Re: Cheat Sheet

[Urs Liska]

Am 09.11.2011 00:59, schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> On 11/8/11 1:32 PM, "Tim Roberts"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> >     As I do more and more
> >       LilyPond data entry, I find the skill set development to be
> >       interesting.  I've become pretty quick at data entry now,
> >     including dynamics and articulation marks.  I've become pretty good
> >     at tweaking the output to get the effects I want.
> >
> >     The skill that is NOT developing, apparently, is the skill to keep
> >     the relative octaves straight.  Inevitably, my first test run ends
> >     up going diagonally straight off the page in one direction or other,
> >     with 20 or 30 ledger lines on each note.
> >
> >     Is there a simple mnemonic aid that can help me remember which part
> >     of a given token is the one that carries forward?  Individual notes
> >     are easy.  Within a chord is easy.  I believe that the first note of
> >     a chord then carries forward to the next token.  But in polyphony
> >     (with<<  >>), is it the last note that carries forward
> >     out of the polyphony?
> If you are parsing notes, the last note parsed serves as the basis for the
> next note.
To make this maybe even a little more concrete:
It does _not_ depend on the context the notes live in - it depends only 
on the order in which they appear in the input file.
(
> If you are parsing chords, the first note in the last chord parsed serves
> as the basis for the next note.
I got used to always writing chords from bottom to top, even when this 
implies more octavations.

HTH
Urs
> At least, that's my mental model.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
>
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