Re: Disconnected and oddly placed stems

[James E. Bailey]

On 05.09.2009, at 20:15, Carl Sorensen wrote:

On 9/5/09 9:37 AM, "Dan Florio" <address@hidden> wrote:

Here are the first few measures of a guitar part in a tune I'm working on:

(Each line represents a measure)

\version "2.12.2"

\header

  {

     title = "Percussion Song"

     composer = "Dan Florio"

  }

Guitar = \relative c'

  {

     << e1 g d' g >>

     << e, g d' fis >>

     << ees, g des' fis >>

     << ees,2 g des' f >> << ees, g des' e >>

  }

I doubt this is what you want to do.  You  are putting notes in parallel

contexts (different voices) rather than in chords.

It's much more likely that you want

 Guitar = \relative c'

   {

      < e1 g d' g >

      < e g d' fis >

      < ees g des' fis >

      < ees g des' f >2 < ees g des' e >

   }

HTH,

Carl

Although, as previously noted, durations inside a chord will fail, so the first chord would have to be <e g d' g>1

James E. Bailey