Re: How to best do chord/melody arrangement

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Ian,

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> that inprovisationOn/Off thing is pretty cool as it gives me the 'slash' I 
> want.I'll go investigate that some more in the manual.
> The problem is though that it still splits what is a single piece of music 
> into 2 sections (chords and notes) and when writing it, you need to be 
> careful with all the spaces in the chords section to make sure it all lines 
> up. Ideally I would just like to specify the chord name in the improvisation 
> section above.

1. Look for “parallelMusic” — there might be something there that can help you.
2. Perhaps a Scheme function or engraver could be written to take a single 
input and spit out what you want — that’s far beyond my abillities, so you’ll 
want to ask around (and possibly offer a bounty).

Hope this helps!
Kieren.