Re: display chords (Ami7(b5))

[Shamus]

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Hi David,

You're very welcome. :-) BTW, while that will work you still have to put
a \popChords thing into your chord block, so it's still not 100%
automatic the way language files are. If someone could tell me how to
make this happen I'd be more than happy to code it. :-)

Warmest regards,

- -- Shamus


David Stocker wrote:
> Thanks Shamus, this is great.
> 
> Incidentally, if you store a copy of "pop-chords.ly" in your lilypond's
> usr/share/lilypond/current/ly folder (or somewhere else in LilyPond's
> path) you can call it using \include just like the language-settings
> files (i.e. without having to put a copy of it in your current working
> directory).
> 
> I will get much use from this.
> 
> Shamus wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>  
>>>> Tim McNamara wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>> Tim McNamara wrote:
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>> On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher
>>>>>>>> (e.g. b5 or #5)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> for example
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Am7(b5)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> D7(#5)
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> I just asked this same question a couple of weeks ago.  The standard
>>>>>>> way would be:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Am7(b5) for two beats  =  a2:m7.5-   which will render as Aø
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      D7(#5) for four beats  =  d1:7.5+   which will render as D7/#5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can do #9 or b9, etc. this way.  All the altered notes will be
>>>>>>> preceded by a slash except the major 7th, m7b5 and diminished chords
>>>>>>> which are denoted by a delta, diminished sign or half-diminished
>>>>>>> sign respectively.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are other options for rendering the chords which involve
>>>>>>> setting up a file of chord markups.  For more information, look in
>>>>>>> the mailing list archives for the thread "Hello! and question about
>>>>>>> jazz chords" for more details.  The thread started 10 Feb 2009.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah it would be nice if jazz chords will be improved in Lilypond,
>>>>>> like it was suggested in the link you gave...
>>>>>>         
>>>>> Well, the jazz chord rendering follows a set of conventions, just not
>>>>> the ones established at Berklee and in the Real Book.  There's really
>>>>> nothing wrong with it except that it's not what most jazz musicians
>>>>> will expect (and the slash is a bit confusing- "is the #5 in the
>>>>> bass?").   But I've been handed lots of charts at rehearsals with the
>>>>> chords rendered the way LilyPond does it.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>> No nothing wrong at all. But maybe it is nice to have both (different)
>>>> options to display the chords...
>>>>     
> 
> This has been a contentious issue for me as well--while in the past the
> chord rendering was really awful, the situation *is* much improved today
> now that it is possible to override the defaults. Also, there just
> doesn't seem to be much agreement on how chords should be rendered even
> in category subsets like jazz or pop for that matter.
> 
> So my solution has been to maintain a separate file with chord
> definitions that I like (side note: it would be nice to be able to
> simply include the file and get results that you expect, much like when
> you include a language file). I'm including mine here so you can get an
> idea of how it's done and how to use it (mebbe I should post this on
> LSR?).
> 
> Perhaps in the future the authors might make a contrib folder for a
> whole bunch of different chord styles and make it as easy to use as
> including the right file. I don't know how much work would be involved,
> but it seems like it would go a long way towards alleviating these kinds
> of posts that inevitably crop up as more and more people discover that
> they can do really nice lead sheets with lilypond. :-)
> 
> -- Shamus
> 

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