Re: Banjo part is relative but shouldn't be

[Graham Percival]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I'm writing a song with a banjo accompaniment. The melody line is relative and 
> comes out correct. The banjo line, since it jumps all over the strings, I 
> write in absolute notation, but Lily writes it as relative and goes all the 
> way up to the 64th fret. How do I fix this?

If you don't want it to be relative, don't put it inside a \relative! 
For information about the file structure, see doc sections 3.2 and 3.3.

>   { \relative <<
...
>     { \set TabStaff.tablatureFormat=#fret-number-tablature-format-banjo
>       \set TabStaff.stringTunings=#banjo-open-g-tuning \banjo
>       }
>     >>
>     }

See?

Cheers,
- Graham