Hi- My name is Tim and I am a new LilyPond user. Sounds like an AA
meeting introduction, sorry! I live in St. Paul MN and started using
LP about 10 days ago.
Thus far I have been using LP to create jazz lead sheets and- once
past the initial learning curve- I've able to set a half dozen songs
into lead sheet format with nice output in the past week or so; and
the \transpose function is cool beyond words. These have replaced
barely legible handwritten charts with neat and legible music (and
transposed for the horns in a few seconds! W00t!).
But with jazz lead sheets there has been one problem, which has been
commented on in some previous threads- the use of routine jazz chord
extensions. I have not been able to figure out how to get LP to
print anything like a m7b5 or a 7#9 or a 7b9 using \chordmode. This
is difficult with a song like "Angel Eyes" which has a good half-
dozen of these types of chords. Currently I am writing in those
extensions by hand because it's just the simplest solution. Looking
at the archives there seemed to be various solutions that seemed
rather kludgy to me. It seems like I ought to be able to type
something like d2:m7b5 and get that chord on the page. I am used to
the Real Book chord expression conventions, which are familiar to
most if not all jazz musicians and are more or less the de facto
standard in the US, at least.
I don't know if this is just newbie error or a limitation of LP. If
it makes a difference, I use LP 2.12.2-1 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. Am I
just missing the part in the various manuals that shows how to do
this? Or is there some other reasonable solution without introducing
large amounts of code (I saw the ones to make use of lyrics or
\markup instead of chords; lots of work went into that, I am sure!).
It may be that I did not find the documentation or the thread that
provides the "best" answer when I searched the archives- if so, my
apologies.
Tim
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