Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

[Sarah k Alawami]

Well I'm used to writing numbers as my theory person had us do for our key 
board tests so I see c4 and think, Oh middle c on the piano. so that's how I 
interpreted it in the docs as a middle c not a quarter note. I also 
misinterpreted the ' symbol to mean a single quote so it literally did mean c 4 
on the  piano not a quarter note. Way too many terminal commands for me that 
night I guess. lol!

Is there a way to memorize or through pattern recognition how many ' and , 
symbols it takes to jump octaves?  besides writing down a few notes and going 
to the tuneful site to listen to see if I messed up? as that's what I've been 
doing and it yeps but it slows me down a lot. and we don't' really want that.

Tc all and be blessed.
On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:23 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sarah k Alawami <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Oh the docs messed up. lol! It was in the notes reference guide at the 
>> octave checks section. 
>> 
>> Here is the example they gave.
>> 
>> \relative c'' {
>>  c2 d='4 d
>>  e2 f
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> so I followed the directions unless I just red it wrong. lol! whichI
>> probably did as I was rushing to get the assignment done. lol!
> 
> 4 is the quarter note duration of the note with pitch d'.  I don't think
> you followed any given directions here.  Rather you followed directions
> you made up on the fly yourself based on what you read into the example.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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