> On May 25, 2026, at 5:38 AM, Thomas Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am So., 24. Mai 2026 um 19:37 Uhr schrieb jeff <[email protected]>: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to notate a guitar bend & release (half tone) on a single >> note in standard notation (not tablature).
[...] > Before showing the code, as a musician, I do not understand your request: > If you bend cis'' to d'' then there is no need for a release, because > the d'' is already reached. > Or in other words, its _impossible_ to go _down_ from d'' to d''. > Or do you mean something else? I assumed he meant bending up to a pitch and then releasing back down to the original pitch, so cis'' to d'' to cis''. And of course a bend up could be as much as a minor third. Along with the bend up and release back down to the original pitch, this could also be useful for using a whammy bar to drop the pitch (which could be microtonal to full detuning) and returning to the original (cis" to a' back to cis'' for example). When notating the kind of bend sought by the OP, my solution has been to use slurs with markup above the high note stating "bend." I don't have a whammy bar in any of my guitars, so I've never notated that but might use the same approach with the markup of "whammy" above the staff. Doits, scoops, falls can be useful for notating small pitch deviations and already exist within Lilypond (the whammy bar can give a guitarist the same degree of expression that a horn player or concert string instrument has a la Jeff Beck or Allan Holdsworth). Thank you for this. Your curved arrow up looks elegant and conveys the idea well.
