Re: guitar chords

[Eyolf Østrem]

On 02.10.2007 (09:57), Zoltan Kota wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm newbie here. I have just started to learn lilypond. It looks very nice
> (altough it needs some time to learn syntax, commands and tricks). :-)
> 
> Is it possible to add guitar chords above a staff (accompanying guitar
> chords for a vocal)? Like Em, D, C, H, etc. I have played with \chords,
> \chordmode, ChordNames, but I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing:

You're making it too complicated.  Try to add the following:

    versechords = \chords { e2:m d4 c2. } %etc, 

and replace your current score section with the following:

\score {
 <<
    \versechords
    \context ChoirStaff <<
        \context Voice = sop \Soprano 
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "sop"  \soptext
    \context Voice = ooo \Chor
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "ooo"  \chortext
    >>
  >>
}

Also, in the "ooo" section, you could replace  "Oo-" with "Oo __" (two
underscores), that will produce nice extenders under the whole chord
passage.

> I couldn't add H4 (B4) for example.

b:sus4 is probably what you're after.

Eyolf

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