I am trying to set a piece that starts with a rest (in fact, many of the
bars start with a rest, producing a slightly syncopated effect), but I
want the chords to be at the start of the bar. When I run the piece
through prepmx, I get the following error message:
C:> prepmx blame
==> This is M-Tx 0.52 (Music from TeXt) <29 October 1998>
Writing to blame.pmx
In voice "Voice" near word 4:
V
Am: Chord word must start with note: ERROR on line 26
| D
The source is attached. If that is unreadable for people, I'll cut and
paste it instead.
Meter: 4/4
Flats: 2
Style: SINGER
Space: 8
Bars/Line: 4
% Pages: 1
% Systems: 6
%% h9.8i
%% w7i
%% Ar K+2+0
%% \\input bdgmusic\
%% \\pageno=6\
%% \\headline{\twelverm XenoFilkia \#xx\hfill page XX}\
%% \\twolines\
%% \\line{\twelverm ~\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm I BLAME YOU\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm Words and Music \copyright~1998 by Erica Neely\hfill}\
U: Intro
@+7 r2b r2b r2b r2b r2b r2b |
C: Am D | Dsus D | Am G |
L:
U:
r8 g8 g g [ g g ] g g | a2 g2 |
C: ~ Am | D
L: ~ They said it wasn't cost ef-fec-tive
U:
r8 g8 g g [ g f ] e f | f2d r4 |
C: Am | G
L: ~ They said it didn't help the poor.
U:
r8 g8 g g g g g g | a2 g |
C: Am | D
L: ~ They turned their backs on all the dream-ers,
U:
r8 g8 g g g f e d | ( c0 | c2 ) r4 f8 f |
C: Am | F
L: ~ They closed their eyes, they closed that door. ~ I blame
U: Chorus:
r8 g4 r8 c- c [ c c ] f | ( f2 f8 ) c c4 |
C: Am | D
L: ~ you -- you took away the stars, I blame
U:
g4 r8 g8 c4d- c8 | e4 f8 e d c8d c1 c8 |
C: Am ~ ~ ~ D | F ~ ~ G
L: you -- you stole our brigh-ter to-mor-row, I blame
U:
g4 r8 g8 c- c c c | f2 r8 c8 c4 |
C: Am | D Dsus D
L: you -- you made us what we are, I blame
U:
g4 r8 g8 c4d- c8 | e4 f8 e d4 ( c | c0 )
C: Am ~ ~ ~ D | F ~ ~ G F
L: you -- you turned our pro-mise to sor-row.
% Normal ending
U:
V1 r0 |
C:
L:
% last ending
U:
Vlast r2 r8 f8 f4 | Vx c0
C:
L: ~ ~ I blame you.
%% K-3
U: Break
r8 b8 g+ g g4 g8 b | b4 b b8 a a g | g0 |
C: C | | Am
L: There was a time when the drea-mers spoke a-bout the stars
U:
r8 a8 a a a a a c4 b4d b8 b4 a8 g |
C: F | G
L: They said that some-day they'd go there, some-day they'd go
U:
g0 | r8 f8 f f f g a | g2 r8 e8 e d | c2 b+ |
C: C | G | Am | C
L: far, But that was so long a-go... And where the drea-mers
U:
f e4 d | ( e0 | e0 ) |
C: G | F
L: went no one knows.
r8 c8 c c c c c c | d2 c | r8 c4 c8 c b g e |
C: | |
L: Now tell me if your chil-dren ask you, How you let it slip a-
U:
f0 | r8 c+8 c c c b g e | f2 ( f8 e d4 ) |
C:
L: way. What kind of ans-wer will you give them? - -
U: | | Chorus
r8 g8 g g g f e d | c0 | ~
C: |
L: What will you do, what will you say?
