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a possible enhancement
From: |
Don Gingrich |
Subject: |
a possible enhancement |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:35:20 +1100 |
I use Lilypond mostly for song sheets with a melody,
lyrics and guitar chords. On occasion I use Linux tools
to generate an MP3 of the tune to make it easier to
learn to sing a new tune.
Something that would be "nice" would be a way to
specify a guitar rhythm that would repeat the chords
as the midi/mp3 generates.
OK, I can specify
c4 c4 c4 |
f4 f4 g4:7 |
g4:7 c4 c4 |
But this generates a *lot* of stuff above the staff that
contributes nothing to playability.
Normally the above chords would be specified:
c4*3 f2 g2:7 c2
But If an additional section could specify:
|\accent 4 4 4|
So that the chord currently active would play in the
pattern specified -- this would be handy.
The typical pattern for Irish 6/8 is somewhat like
\accent 8 r8 8 \accent 8 r8 8
This may not be something that others would like,
if that's the case, I *can* always write it so that I
have either two sets of chords or, if I want to get
fancy, a guitar part that I only process when generating
mp3s -- that could allow for things like alternating bass
and other options. Still a simple multiple chords per
bar would be useful a lot of the time.
Thanks,
-Don
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- a possible enhancement,
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