Tim McNamara wrote:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Tim McNamara wrote:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Hi,
How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher
(e.g. b5 or #5)?
for example
Am7(b5)
or
D7(#5)
I just asked this same question a couple of weeks ago. The standard
way would be:
Am7(b5) for two beats = a2:m7.5- which will render as Aø
D7(#5) for four beats = d1:7.5+ which will render as D7/#5
You can do #9 or b9, etc. this way. All the altered notes will be
preceded by a slash except the major 7th, m7b5 and diminished chords
which are denoted by a delta, diminished sign or half-diminished
sign respectively.
There are other options for rendering the chords which involve
setting up a file of chord markups. For more information, look in
the mailing list archives for the thread "Hello! and question about
jazz chords" for more details. The thread started 10 Feb 2009.
Thanks!
Yeah it would be nice if jazz chords will be improved in Lilypond,
like it was suggested in the link you gave...
Well, the jazz chord rendering follows a set of conventions, just not
the ones established at Berklee and in the Real Book. There's really
nothing wrong with it except that it's not what most jazz musicians
will expect (and the slash is a bit confusing- "is the #5 in the
bass?"). But I've been handed lots of charts at rehearsals with the
chords rendered the way LilyPond does it.
No nothing wrong at all. But maybe it is nice to have both (different)
options to display the chords...
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