On 2/11/2018 8:30 AM, Hallvard Paulsen wrote:
Hello all
I am an absolute beginner when it comes to LilyPond and musical
scoremaking in general, so please correct me if I am not behaving
according to this lists rules.
(I also have very limited experience with the musical terms in
English, so please correct me if there is something obviously wrong.)
The thing is that my grown son (23years this year) is playing in a
Rock Band consisiting of 7members all having some degree of mental
disablility.
There are 2 keyboardists, a simplified bass, and a simplified guitar,
and a vocalist using scores or lyrics, and 2 drummers/percusionists
who manage without.
The thing is that they are using "Dissimilis Notation
<http://arkiv.soh.no/pictures/original/fargesystem.jpg>", (octaves
have no relevance for us) where the note pitch is shown using a mix of
colors and numbers, and duration is basically given by some assistant
pointing to the color to be played. (In general the beat is almost
allways 4/4, the keyboards play hole notes, the bass halfnotes, the
guitar quarter notes, and they only change notes/chords at the
beginning of the new bar. I have attached a PDF as an example (usually
there are many more bars, but it seams Hungry Hart can be played by
repeating these 4 over and over again.
I was hopeing it would be possible to use lilypond to produce scores
with a mixture colored/numbered noteheads, and also MIDI files to play
the voices of any missing bandmember should they not be able to attend
a rehersal. Also good "pointers" are hard to find, and even harder to
keep over time, so if their job could be "automated away" to some
degree, it would make the future much more predictable.
Hi Hallvard,
It is certainly possible to create colored notes, stems, etc. in
LilyPond...have you already downloaded and installed the program?
To get you started, here is a page from the documentation that talks
about coloring objects:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#coloring-objects
Once you decide what notes you would like to input, and on what staff
type you would like, etc. then you can begin to tweak the colors until
you are satisfied.
Also, MIDI output is possible in LilyPond as well, and you can choose
whichever GM instrument you'd like to use in the event of a performance.
Also also, welcome to LilyPond :)
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