Re: Drop D tuning

[Brett McCoy]

That looks nice, too. In many guitar books, though, I see it placed at
the top, especially if other strings need to be downtuned also, like a
lot of metal guitarists do.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
> I prefer to have the indication just to the left of the first stave, and for
> this I set the instrument name, as it automatically gets placed correctly:
>
> \relative c' {
>    \clef "treble_8"
>    \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \bold { \circle {6} "= D " }
>    c1
> }
>
> Nick
>
> On 04/02/10 06:28, Brett McCoy wrote:
>>
>> I have a score where I need to indicate Drop D tuning for the guitar
>> (6th string is tuned down to D). The typical way this is indicated in
>> guitar music is a (6) = D (circle with a 6 in it = D), placed at the
>> top left of page 1 under the title, but above a tempo mark. I am
>> relatively new to Lilypond and am unsure how to do this... any
>> suggestions?
>>
>
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