Re: multiple chords over a single note

[Joe Wilkinson]

As a regular user may I intervene?
From experience I have found that attaching  chord Symbols to notes is a hiding to nothing. It is time consuming to edit.
Depending on your level of understanding of the notes in chord (triads) it is easiest to set up a separate chord staff and put in the chord root notes. You can give the notes in the chord staff the duration you wish adding the extra notes using the Alt-notename method. Major chords only need the root note. If you must have an inversion there is a command for that. If you wish a chord on, say the second beat of a bar, use a "Hidden" rest or Spacer, or else you will get N.C for a proper rest. Then you get the chord names in the right place in the bar.

If you want two sets of chords, e.g one with its notes transposed, e.g with a guitar capo 3, add a third staff, make it a chord staff AND a mirror of the other chord staff, and set it to transpose on print. I can't find a way to prefix the line of chords with Capo 3 unless I annotate the Music staff somewhere and drag the Capo 3 into place in the Typescript window. A pain but I can live with an extraneous Capo 3 above the music. So this

can result in

The denemo file is attached for your edification! I'm not sure it passes muster as real music though.

Joe Wilkinson

    On 09/03/2020 11:05, Richard Shann wrote:
> I should have mentioned that there is a section in the manual (Help-
> > Browse Manual) covering this topic:
> >       
> Entering Chord Symbols↓
> There are two quite different ways to enter chord symbols (also known
> as Chord Names↓, Fake Chords). If the chord changes do not happen mid-
> way through notes then you can use Notes/Rests->Markings->Chord Symbols
> to attach chord symbols to the notes themselves. A brief summary is
> given by right clicking the option. The conventions are described in
> the LilyPond documentation.
> An alternative is to set a staff to display not the chords in regular
> notation but the chord symbol that represents the chord. Create a staff
> and use Staff->Staff Properties->Chord Symbols. Then this case you
> enter actual chords which will be displayed as Chord Symbols. The
> duration of the chords will determine the positioning, enabling chord
> changes mid-note. The chord symbols can then be arranged above or below
> the melody or other representation of the piece using Staffs->Swap
> Staffs or creating a custom layout in the Score Layout window.
> A palette is available4.5↑ for inserting chords, with this palette
> selected the key sequence pm7<Enter>, for instance, will insert/append
> a c, e-flat, g, b-flat chord if the cursor height is on a C, (or c-
> sharp, e, g-sharp, b if there is a pending sharp↓).
> Chord Charts can also be created – there is a Chord Charts palette for
> these. Compact chord charts require a patch to LilyPond – enquire on
> the mailing list for this. 
>
> Richard
>
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 08:30 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 20:13 -0400, Bric wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Denemo lets me "attach" chord symbols to specific, discrete notes.
> > >         
> > I think you are referring to this:
> >
> > Command: Edit Chord Symbols
> > Allows chord symbols to be added to the current note. E.G.cis:dim7
> > for
> > c-sharp diminished 7th. See Lilypond docs for notation
> > Location: Object Menu ▶ Notes/Rests ▶ Markings ▶ Chords Symbols
> > Internal Name: EditChords
> >
> >
> > >  I asked the lilypond crew how to engrave multiple chord symbols
> > > over
> > > and extended-duration note spanning, say, a whole
> > > measure.  Example:
> > > a whole note extending the full 4/4 measure, with two chord symbols
> > > positioned within the measure - the first at the beginning of the
> > > measure, the second about half-way.
> > >
> > > Attaching an illustration of what i'm after.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to achieve this on the level of denemo controls,
> > > rather than having to export denemo to lilypond and edit the
> > > "\chordmode { ... } block in lilypond ?
> > >         
> > Yes, there is. Instead of attaching chord symbols to notes use a
> > chord
> > symbol staff, where you can put as many chord symbols as you want for
> > durations of your choice.
> >
> > Command: Chord Symbols (Off/On)
> > Typesets the music on this staff as chord symbols (off/on).
> > Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Staff Properties
> > Internal Name: ChordStaff
> >
> > There is an example - use
> > Command: Open Example
> > Start a new score from a built-in example
> > Location: Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Open
> > Internal Name: OpenExample
> >
> > and choose LeadSheet.denemo
> > In bar 8 there are two chords to the final syllable of "chose".
> >
> > (the other method you can see used in
> > LeadSheetNamedChordSymbols.denemo
> > where you see in bar 8 that you *can* do splitting a note but it is
> > more limited, you can't control the exact timing).
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >       
>

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