When I've been scoring things out for bass and guitar I've found that I often have to alter the octave that one part is in. As primarily a bass player I realize that bass parts are written an octave higher than they actually are to avoid too many ledger lines below the staff. Having never really had to read guitar music in standard notation I'm not sure if that's actually true.
The pieces I've scored with LP for guitar have seemed to be that way. Just for reference, I consider the open high E string on a guitar to be the top space on a treble clef stave. Again, this comes from trial and error, and not wanting to have absurd ledger lines. But it is tough to put a guitar chord such as an open E on a single treble clef (since the voicing spans two octaves) and NOT have ledger lines. At least from the perspective of my limited scoring experience.
If I am wrong I'd appreciate being corrected. :-)
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:31:46 +0200 > From: address@hidden > To: address@hidden > Subject: Re: chord fingerings and octavation > > Sorry, I forgot to expand the tabs: > > > \version "2.10.0" > > << > \chords { g2:7 c g:7 c g:7 c:maj7 g:7.9.13 c:6.9 } > > \relative c'' { > #(set-octavation 1) > <g d'f b>2^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;x;5;7;6;7;" > <g c e c'>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;x;5-(;5;5-);8;" > <g b f' g>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;10;9;10;8;x;" > <c, e' g c>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"8-(;10;10;9;8;8-);" > #(set-octavation 0) > <g f' b d>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"3;x;3;4;3;x;" > <c e b' e>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;3;2;4;5;x;" > <g f' b e a>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"3;x;3;4;5-(;5-);" > <c e a d g>^\markup \fret-diagram-terse #"x;3;2-(;2-);3-(;3-);" > } > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > address@hidden > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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