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Re: Defining new chord modifier
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Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: Defining new chord modifier |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:30:29 -0600 |
On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)"
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth,
> like <c g'>
> I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use
> c:5 or c:five
c:5 won't work; c:5 gives a C major triad.
I don't know how hard it would be to define a new modifier :five. I would
not be in favor of accepting such a modifier into the main code base.
The proper modifier for creating it in LilyPond is c:5^3 (which is actually
shorter to type than c:five). One can also use c^3, which is even shorter,
but it has the implied 5 and so may not communicate well in the source code.
> and display C5 in the chord name staff.
>
It requires a simple chord exception.
This has been nicely discussed here (the rock term for what you call a
"quint-chord" is "power chord"):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/14407
HTH,
Carl