Re: [PATCH:] Doc: adding palm mute to fretted-strings.itely

[Marc Hohl]

Graham Percival schrieb:
> Thanks, applied.
>
> That said, are you certain that you didn't screw up the \\relative
> line?  The notes look awfully low, but I'm not a guitarist so I could
> be wrong.
>   
No, the low notes are correct - the palm mute technique works
best on the lowest strings where you can fine-tune the sound
of the muted strings.
(Hehe, with a seven-string axe tuned to drop a we even got
seven halftone steps lower - and we don't smile on MTV :-)
> Also, we generally try to keep the output down to one line.  Does the
> second bar really add anything to the example?  Could you condense the
> example down to 3 bars instead of 4?
>   
Sorry, I compiled the stuff separately first and the output had just
one line, and I didn't check the notation output properly.
> I'm not too fussed since this is just in NR 2.4 so only guitarists
> will be looking at it, but you might want to double-check these
> things.
>   
Thanks for your remarks!

Marc

>From fa06a8f82993386eca0c5c3b72e11c7c914beb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Hohl <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:02:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: shortened palm mute example

---
 Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely 
b/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
index b89790f..601700d 100644
--- a/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
+++ b/Documentation/notation/fretted-strings.itely
@@ -1514,13 +1514,10 @@ triangle shape.
     \clef "G_8"
     \palmMuteOn
     e8^\markup { \musicglyph #"noteheads.u2do"  = palm mute }
-    e e
+    < e b' e > e
     \palmMuteOff
     e e  \palmMute e e e |
     e8 \palmMute { e e e } e e e e |
-    \palmMuteOn
-    < e b' e >8 e e e < e b' e >2
-    \palmMuteOff |
     < \palmMute e b' e >8 \palmMute { e e e } < \palmMute e b' e >2
   }
 }
-- 
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