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Sometimes you might want to show only the rhythm of a melody. 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
<< \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 } } >>
Guitar chord charts often show the strumming rhythms. This can
be done with the Pitch_squash_engraver
and
\improvisationOn
.
<< \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 } >>
\improvisationOn
,
\improvisationOff
.
For guitar music, it is possible to show strum rhythms, along with melody notes, chord names, and fret diagrams.
\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. } } >>
Snippets: Rhythms.
Internals Reference: RhythmicStaff, Pitch_squash_engraver.
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