<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <!-- header_tag --> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Showing melody rhythms - 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="Displaying-rhythms.html#Displaying-rhythms" title="Displaying rhythms"> <link rel="prev" href="Automatic-note-splitting.html#Automatic-note-splitting" title="Automatic note splitting"> <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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This can be done with the rhythmic staff. All pitches of notes on such a staff are squashed, and the staff itself has a single line <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> << \new RhythmicStaff { \new Voice = "myRhythm" { \time 4/4 c4 e8 f g2 r4 g g f g1 } } \new Lyrics { \lyricsto "myRhythm" { This is my song I like to sing } } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../ac/lily-eb93211c.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../ac/lily-eb93211c.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Guitar chord charts often show the strumming rhythms. This can be done with the <code>Pitch_squash_engraver</code> and <code>\improvisationOn</code>. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> << \new ChordNames { \chordmode { c1 f g c } } \new Voice \with { \consists Pitch_squash_engraver } \relative c'' { \improvisationOn c4 c8 c c4 c8 c f4 f8 f f4 f8 f g4 g8 g g4 g8 g c4 c8 c c4 c8 c } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../81/lily-e5cb6883.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../81/lily-e5cb6883.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">Predefined commands</h5> <p><code>\improvisationOn</code>, <code>\improvisationOff</code>. <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">Selected Snippets</h5> <!-- TODO - Convert to snippet; --> <!-- tag for both Rhythms and Guitar? Move to @seealso? --> <p>For guitar music, it is possible to show strum rhythms, along with melody notes, chord names, and fret diagrams. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly" << \new ChordNames { \chordmode { c1 f g c } } \new FretBoards { \chordmode { c1 f g c } } \new Voice \with { \consists Pitch_squash_engraver } \relative c'' { \improvisationOn c4 c8 c c4 c8 c f4 f8 f f4 f8 f g4 g8 g g4 g8 g c4 c8 c c4 c8 c } \new Voice = "melody" { \relative c'' { \improvisationOff c2 e4 e4 f2. r4 g2. a4 e4 c2. } } \new Lyrics { \lyricsto "melody" { This is my song. I like to sing. } } >> </pre> <p> <a href="../24/lily-9d24c995.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../24/lily-9d24c995.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">See also</h5> <p class="indent"> <p>Snippets: <a href="../../../input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Rhythms.html#Rhythms">Rhythms</a>. <p>Internals Reference: <a name="index-RhythmicStaff-592"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/RhythmicStaff.html#RhythmicStaff">RhythmicStaff</a>, <a name="index-Pitch_005fsquash_005fengraver-593"></a><a href="../lilypond-internals/Pitch_005fsquash_005fengraver.html#Pitch_005fsquash_005fengraver">Pitch_squash_engraver</a>. <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Automatic-note-splitting.html#Automatic-note-splitting">Automatic note splitting</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Displaying-rhythms.html#Displaying-rhythms">Displaying rhythms</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="Showing-melody-rhythms.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="Showing-melody-rhythms.es.html">español</a>, <a href="Showing-melody-rhythms.de.html">deutsch</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>