Re: Amazing Grace Melody and Guitar Chords

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/5/3 Thermo <address@hidden>:
>
>  Does anyone have a .ly file for Amazing Grace as melody and guitar chords to
>  share?

You might want to have a look at this ABC search engine:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=amazing+grace

And then use abc2ly, and then... oh, the hell with it. Here you are:


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\version "2.11.46"
\header {
        tagline = "Lily was here 2.11.45 -- automatically converted from ABC"
        title = "Amazing grace"
}
voiceB =  {
  c'8    f'8     f'2  \times 2/3 {   a'8.    g'16    f'8  }
a'2    a'8    g'8     f'2    d'4     c'2    c'8    f'8
   f'2  \times 2/3 {   a'8.    g'16    f'8  }    a'2    g'8
a'8     c''2.   ~       c''2      a'8    c''8     c''2
\times 2/3 {   a'8.    g'16    f'8  }    a'2    a'8    g'8
f'2    d'4     c'2    c'8    f'8     f'2  \times 2/3 {   a'8.
 g'16    f'8  }    a'2    g'4     f'2.  \bar "||"
}
voiceC =  {
  s8    a8     a2  \times 2/3 {   c'8.    bes16    a8  }
c'2    c'8    bes8     d'2    bes4     a2    a8    a8
  a2  \times 2/3 {   c'8.    bes16    a8  }    c'2    bes8    a8
   e'2.   ~       e'2      c'8    a8     a2
\times 2/3 {   c'8.    bes16    a8  }    c'2    c'8    bes8
d'2    bes4     a2    a8    a8     a2  \times 2/3 {   c'8.
bes16    a8  }    c'2    bes4     a2.  \bar "||"
}
voiceD =  {
  r4    f,2.   ~       f,2.     bes,2.     f,2.
  ~       f,2.   ~       f,2.     c2.     c2
  c4     f,2.   ~       f,2.     bes,2.
f,2.   ~       f,2.     c,2.     f,2.  \bar "||"
}
voicedefault =  {
\time 3/4 % %staves {(1 2) 3}
 \key f \major
 \partial 4
}

\score{ \transpose c d

  \new PianoStaff
    <<
        \context Staff="1"
        {
            \voicedefault
      << \voiceB \voiceC >>
        }

        \context Staff="3"
        {
            \voicedefault
      \clef bass
            \voiceD
        }
    >>
        \layout {
        }
        \midi {}
}

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Please don't forget to submit it to mutopiaproject.org so anyone can
find it easily in the future.


Cheers,
Valentin