> On 26 May 2019, at 22:35, John Helly <hel...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> Aloha.
>
> I'm writing a song for guitar and vocal that has the structure below. I would
> like to add 12 bars of strumming guitar as an Intro but cannot figure out how
> to add it within the Staff since it doesn't have a melody, only strumming of
> the chords.
>
> I've been trying to figure out how to add this as a Voice (\Song.Voice.Intro)
> but can't seem to find the secret sauce or maybe that's the wrong approach?
>
> Mahalos.
> J.
>
> *************************
> <<
> \chords{ \theChords \theChords \theChords }
> \new Staff {
> \key a \minor
> \new Voice = "intro" { \Song.Voice.Intro \break }
> \new Voice = "verse" { \Song.Voice.Verse \bar "||" }
> \new Voice = "chorus" { \Song.Voice.Chorus \bar "||" }
> \new Voice = "outro" { \Song.Voice.Outro \bar ":|." }
> }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseI }
> \new Lyrics
> <<
> \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseII }
> \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
> >>
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIII }
> \new Lyrics
> <<
> \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseIV }
> \lyricsto "chorus" { \Song.Lyrics.Chorus }
> >>
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \Song.Lyrics.VerseV }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "outro" { \Song.Lyrics.Outro }
> >>
> *********************
Have you had a look here?
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/snippets/rhythms
Search for the section marked “Guitar strum rhythms”.
Michael
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