Re: Help with sheet music format

[Jack Cooper]

You can do something like the attached example.  I use this approach all the 
time- I have a separate markup section for the fret diagrams, although I prefer 
to have mine at the end rather than the beginning of the song, and with a box 
surrounding for emphasis.  This breakout method for the fret diagrams works 
real 
well for songs where there is a capo or complex tuning.  I simply put all the 
instructions in the breakout section, and then I just print the (heard) chords 
above the notation.


  Jack


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Jack Cooper, BerLen Music
www.berlenmusic.com
www.jack-cooper.com



----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen Nesbitt <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 8:30:06 PM
> Subject: Help with sheet music format
> 
> All:
> 
> I would like to use Lilypond to generate sheet music that can best  be 
> described as having 2 distinct  and independent sections. The first  - and 
>upper 
>
> section - is simply a list of chords used in the song along with  fretboard 
> diagrams. The second - lower part - is similar to a lead sheet  with chord 
> names above the staff and rather than pitches in the staff  slashes 
> indicating 

> the beats on which there is a chord change. A rough  example (less the 
> slashes 

> can be found here: 
> http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/scorchVPE.asp?ppn=SC0009216
> 
> I've  played around with Lilypond and have made some progress. I can generate 
> the  chord listing section by creating a compound music expression consisting 
> of  a ChordName context, a staff with staff, clef and time symbols turned off 
>and 
>
> a Voice context containing the fret diagrams.
> 
> However, I can't figure  out the second section. Specifically:
> * How do I generate the second section  so that it is independent of the 
> first 
>- 
>
> in other words, how do I prevent  Lilypond from trying to synchronize the top 
> part with the bottom part? Do I  have multiple Score contexts? Or is ther a 
> way 
>
> I can do that within a single  Score context (a brief Lilypond example would 
> be 
>
> most helpful)
> 
> * If I  have a pickup beat, how do I prevent Lilypond from trying to place a 
> chord  identifier above that pickup beat?
> 
> * How do I create slashes indicating  the beat on which the chord changes. 
> For 

> example, how do I tell Lilypond  that an Em starts on beat 1 and changes to D 
> on beat 3?
> 
> Thanks in  advance for the  assist
> 
> -steve
> 
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