Re: Chord names without chords? And one other question.

[Rune Zedeler]

Olaf Stetzer wrote:

> Is there a possibility to print chord names over the staff without
> the notes? I want to print some Jazz arrangements with lilypond and
> usually the chords are more or less broken or split into bass and
> 3-7 or 3-9 Voicings. But I still want to have the chordnames, how do
> I do this?

I don't understand your question...
Without which notes?
What part of i.e. "The river is flowing" from the tutorial do you want
to get rid off?

> Second, because I have two voices in the upper system the
> slurs (the ones which hold notes with ~ )

"Slurs" created with ~ are not slurs but ties.
Try \tieUp, \tieDown.
 
-Rune