Re: Adding space before a group of 4 16th notes

[Graham Percival]

Add space with an invisible rest:
  s4  or   s2

Text below staff: the cheap way is c4_"text".

Both are fairly easy to find the docs.

Cheers,
- Graham


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Fredrik Carlén <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi! I am trying to mimick the appearance of the -- for drummers -- nearly
> obligatory "Stick Control" by G.L. Stone. On Amazon.com you can look inside it
> to see, att page 5, what I am talking about. To be able to discern between
> groups of R's and L's they need to be spaced, along with corresponding group 
> of
> 4 16th notes. I cannot find a way to do this, at least not easily. I am,
> admittedly, a beginner to Lilypond. Another problem I have is how to, in
> drummode, display the letters beneath the 16th note groups -- if I add them as
> lyrics, another staff appears. It seems to me you have to be in some melodic
> mode to add lyrics. Preferably I would like to copy the behaviour of Stick
> Control as closely as possible (as it appears on page 5). I am coding a 
> practice
> program for drummers, but I would like to be able to print out the 
> combinations
> in PDF-form.
>
> If someone could /possibly/ help me, I would give lots of thanks in my final
> program, possibly more (if I ever make a single cent out of it
> ,which is highly doubtful, some of that would certainly be yours!)
>
>
>
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