Re: Suggestion: spacing for swing music?

[bb]

Am 04.08.2013 14:27, schrieb David Kastrup:
> bb <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > {
> >
> > \times 2/3 {g8 g g}
> >
> > % \times 2/3 {(g8 g) g}
> >
> > \times 2/3 {g8. g8 g16}
> >
> > % \times 2/3 {[g8 g16]}
> >
> > \times 2/3 {g4 g8}
> >
> > r4
> >
> > }
> [...]
>
> > It is impossible to set slurs inside triples.
> Wrong.
>
> > Is a widely used practice to mark swing rhythm. And I found it
> > impossible to beam an eighth with a sixteenth note. (it is often used,
> > where the second note. the sixteenth note does have a short additional
> > (sixteenth) beam - may be my knowledge of lilypond does not have the
> > necessary depths for such a construct?)
> Maybe you should look up the syntax of opening slurs and beams in the
> manual.  They are written _after_ the note they apply to.  This has
> nothing at all to do with triplets.
>
> > May be you can convince the developers to allow slurs in triplets to
> > mark the swing rhythm? (I do not try it, because my ideas usually are
> > disliked.)
> >
> > BTW I do not think this is a bug, it simply is not implemented. BTW I
> > am not sure that the bug blog is the correct place for this topic?
> The bug list (it is not a "blog") is the right place for both feature
> requests and tentative bug reports.  The bug squad will pick up from
> there if necessary.  The developer list might be appropriate for
> discussing missing functionality when it is not clear how this
> functionality should be accessed in the first place.  The user list
> might be appropriate if the user suspects that this is just user error.
> If the user error is triggered by bad documentation, this can lead to a
> problem report for the documentation on the bug list again.
Try this:

\version "2.16.2"


%I do not think it will work for MIDI

%please try yourself


\paper {

indent = 0

line-width = #100

tagline = ##f

}


\layout {

\context {

\Score

\override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f

proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 32)

}

}


\header {

title = "possible swing notation "

composer = "last Line Gershwin: I Got Rhythm "

\newline

}


swing = {

\relative c''

{

% wrong \times 2/3 {(g8 g) g}

\times 2/3 {g8 (g) g}

% wrong \times 2/3 {[g8 g16]}

\times 2/3 {g8. (g8) g16}

% wrong \times 2/3 {[g8. g16]}

\times 2/3 {g8. [g16]}

\times 2/3 {g4 g8}

r4



}

}


Gershwin= {

\key bes \major

\relative c''

{

r4 bes2 bes4 bes4. bes8 (bes2)

}

}



backbeat ={

\relative c''

{

% emphasize the backbeat two possibilities:

g4 \times 2/3 {g\> g8\!} g4 \times 2/3 {g-> g8}

% usually the second is used

}

}

shuffle = {

% shuffle notation, a ternary rhythm

\relative c''

{

\times 2/3 {g4-> g8 g4-> g8} \times 2/3 {g4-> g8 g4-> g8}

}

}

\new Staff {

\swing

}

\new Staff {

\Gershwin

}

\new Staff {

\backbeat

}

\new Staff {

\shuffle

}