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

[David G]

In relative, a note with no ' or , indicates the closest octave, e.g. for adjacent notes

a b means the B one note above whatever A it was,

d c means the C one note below whatever D it was,

Effectively this means that using no ' or , will always produce a note within a fourth of the previous one (accidentals don't affect this). The biggest jump you can notate with no ' or , are then like this:

e a means the A a fourth above whatever E it was (because the A below is further away)

g d means the D a fourth below whatever G it was (because the D above is further away)

As you know, the ' and , move up and down by an octave respectively.

if you want an E and then the A a fifth below, type e a,

if you want a G and then the D a fifth above, type g d'

And then you can keep adding ''' etc. or ,,, etc. to jump several octaves.

Having typed this, I'm not sure that it actually makes things any clearer - if not please ignore it and I'm sure someone else can make more sense!

On 10 March 2013 21:57, Sarah k Alawami <address@hidden> wrote:

Is there a way to memorize or through pattern recognition how many ' and , symbols it takes to jump octaves?  besides writing down a few notes and going to the tuneful site to listen to see if I messed up? as that's what I've been doing and it yeps but it slows me down a lot. and we don't' really want that.

Tc all and be blessed.