Re: Slurs and beams

[Graham Percival]

On 23-Dec-04, at 1:48 PM, Karina Aleksandrova wrote:
> I have recently downloaded Lylipond. I don't know musical notation, so
> I've been learning both Lylipond and the musical notation together,
> just going by the way it looks. I have encountered a problem. In the

You may want to do a few google search for an introduction to musical
notation; the manual was written with the assumption that users would
be familiar with notation already.

> original image the two notes had both beam and slur, but Lylipond only
> prints slur. Can you help me firgure out what I'm doing wrong?


> bes[( a])

These notes need to be eighth notes (or faster).

bes8[( a])

However, you probably don't need the manual beams when you've got
eighth notes:
bes8( a)

Cheers,
- Graham