Re: guitarist: how write chord names like Gadd5

[Marc Mouries]

On 2/1/2011 12:02 PM, David Santamauro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:27:17 -0800 (PST)
> Jürgen Ibelgaufts<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > I agree. Still an ordinary G. Anyway, what I am looking for is a way
> > to name them differently in order to have different chord diagrams
> > and different names on the printed score to make clear to the
> > guitarist when he should use the one or the other.
> Like I said, there are usually two distinct diagrams both labeled 'G'
> but the second has a () or some note that it is a different voicing
> (like my example below).
>
> > > these aren't different G chords ... just different voicings. I have
> > > seen them notated a variety of ways the most common being:
> > >
> > >   G           G (type 2)
> > > ----       ----
> > > 320003     320033
> > >
> > > 320003 and 320033 are the diagrams, obviously.
> David
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Why don't you create your own pre-defined chord diagram?

FYI, I did this for Violin and you could create your own for Guitar by 
looking at the doc.

gMajor    = { < g\4  d'\3  b' \2  g'\1 >1 }
gMinor    = { < g\4  d'\3  bf'\2  g'\1 >1 }

\storePredefinedDiagram #default-fret-table \gMajor
                        #violinTuning
                        #"o;o;2-1;3-2;"
\storePredefinedDiagram #default-fret-table \gMinor
                        #violinTuning
                        #"o;o;1-1;3-2;"

Hope this helps.

-Marc