Re: How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-15 Thread Erwin Dieterich
Dear Amelie (and others), just to get this richt: an "alt chord" is a real chord designation and not just "some altered tones". An "alt chord" has 1, b2, #2, 3, b5, b6, b7 and makes for some interesting sounds, both harmonically (no 5, just b5 and #5) and melodically (I especially like having

Re: How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-11 Thread Stephan Wehner
That's sad news. I did mean adding just the text "Bb7alt" to the top of the bar. And there is no workaround except for going into the dvi files? Stephan On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:35:50PM +0100, Amelie Zapf wrote: > Hi Stephan, all, > > > I'm using lilypond to lay out a Jazz piece. I'm stuck w

How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-11 Thread Stephan Wehner
I'm using lilypond to lay out a Jazz piece. I'm stuck with a chord "Bb7alt" which the composer specifies. How can I add this chord (as text) to the score? (I'm using version 1.6 since the newer versions required too many other upgrades) Thanks a lot Stephan ___

Re: How to add Jazz alt chords

2003-11-11 Thread Amelie Zapf
Hi Stephan, all, > I'm using lilypond to lay out a Jazz piece. I'm stuck with a chord > "Bb7alt" which the composer specifies. How can I add this chord (as > text) to the score? I hope you're using Lily 1.6.7 or higher with the corrected jazz code... I know of the problem... many jazzers write