Re: fastest, easiest way of including fret diagram markups above music?

[Ryan Clarin]

Thank you for the welcome and reply. I want to include every fret diagram at every chord change, the kids simply do better reading a long when they can see the actual Fret diagram marked up above the music at every change vs having to look above on their sheet for the predefined diagram on top of the sheet. 

Basically, I found the long \fret-diagram string after \markup string works well, but is very long and tedious to write for every chord change. Is there a shortened abbreviated string of the \fret-diagram command that will utilize the built in predefined fret diagrams and make my writing a little easier and faster?

On Monday, December 29, 2014, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:

Il giorno lun 29 dic 2014 alle 19:03, Ryan Clarin <address@hidden> ha scritto:

I am a music teacher who has just converted to lilypond after years of frustrating finale and sibelius usage.  I transcribed a little piece on ukulele with tab and included chord fret diagram markups above the music, but it took me quite a while.

Hi Ryan and welcome to LilyPond!

The fret diagram markups was probably the hardest part to find and the longest, even with the copy and paste.  For example, to do a C diagram, I did:

^\markup { \fret-diagram #"w:4;4-o;3-o;2-o;1-3;" } ^C

then I just copied and pasted for G and changed the dot placement.

Is there any way to utilize the built in ukulele fretboard diagrams and tunings to plug those in a little easier? For example, I used the following string to put the C and G chord right on top of the sheet of music for easy reference:

\include "predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly"

mychords = \chordmode { c g }

<<

\new ChordNames { \mychords }

\new FretBoards { \set Staff.stringTunings = #ukulele-tuning \mychords }

>>

It seems that you replied to yourself in the end of your email.. I mean, you don't have to define every fretdiagram if you include the predefined fretboards that are built-in in lilypond.

So what's your question?

Here you can find a template for a lead sheet:

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/notes-lyrics-and-chords