Re: tremolo: 4/4 time, 2 half notes, single-slash tremolo question

[William Rehwinkel]

Great, glad you could get it working Kenneth. Speaking for myself, I 
found it easiest to think of \repeat tremolo in the same way as the 
other \repeat commands... the first number is how many times the note 
repeats.

-William

On 7/18/22 20:44, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi William;
>
>    Thank you! That is exactly what I needed.  I still don't have the
> formula down pat, but I'll work on it until it is automatically
> correct.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 5:40 PM William Rehwinkel
> <william@williamrehwinkel.net> wrote:
> > Hey Kenneth,
> >
> > I think you may want to write `\repeat tremolo 4` instead of 2, because
> > that will signify four repeating eighth notes, which will result in the
> > time of a half note...unless i am misunderstanding.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -William
> >
> > On 7/18/22 20:34, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > >     I was able to generate two half-note, single-slashed tremolos in 4/4
> > > time using the colon syntax, but do not understand how to get the same
> > > effect with the repeat tremolo syntax:
> > >
> > >     \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8  | % m01
> > >     <b d' fs'>2:8 q:8                                 | % m02
> > >
> > > bar #2 is correct where bar #1 results in the following bar check warning:
> > >
> > > Swan_Lake.ly:110:64: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/2
> > >     \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8
> > >                                                                  | % m01
> > >
> > > I'd like to use the repeat tremolo syntax because I'd like midi output
> > > to reflect the tremolo where the colon syntax is not understood for
> > > midi output.
> > >
> > >     I'm apparently not doing the math correctly.
> > >
> > >     4/4 time, half notes, two 8th note tremolos
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ken Wolcott
> > --
> > William Rehwinkel
> >
> > william@williamrehwinkel.net
> > https://williamrehwinkel.net
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