The suggestions would be great if I were more proficient at writing out
music in general. I think what I'm trying to figure out is the best way to
approximate the correct phrases quickly without taking the time to be
accurate.
I understand the "not take the time to be accurate" but my guess is at some
point you might want to be more accurate. My general LP template uses
voices for chord names, a rhythm context, and some other instrumental line -
could be a vocal melody, but I'm primarily a bass player so more often than
not it's a bass line. I often don't take the time to write out my bass
lines exactly (like I ever play them the same way twice!), and the few vocal
charts I've put together I've found that being exact in terms of a melody
can be frustrating.
So perhaps you could just write an approximate melody? Between that and a
rhythm context the chord placement should take care of itself.
just trying to write an app to convert some simple text file into an .ly
file.
As for "converting" a text file to .ly - it's just a matter of having the
correct extension from what I've found, and making sure you have no
extraneous formatting characters creep in. I've written my own editor using
a rich text edit box so I can have drag and drop, and *sometimes* some weird
things happen in the transition between reading the text file in and writing
it out. Probalby just my own programming mistakes! But you could just save
the file as a txt created in say Notepad (assuming Windows) and copy/rename
it if you want to keep the text file around.
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