Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Question 2) still remains....
There will be other problems like this in the bars to come, each
needing a special effort to overcome, usually in an unsatisfactory
way. This is because you are trying to put overlapping durations into
a single voice.
Try starting again, but this time using several voices.
A clear example of doing this for guitar was quoted [1] here recently.
See, for example, how the bass line keeps sounding while other notes
are being plucked.
And it shows that you needn't stop at bass/middle/top; you even can
put other things (like dynamics) into separate voices.
The things for overlapping durations, e.g.
- tieWaitForNote
- the polyphonic construct << ... \\ ... >>
- laisserVibrer
are still available of course. But if you have sufficient voices you
will rarely need them.
There are occasionally new problems to do with coordination between
the several voices but these are a lot easier to solve.
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-08/msg01197.html