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Re: Guitar charts with custom chord names/grids


From: Rob Torop
Subject: Re: Guitar charts with custom chord names/grids
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:11:05 +0000

Thomas, I didn't get any content in with your note.  Looking forward to seeing what you did!  Thanks.

On Mon Dec 22 2014 at 1:08:49 PM Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
2014-12-22 15:48 GMT+01:00 Rob Torop <address@hidden>:
> I'm trying to create something like this:
>
> Chord names (not grids) above the first staff
> One normal staff
> One guitar tab staff underneath it (same melody as in staff above)
> Lyrics underneath the guitar tab
> Chord grids printed just once at bottom
>
> I would also like to define my own chord voicings with custom names - that
> is, I don't want to give an alternative voicing for E, but instead make up a
> new name like EBlah, and have EBlah appear in the chart and in the chord
> grid. I might have multiple voicings that are all really E so it doesn't
> work to just re-use E.
>
> I can find bits and pieces of this, but I can't make anything really work.
> Here's one this I tried:
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly"
>
>
> chordNames = \chordmode { c1:m7 ees1:maj7 }
>
> melody         = \relative c'    { c2 f4 bes,4 ees aes, des ges, }
>
> verse            =  \lyricmode  {  I met a fair young maiden }
>
>
> \score {
>
>   <<
>
>     \new ChordNames \chordNames
>
>     \new FretBoards \chordNames
>
>     \new Staff \melody
>
>     \addlyrics \verse
>
>     \new TabStaff \melody
>
>   >>
>
> }


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