Phil,
Thanks a lot to you and everyone who responded too!
alt. is for "altered". The chord is
altered in every possible way: the ninth is both lowered
and raised, the eleventh is raised, and the thirteenth is
lowered. Also, it does not contain a fifth.
Cheers,
Giovanni
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Phil Taylor wrote:
->
->> abc software has long accepted 'x' as a rest ('z') that
->> isn't drawn. This is useful for producing uncluttered,
->> blank staff space. It also works with some abc software for
->> what you want. I tried the following "tune" with abc2ps,
->> and it worked fine:
->>
->> X: 1
->> T: TEST: Chords Only
->> K: C
->> | "Dm"x2 "Gm"x2 | "A7"x2 "Dm"x2 |
->>
->> This gave me a staff with the chords evenly spaced above
->> the staff, but nothing on the staff except the three bar
->> lines.
->>
->> I don't know how many other abc programs will accept this.
->
->Works fine in BarFly, as long as you add an M: field (M: none is fine).
->
->(What's a D alt chord by the way?)
->
->Phil Taylor
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