<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Metronome marks - GNU LilyPond Notation Reference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="description" content="GNU LilyPond Notation Reference"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.11"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Writing-parts.html#Writing-parts" title="Writing parts"> <link rel="next" href="Instrument-names.html#Instrument-names" title="Instrument names"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1999--2007 by the authors Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. 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To place them below the staff simply set the <code>direction</code> property of <code>MetronomeMark</code> or <code>RehearsalMark</code> appropriately. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \layout { ragged-right = ##f } { % Metronome marks below the staff \override Score.MetronomeMark #'direction = #DOWN \tempo 8. = 120 c''1 % Rehearsal marks below the staff \override Score.RehearsalMark #'direction = #DOWN \mark \default c''1 } </pre> <p> <a href="../a1/lily-7459f848.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../a1/lily-7459f848.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <!-- perhaps also an example of how to move it horizontally? --> <!-- TODO add snippet to LSR -pm --> <p>To change the tempo in the MIDI output without printing anything, make the metronome marking invisible <pre class="example">\once \override Score.MetronomeMark #'transparent = ##t </pre> <!-- TODO add snippet to LSR -pm --> <p>To print other metronome markings, use these markup commands <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> c4^\markup { ( \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"16." #1 = \smaller \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"8" #1 ) } </pre> <p> <a href="../f3/lily-2174b89c.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../f3/lily-2174b89c.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p>For more details, see <a href="Formatting-text.html#Formatting-text">Formatting text</a>. <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">See also</h5> <p class="indent"> <p>Music Glossary: <a name="index-metronome-1444"></a><a href="../music-glossary/metronome.html#metronome">metronome</a>, <a name="index-metronomic-indication-1445"></a><a href="../music-glossary/metronomic-indication.html#metronomic-indication">metronomic indication</a>, <a name="index-tempo-indication-1446"></a><a href="../music-glossary/tempo-indication.html#tempo-indication">tempo indication</a>, <a name="index-metronome-mark-1447"></a><a href="../music-glossary/metronome-mark.html#metronome-mark">metronome mark</a>. <p>Notation Reference: <a href="Formatting-text.html#Formatting-text">Formatting text</a>, <a href="MIDI-output.html#MIDI-output">MIDI output</a>. <p>Snippets: <a href="../../../input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Staff-notation.html#Staff-notation">Staff notation</a>. <p>Internals Reference: <a name="index-MetronomeMark-1448"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/MetronomeMark.html#MetronomeMark">MetronomeMark</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Instrument-names.html#Instrument-names">Instrument names</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Writing-parts.html#Writing-parts">Writing parts</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> <P> Other languages: <a href="Metronome-marks.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="Metronome-marks.es.html">español</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>