Re: Voices within bar do not add up or do not fit into bar

[Mark Polesky]

howard bryant wrote:
> I cannot find any way to represent the following within a single 3/4
> bar. Imagine 4 voices (written one above the other here :
>
> r2 g8 f8 =3 beats
> D2 d4    = 3 beats
> A2.      = 3 beats
> D2.      = 3 beats
>
> Make sense. The combination of chords and voicing does not seem to
> work

Hi Howard,

It's better to send questions like these to address@hidden You
can subscribe at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user .
Here's one of many possible solutions. By the way, have you read the
Learning Manual? If not, make sure you do before you get in too deep!
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/index

Hope this helps.
- Mark


\relative {
  <<
    { \voiceOne r2 g''8 f }
    \\
    { \stemUp d2 \stemDown d4 }
    \\
    { \voiceTwo  <d, a'>2. }
  >>
}