Re: Help with sheet music format

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Nesbitt
<address@hidden> wrote:
> All:
>
> I would like to use Lilypond to generate sheet music that can best be
> described as having 2 distinct  and independent sections. The first - and 
> upper
> section - is simply a list of chords used in the song along with fretboard
> diagrams. The second - lower part - is similar to a lead sheet with chord
> names above the staff and rather than pitches in the staff slashes indicating
> the beats on which there is a chord change. A rough example (less the slashes
> can be found here:
> http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorchVPE.asp?ppn=SC0009216

You are looking for something like this:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets-big-page#Guitar-strum-rhythms

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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