I seem to have forgotten the right way to code a key change. I get the
following error message:
C:> mtx blame
==> This is M-Tx 0.52 (Music from TeXt) <29 October 1998>
Writing to blame.pmx
PrePMX done. Now run PMX.
This is pmxab, version 2.2, 18 March 2000
Opening blame.pmx
Starting first PMX pass
Bar 1 Bar 2 Bar 3 Bar 4 Bar 5 Bar 6 Bar 7 Bar 8 Bar 9 Bar 10
Bar
Bar 12 Bar 13 Bar 14 Bar 15 Bar 16 Bar 17 Bar 18 Bar 19 Bar 20
Bar 21 Bar 22 Bar 23 Bar 24
ERROR in line 113, bar 25 Transposition must be at top of first input
block
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K-3+1 \zchar{10}{C}\ r8 ba8 ga8+ ga8 g4 ga8 ba8 | /
^
1
Source attached (ASCII text file).
Meter: 4/4
Flats: 2
Style: SINGER
Space: 8
% Bars/Line: 4
Pages: 2
Systems: 11
%% h9.8i
%% w7i
%% Ar K-2+0
% %% \\input bdgmusic\
% %% \\pageno=6\
%% \\hoffset=.05in\voffset=.05in\
%% \\font\twelverm=cmr12\
%% \\font\sevtrm=cmr17\
%% \\def\emdash{\thinspace---\thinspace}\
%% \\def\hy{\thinspace-}\
%% \\def\chorus{\sevtrm\bf{Chorus:}}\
%% \\headline{\twelverm XenoFilkia \#xx\hfill page XX}\
% %% \\twolines\
%% \\line{\twelverm ~\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm ~\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm ~\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm I BLAME YOU\hfill}\
%% \\line{\twelverm Words and Music \copyright~1998 by Erica Neely\hfill}\
U: Intro
U: Am D | Dsus D | Am G |
@+7 r2b r2b r2b r2b r2b r2b |
L:
U: ~ Am | D
r8 g8 g g [ g g ] g g | a2 g2 |
L: ~ They said it wasn't cost ef-fec-tive
U: Am | G
r8 g8 g g [ g f ] e f | f2d r4 |
L: ~ They said it didn't help the poor.
U: Am | D
r8 g8 g g g g g g | a2 g |
L: ~ They turned their backs on all the dream-ers,
U: Am | F
r8 g8 g g g f e d | ( c0 | c2 ) r4 f8 f |
L: ~ They closed their eyes, they closed that door. ~ I blame
U: Chorus:
U: Am | D
g4 r8 c8- c [ c c ] f | ( f2 f8 ) c c4 |
L: you -- you took away the stars, I blame
U: Am ~ ~ ~ D | F ~ ~ G
g4 r8 g8 c4d- c8 | e4 f8 e d c8d c1 c8 |
L: you -- you stole our brigh-ter to-mor-row, I blame
U: Am | D Dsus D
g4 r8 g8 c- c c c | f2 r8 c8 c4 |
L: you -- you made us what we are, I blame
U: Am ~ ~ ~ D | F ~ ~ G F
g4 r8 g8 c4d- c8 | e4 f8 e d4 ( c | c0 )
L: you -- you turned our pro-mise to sor-row.
% Normal ending
U:
V1 r0 |
L:
% last ending
U:
Vlast r2 r8 f8 f4 | Vx c0 |
L: ~ ~ I blame you.
%% L6
U: Break
U: C | | Am
K-3+1 r8 b8 g+ g g4 g8 b | b4 b b8 a a g | g0 |
L: There was a time when the drea-mers spoke a-bout the stars
U: F | G
a8 a a a a a c4 b4d b8 b4 a8 g |
L: They said that some-day they'd go there, some-day they'd go
U: C | G | Am | C
g0 | r8 f8 f f f g4 a8 | g2 r8 e8 e d | c2 b+ |
L: far, But that was so long a-go... And where the drea-mers
U: G | F
f e4 d | ( e0 | e0 ) |
L: went no one knows.
U: | |
r8 c8 c c c c c c | d2 c | r8 c4 c8 c b g e |
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 ) |
L: way. What kind of ans-wer will you give them? - -
U: | | Chorus
U: |
r8 g8 g g g f e d | c0 | ~
L: What will you do, what will you say?
