On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Tim McNamara<[email protected]> wrote: [...] > You appear to be trying to learn sheet music and LilyPond simultaneously. > It would go faster to learn the rules of Western sheet music first- the > fundamentals are actually pretty easy and you can readily find most of the > information online- and then LilyPond.
Or, try to learn lilypond first, then tackle an absurdly complex piece of music (Debussy's Clair of Lune, for example) and dive head-first on it, just to be stuck on the first measure (*), and go to your wife who happens to be a music teacher and start asking her for help. It does a lot to improve communication... Wait, what were we talking about? -- Leonardo Herrera mailto:[email protected] http://leus.epublish.cl (*): Just for keeping things on-topic-ish, this is what I'm talking about: \version "2.12.0" blanknotes = { \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t \override Stem #'transparent = ##t } unblanknotes = { \revert NoteHead #'transparent \revert Stem #'transparent } upper = \relative c'' { \clef treble \key des \major \time 9/8 \override Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t \override Score.RehearsalMark #'Y-offset = #0.1 \mark \markup { \upright Andante \italic \concat{t r \char ##x00E9 s } ¬"expressif" } r8 \pp r8 \blanknotes <f aes>8\( ~ \unblanknotes \stemDown <f aes>4. <des f>4. ~ <des f>8[<c ees>8 <des f>8] <c ees>2. ~ } lower = \relative c' { \key des \major \time 9/8 \override Staff.NoteCollision #'merge-differently-dotted = ##t % 1 << { s8 <f aes>8 \change Staff = upper \relative c''{ \stemDown <f aes>8 } } \\ % trick to make legatto... { r8 \blanknotes <f aes>4 ~ \unblanknotes <f aes>2. } >> % 2 <ges a>2. ~ <ges a>4. } \score { \new PianoStaff << \context Staff = "upper" { % \set PianoStaff.instrumentName = "Piano " #(set-accidental-style 'piano) \upper } \context Staff = "lower" { #(set-accidental-style 'piano) \lower } >> \layout { } \midi { } }
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