Re: Repeated notes

[David Sumbler]

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Is there a quick way to write repeated notes?
> > 
> > I know that I can write 
> > 
> > \repeat unfold 8 { bf8 }
> > 
> > instead of 
> > 
> > bf8 bf bf bf bf bf bf bf
> > 
> > 
> > But is there a simpler way?  Perhaps something along the lines of 
> > 
> > bf8*8
> > 
> > (which, as it stands, doesn't work, of course).
> It does work, but you probably don't like its result.

I'm using v.2.19.40, and so far as I can see it only works in the sense
that the compiler doesn't produce an error.

> At any rate, I like
> 
> bf8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
> 
> better.  Particularly useful for percussion, but generally useful for
> rhythmical patterns on the same pitch/chord.  It doesn't save all
> that
> much typing but the result tends to be clearer to read when leaving
> off
> the pitches rather than the lengths.

Agreed, and since this possibility was introduced, I have been using it
quite a lot.

David