Re: chord durations

[Tim McNamara]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote:

> Tim McNamara wrote:
> > On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Christian Henning wrote:
> >
> > > Am I right, that lilypond is rarely used for my type of notation?
> > > Meaning rock/pop tunes for acoustic guitar.
> >
> > No, the style of music makes no difference.  But LilyPond is  
> > intended for engraving music which is fundamentally based upon  
> > notes on the staff,  and you seem to be just writing out chord  
> > progressions without a melody.  LilyPond is really not designed  
> > for this.  If you were writing in the melody with the chords above  
> > the staff, many of your problems would be resolved.  I think that  
> > what you are trying to do is to write out lead sheets,
> No he's writing chord charts--pretty common for guitarists.

I am a guitarist.

If all he wants is a chord chart, some paper and a pencil would be a  
better approach.  Or even a word processor two write out the chords  
like Ralph Patt did with the Vanilla Book.

http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html

Christian's trying to do something LilyPond is not designed to do  
when what he really needs is a lead sheet, if he wants to use  
LilyPond without a lot of kerfuffling around.  I've sent him  
information about this back-channel.