Re: How to best do chord/melody arrangement

[Carl Sorensen]

On 11/24/13 3:41 PM, "Ian" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>I realise that I could have 2 sections - one with notes and one with the
>chords and assign them each to a different staff ... but that does not
>really work for me because the chords and the notes are all one (i.e. all
>played by the same guitar), so when I write it down I write it in one
>flow. 
>To separate them out would be really difficult and artificial.

Separating it all is the way we would do it in LilyPond (it's also the way
I do it when I write my guitar music.

\version "2.16.2"

mc = #(define-music-function
          (parser location myNotes)
          (ly:music?)
          #{  \improvisationOn $myNotes \improvisationOff #} )

myChords = \chordmode {
s1
e1:7
}

myNotes = {
a1
\mc{e2.}
e'8 c8
}

<<
\new ChordNames {
  \myChords
}
\new Voice \with {
  \consists "Pitch_squash_engraver"
} {
  \myNotes
}

>>






Not exactly the way you want it, but it's the best way I know to do it.

Hope this is helpful.

Carl