Re: Drum parts and horizontal beams

[Jonathan Kulp]

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Nick Payne wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
>
> > > >
> > > You must set the beam-damping to +inf.0
> > >
> > >  \override Beam #'damping = #+inf.0
> > Is it possible to do the reverse - give every beam a slight slope without
> > explicitly setting the start and end position of every beam? I have a 
> > piece
> > I'm engraving where because of the shape of the arpeggios (the whole 
> > piece
> > is arpeggios), Lilypond engraves every beam as horizontal, but I actually
> > think it would look better if every beam was slightly sloped. See the
> > attached PNG, where I changed the slope of the first beam using \once
> > \override Beam #'positions = #'(3 . 4), and the second beam uses the
> > automatic placing. I'd like every beam to have the same slope as the 1st
> > without having to add a beam position override for every bar. I played
> > around with overriding the concaveness and damping beam properties 
> > without
> > getting anything but horizontal beams.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Beam damping property is still probably what you want to adjust.  If 
> you give it a value like 100000 you should get a slight tilt to the beam:
>
>          \override Beam #'damping = #100000
>
> If you make that -100000 it will make it tilt a bit the other way.
>
> Jon

Just experimenting a bit more with this, I discover that you get more 
noticeable results if you use much smaller numbers, like #1.5 or #3 or 
#-2.  I went with the 100000 number before b/c that used to be in a 
snippet in the fretted strings docs and that was the only example I had. :)

Jon


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