On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:34 pm, Albert Einstein wrote: > Do you know something about marking barre ?
I know that a vertical bracket is very popular in Germany for marking a barre, but I have never been tempted to adopt it. Extra verticals are a problem when the hspacing is tight. As you know, in English we use "C" for the Spanish "ceja", bar. Much less often "B" for the French, "barre". The problem is indicating how many strings to bar, and also that Roman numbers are used with it. Two ways of indicating how many strings to bar are current: 1/2CIII = bar less than all the strings at the third fret. 3/6CIII = bar three strings at the third fret. This is very popular, and absolutely horrible to read. I indicate the lowest string barred instead, using a left bracket character: [3g = bar the third fret to the (G) string. See http://www.openguitar.com/arrangements.html 2nd measure. I'm pretty happy with it. I can't imagine anyone capable of playing the music having any problem in understanding it because a left bracket looks like a C without risk of being confused with a C if you have chord names, and someone used to brackets shouldn't have any problem understanding it either. Old ways to indicate barres are to finger some first finger notes and give position, like "3 pos." or to use an old fashioned piano pedal mark for position: *3. That would tempt me but I need asterisks when I write by hand. For flamenco, I wouldn't use an arpeggio bracket at all, I would write out rasgeados and use t, i, m, a, or q for a single note and T, I, M, A, Q or U, N, W, V for a chord, so there are no arrows either. My point is that the arpeggio bracket in guitar music always refers to the right hand. No one will miss it if you use it for the left, but are you sure you really want to do that? daveA _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
