I had to write down some chord progressions.
Lilypond didn't seem to cut is as it didn't accept variations like G7#11
TuxGuitar wasn't usable because it required me to print either notes or tabs - I'd like to show the chord names above an empty bar.
Nted works clunky, chord names keep overlapping, modifying stuff is hard, doesn't transpose chord base notes.
Back to pen & paper I guess.
Chord Charts
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- raboof
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Re: Chord Charts
Hey that's cool, didn't notice that. That's indeed the chord I want.../NilsGey wrote:Lilypond and Denemo: c:7.11+ is not what you want?
.. but not the notation I want: I'd like it to show up as 'C7#11'. I got that with:Prints as: c7/add#11
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rsharp = \markup { \raise #0.5 { \sharp } }
chExceptionMusic = {
<c e g bes fis'>1-\markup { \super { "7" \rsharp "11" } }
}
The end result: http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/linu ... nd/chords/ . Some very ugly hacks there still (esp. the 'alt' thing), but on the whole a nice result. Question remains: who comes up with crazy changes like that?
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Re: Chord Charts
I read a pretty long mailing list discussion before answering you. As you can imagine you are not the only person who wants Jazz Chords in Lilypond. A good part was about the alt-chord. It may well be that this is already built-in in Lilypond. And if not you can be sure there are ready to use snippets and macros for that out there.
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Re: Chord Charts
Well, MuseScore is really working for me right now for Chord Charts. Latest stable version as of today (1.1) includes some great features for this.