Re: Changing fingers while holding key down

[Thomas Morley]

Am Do., 21. Okt. 2021 um 18:07 Uhr schrieb Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> In piano music, there's a technique for holding down a key with one
> finger, then switching to another.  I know how this looks in music
> notation (see attached) but I don't know how to engrave it with
> LilyPond.  I've searched the docs, the LSR, and the internet for the
> answer, but I don't know any technical term for this (is there one?)
> so the results were less than helpful.
>
> How is this done in LilyPond?  I'm assuming one uses markup with
> \finger, but I can't find a way to make the "slur" on top of the
> numbers.  (I've seen this notated with the slur under the numbers
> too.)
>
> --
> Knute Snortum

How about:

{
  c''4^\tweak text \markup \tie \concat { \finger "4" \finger "1" } -1
  c''4_\tweak text \markup \tie \concat { \finger "4" \finger "1" } -1
}

Cheers,
  Harm