Re: chord with notes of different duration

[Tim Rowe]

On 6 October 2010 23:47, Marc Mouries <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On 10/6/2010 6:24 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>>> 3) why a skip is needed whereas the top note is a half note (otherwise
>>> the measure is not complete)?
>>
>> If you make the note a half note, but tweak the other notes' durations (to
>> become quarters), you won't have this problem.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> Kieren.
>
> i'm not sure to understand. The bottom notes are already quarters and the
> top note already a half-note.
> Would you mind elaborating?

You've made the whole thing look like a quarter-note to Lilypond, but
persuaded it to show *you* the top note as a half-note. As far as
Lilypond is concerned, it's still a quarter note but printed "wrongly"
so it looks like a half-note. It still only occupies the time duration
of a quarter note, so the bar would be missing a quarter note without
the skip.

Marc's suggestion is to do it the other way around and make the whole
thing look to Lilypond like a half-note, so the timing is all just
fine, but tell it to print the /lower/ notes "wrongly" so they look
like quarter-notes.

Does that make it clearer?

-- 
Tim Rowe