Re: [Lilypond] How to add 12 bars of guitar strumming as Intro

[John Helly]

Mahalo. I'll investigate.
J.

On 5/26/19 20:34, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 26 May 2019, at 22:35, John Helly <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Aloha.
>>
>> I'm writing a song for guitar and vocal that has the structure below. I 
>> would like to add 12 bars of strumming guitar as an Intro but cannot figure 
>> out how to add it within the Staff since it doesn't have a melody, only 
>> strumming of the chords.
>>
>> I've been trying to figure out how to add this as a Voice 
>> (\Song.Voice.Intro) but can't seem to find the secret sauce or maybe that's 
>> the wrong approach?
>>
>> Mahalos.
>> J.
>>
>> *************************
>> <<
>> \chords{ \theChords \theChords \theChords  }
>> \new Staff {
>>   \key a \minor
>>   \new Voice = "intro"   { \Song.Voice.Intro  \break }
>>   \new Voice = "verse"   { \Song.Voice.Verse  \bar "||" }
>>   \new Voice = "chorus"  { \Song.Voice.Chorus \bar "||" }
>>   \new Voice = "outro"   { \Song.Voice.Outro  \bar ":|." }
>> }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseI }
>> \new Lyrics
>>   <<
>>   \lyricsto "verse"  { \Song.Lyrics.VerseII }
>>   \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
>>   >>
>> \new Lyrics  \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIII }
>> \new Lyrics
>>   <<
>>   \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIV }
>>   \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
>>   >>
>> \new Lyrics  \lyricsto "verse"  { \Song.Lyrics.VerseV }
>> \new Lyrics  \lyricsto "outro"  { \Song.Lyrics.Outro }
>> *********************
> Have you had a look here?
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/rhythms
>
> Search for the section marked “Guitar strum rhythms”.
>
> Michael
>

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