Re: \relative is not the best way of entering complicated music

[Sarah k Alawami]

 I actually tried the let's say e='t or how ever the docs were written. I don't 
have them up at the moment and it failed with unknown rhythm. Iactually meant 
e5 on the piano. so how would have I fixed this if I had if I remember 

[relative c'' for middle c if I remember that to and i place an e='5 in the 
block 5 measures down? so I know that's the pitch I want?

The book said it would correct it if it was wrong but it just through up an 
error saying unknown rhythm.

'd rather enter in the pitches like they are on a piano starting with c1 being 
low c and c8 being very high c all the way to the right of the  keyboard. 

thoughts?I like your idea btw.
On Mar 9, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Keith OHara <address@hidden> wrote:

> It took me years to realize that \relative was making LilyPond more difficult
> for me. I very often forget what was the last pitch I typed, especially when
> working on a few music expressions in parallel, and even when I do remember 
> the
> burden of deciding if the interval is a fourth or fifth is distracting.
> 
> I use temporary parallel constructions a lot, so the most recent pitch in the
> input is not always the most recent pitch in time.  Re-arrangements of the
> input require re-checking of the intervals at the boundaries.
> 
> 
> The \transpose function is useful for picking the natural octave of the voice.
> I always know where I am in the range of the target voice or instrument.  When
> using \transpose, for any music with intervals larger than fourths, absolute
> pitch entry requires less typing than \relative (with or without octave 
> checks):
> 
>  \relative c''' { r8 a g a f a e a | d,='' a' a, a' b, a' cis, a' | 
>    d,='' a' cis, a' d, a' e a | f=''1 }
> 
>  \transpose c c'' { r8 a g a f a e a | d a a, a b, a cis a |
>    d a cis a d a e a | f1 }
> 
> *Short* segments of music can be easier to type inside a \relative 
> construction,
> and these short \relative constructions be put inside the \transpose c c'' 
> {...}
> We can re-arrange the \relative constructs with no extra effort, and if the
> segments are short enough that we never need to rearrange things /inside/ of
> them, we are spared the need to figure intervals.
> 
> As soon as you start entering music more complicated that a single melody 
> line,
> I recommend using \relative only on short segments of music---the contiguous
> single melody lines within the more complicated piece.
> 
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