again, :)
Alberto
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