On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jack Campin wrote: > >> I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being > >> able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a > >> major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like > >> | "A Am"C4 | > > Not me, I write > > | "C" A- "Cdim" A- "Dm7" A- "G9" A- | "C6" A2 z2 | > > Which is, by the way, also ugly... > > I suggested a fix for this a few years ago, which nobody took up. My > idea was to have an extra kind of dummy note, which would only have > time value (like a rest) but would have the effect of adding to the > length of the last preceding real note. Say we used "y" for this - at > the time, nobody had pinched it for anything else. Then Ulf's example > could be written > > | "C" A "Cdim" y "Dm7" y "G9" y- | "C6" A2 z2 |
Nice! > | "C" A-- "Cdim" A-- "Dm7" A-- "G9" A- | "C6" A2 z2 | Very nice!!! Hope I wouldn't have to add even more of those silly *'s in the lyrics for this, though :-) > I prefer the "--" way as it eats less of the alphabet and seems more > readable; you don't need to know previous context to tell what pitch > is playing. Agree -- l8er Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
