Re: Having trouble with chord symbols above notes

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* 2012-08-13 16:55 +0200 BrAthanasius:

> I am having difficulty understanding what is going on in the \chords

> dialog. I have not seen anything on the website that clarifies the

> point either. Is "s4" supposed to skip four beats, and if so is that

> what a \breve is worth?

 

Durations in chord mode work just like for ordinary notes: a suffix 4 gives a chord (or a spacer rest, s) a duration corresponding to a quarter note; similarly, write 1 for a whole note, 2 for a half note etc. \breve specifically corresponds to a duration of two whole notes.

 

If you don't specify a duration for a chord, the previous one is repeated.

 

> For instance when I have :

> <<

> \chords { c \breve:m s4 s f s4 c:m }

> \relative c' {

> \set Score.timing = ##f

> \key ef \major

> g'\breve f4 g af \bar "|"

> s

> f\breve ef4 f g \bar "||"

> }

>

>

> I want the g4 at the end of the second measure to have "c:m". I am

> thinking "add s to take care of the skip at the beginning of the

> measure, then add s4 to take care of the \breve followed by s s and

> then the c:m should be over the g4" but that isn't working.

 

Not sure I understand you correctly. Your notes, written with explicit durations, are

 

g\breve f4 g4 af4 | s4 f\breve ef4 f4 g4

 

Assuming you want this (please view with a fixed-width font):

 

C . . . . F . . Cm

g\breve f4 g4 af4 | s4 f\breve ef4 f4 g4

 

 

where "." indicates no chord and nothing printed, your chord durations should similarly be

 

c\breve s4 s4 s4 s4 f\breve s4 s4 c4:m

 

or more briefly

 

c\breve s4 s s s f\breve s4 s s c:m

 

or even

 

c\breve s2. s4 f\breve s2. c4:m

 

 

Best regards,

 

RS