Mats Bengtsson <[email protected]> writes:
> Somewhat off-topic, but still related: An inconvenient and
> non-intuitive consequence of the fact that :8 is not part of the
> duration, is that it's not remembered from note to note. This means
> that
>
> \relative c' {
> c2:8 d2:8 |
> e2:8 f2:8 |
> }
>
> cannot be shortened into
>
> \relative c' {
> c2:8 d |
> e f |
> }
>
> I was recently hit by surprise by this when typesetting some music, and
> I have to admit that I didn't notice directly that the typeset output
> wasn't as I expected, so I had to go back and add "2:8" at a number of
> places. It occurs to me when I write this, that I could have saved some
> typing by using
>
> \relative c' {
> c2:8 d:8 |
> e:8 f:8 |
> }
or
\relative c' {
c2:8 d: |
e: f: |
}
I think that is short enough for practical purposes to not require
remembering like a duration. Also leaving off the tremolo unit for
successive tremoli is practical when the duration changes: a drum roll
is rolled the same whatever the underlying base rhythm may be. Even
though our MIDI is pretty bad at understanding that point.
--
David Kastrup
