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Re: feathered beam calculations
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Reggie |
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Re: feathered beam calculations |
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Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:22:42 -0700 (MST) |
Reggie wrote
> Aaron Hill wrote
>> Given the current implementation, it would be necessary to use an
>> approximate rational like 50/63 as the moment in order to get 'f' to be
>> half of 'c'. Why that number? Well, it's a close approximation to the
>> irrational cube root of one half. We determine this exact value by
>> taking the desired ratio (1/2) and raising it to the reciprocal of the
>> number of scaling steps between the first and last notes (three, in this
>> case, which becomes the fraction 1/3). (1/2)^(1/3) is about 0.7937; and
>> 50/63 is roughly 0.79365.
>>
>> But before we get lost in the murky details of whether the implemented
>> behavior is right or the documentation is right, let us circle back
>> around to a key point that I feel has not been stressed enough.
>>
>> This means your score really should be bar check clean *before* you ever
>> use \featherDurations.
>>
>> I said earlier we would talk about bar checks *within* the feathered
>> sequence of notes. Consider the following addition to our example:
>>
>> << { r64 \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 2/1)
>> { c32*127/14[ d e f g a | b] } }
>> { r64 \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 2/1)
>> { c32*63/12[ d e f g a] } | b1 }
>> { r64 { c64 d32 e16 f8 g4 a2 } | b1 } >>
>>
>> You'll see that the 'b' is included within the beamed notes. Because we
>> now have seven notes covering the period of two measures less one 64th,
>> we had to adjust our scaling fraction to 127/14. However, what is most
>> important is that \featherDurations fixes the timing of the notes to
>> allow the inside bar check to pass. Omit it, and you'll see that the
>> bar check fails. But also try changing the 2/1 moment to anything else,
>> and the bar check will also fail.
>>
>> What we have here is a very fragile element in the score that can be
>> easily avoided by never requiring any note (apart from the first) within
>> a feathered sequence to align to anything else. The final 'b' above
>> should properly be outside the feathered sequence (or possibly start a
>> new sequence of its own). In this way, the math to ensure all of the
>> sequences have the right lengths can be done completely independent of
>> \featherDurations.
>>
>> Hopefully some of this will be helpful.
>>
>> -- Aaron Hill
>>
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>
> Aaron that makes sense but only if you have failed bar checks before
> feathering. Let's say you have a perfect score with no fails. And now you
> want to simply insert feather beamed notes only in one measure but have
> them
> spaced out according to the speed accelerando ritard as standard. How do
> you
> even begin to know what math * * * * you should be doing when there is no
> math to do in the first place??? NO bar check math because everything is
> already fine. Why can't you just spread out the notes according to how
> feathers are supposed to? Prove me please. Here look.
>
>
> \relative c'
> {
>
> \override Beam.grow-direction = #LEFT
> \featherDurations #(ly:make-moment 2/1)
> c32[ d e f g f e f d f g f d e d f] c4~c | c1 |
> }
>
>
> My CODE has no errors. And yet the 2/1 does NOT space out any notes at ALL
> it's just normal beamed notes with fancy feathers. What math do I need how
> does one even know what math to use since there are no bar bad checks?
> See?
> :))
>
>
>
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I gave a small example. Please provide help so I can be wrong :))
What math can I do to my example from up above to show the space out correct
from 2/1?
(in other words c32*127/14) but for my example. No clues for me.
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