Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-16 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Man, what a flame I'm ingited :) I've read all your answers with real interest. First of all, I'm not in classical music. I play pop-rock-jazz. So I played in big bands, but don't know the orchestral world. As an electric bass player, I know that I play a transposing instrument, but as you

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread Brian Barker
At 06:30 15/05/2014 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: I would say, based on my fairly extensive collection of guitar scores, collected over about 40 years, that there are probably more commercially engraved editions that omit the 8 than those that show it. This is surely no different from the practice

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.05.2014 18:53, schrieb Brian Barker: At 06:30 15/05/2014 +1000, Nick Payne wrote: I would say, based on my fairly extensive collection of guitar scores, collected over about 40 years, that there are probably more commercially engraved editions that omit the 8 than those that show it.

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread Matthew Collett
On 16/05/2014, at 10:08 am, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: At first I was also inclined towards saying that it’s correct to add the 8 and it doesn’t hurt anyone, so why not just leave it where Lily puts it by default. Then I thought of a counter-example: some orchestra

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-15 Thread David Kastrup
Matthew Collett m_coll...@ihug.co.nz writes: On 16/05/2014, at 10:08 am, Simon Albrecht simon.albre...@mail.de wrote: At first I was also inclined towards saying that it’s correct to add the 8 and it doesn’t hurt anyone, so why not just leave it where Lily puts it by default. Then I thought

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Carlo Vanoni
I just noticed that using \clef bass_8 will print a small 8 under the clef. Not nice. How to get rid of it? Il Lunedì 12 Maggio 2014 12:51, Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it ha scritto: Uh, bass_8... that's a news. I still use the relative to prevent some ' and , from the code. Since I

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-05-14 11:08 GMT+02:00 Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it: I just noticed that using \clef bass_8 will print a small 8 under the clef. Not nice. How to get rid of it? \new Staff \with { \omit ClefModifier } ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Great! Il Mercoledì 14 Maggio 2014 11:16, Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com ha scritto: 2014-05-14 11:08 GMT+02:00 Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it: I just noticed that using \clef bass_8 will print a small 8 under the clef. Not nice. How to get rid of it?  \new

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Tim Roberts
Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it wrote: I just noticed that using \clef bass_8will print a small 8 under the clef. Not nice. How to get rid of it? Well, hang on a moment. If the notes really do sound an octave below what is written, then the 8 under the clef is exactly the right

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-05-14 18:43 GMT+02:00 Tim Roberts t...@probo.com: If the notes really do sound an octave below what is written, then the 8 under the clef is exactly the right notation. If they don't sound an octave below what is written, then your transposition is not correct. I cannot think of any

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-05-14 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: 2014-05-14 18:43 GMT+02:00 Tim Roberts t...@probo.com: If the notes really do sound an octave below what is written, then the 8 under the clef is exactly the right notation. If they don't sound an octave

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
El 14/05/2014 21:16, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com escribió: 2014-05-14 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: 2014-05-14 18:43 GMT+02:00 Tim Roberts t...@probo.com: If the notes really do sound an octave below what is written, then the 8

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Nick Payne
On 15/05/2014 5:53 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: El 14/05/2014 21:16, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com mailto:thomasmorle...@gmail.com escribió: 2014-05-14 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com mailto:pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: 2014-05-14

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-05-14 22:30 GMT+02:00 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: On 15/05/2014 5:53 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: El 14/05/2014 21:16, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com escribió: 2014-05-14 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: 2014-05-14 18:43

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread Francisco Vila
El 14/05/2014 22:32, Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net escribió: On 15/05/2014 5:53 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: El 14/05/2014 21:16, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com escribió: 2014-05-14 20:45 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com: 2014-05-14

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-14 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com writes: 2014-05-14 22:30 GMT+02:00 Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net: I would say, based on my fairly extensive collection of guitar scores, collected over about 40 years, that there are probably more commercially engraved editions that omit the 8

relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Hi everyone, I'm transcribing a song that is, as usual, versex2-chorus-verse-chorus. Instead of copying all the notes of the verse/chorus section, I've created the verse-chorus sections so than I can just add \verse \chorus in the main score to print it. I need to display both the score and

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Francisco Vila
Using relative per variable at the moment of their definition is robust pitchwise. Sorry for top posting El 12/05/2014 10:48, Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it escribió: Hi everyone, I'm transcribing a song that is, as usual, versex2-chorus-verse-chorus. Instead of copying all the notes

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Hi Francisco, thanks for the reply. But... I didn't understand it very well... Did you mean to do something like this? verse = {     \relative c,     {         a'4 b c a | a b c a | \break     } } chorus = {     \relative c,     {         a'4 b c d |

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Francisco Vila
El 12/05/2014 11:42, Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it escribió: Hi Francisco, thanks for the reply. But... I didn't understand it very well... Did you mean to do something like this? verse = { Yes. This brace is not needed.

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-05-12 11:42 GMT+02:00 Carlo Vanoni vanoniiscrizi...@yahoo.it: As said, this set all verse/note to the correct pitch, but the tabs pitch will be wrong (the \relative definition in the TabScore section will be ignored). Hi Carlo, If you want to have the right pitch you have to put the

Re: relative pitch with song sections

2014-05-12 Thread Carlo Vanoni
Uh, bass_8... that's a news. I still use the relative to prevent some ' and , from the code. Since I also have (in the real code) also fingering and sting numbers, it will become a real mess otherwise. Here is the now working code: % \version 2.18.0 verse =