I as a singer/songwriter with limited notational skills also use pen and staff paper for the first draft(s) but then need a tool that lets me hear if I got the rhythm right. (Even if that’s always a matter of interpretation and may change in every verse.) And as a quality aware typesetter and a programmer I just love LilyPond. But if I’m trying several rhythmic variants (syncopes, triplets), because I often don’t know what it is exactly what I hear in my head, it’s a tedious approach to e.g. change several places and maybe voices from syncopation to tuplets and back, or is it a timing change... Some of my songs are quite irregular, but I want proper sheets.
Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net Am 2018-03-23 um 04:34 schrieb Tom Cloyd <tomcloydm...@gmail.com>: > I have always found that nothing beats plain pencil and sheets of staff > paper, until I have the basic piece fairly complete. For me, it's clearly > faster to make even a second draft on paper than to move at that point to LP > and continue from there. I consider fast "hand writing" on staff paper to be > a basic composing skill, long used by those who come before us. > > Working this way, alterations are so much easier, in the initial stages. > Later, I find the reverse to be true. I do love getting to the point where > it's time to produce an actual engraved score, but revisions certainly do > continue after that. > > Tom > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, > but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~ Neil Gaiman _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
