Re: Putting fret diagrams in a separate score

[Marc Hohl]

Am 12.03.2011 21:39, schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> On 3/12/11 1:19 AM, "Marc Hohl"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Am 11.03.2011 18:52, schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> > > Why not just use a FretBoards context?
> > Good question; it looked way too complicated for my purposes.
> > I need some chords played on a mandolin, and there are no
> > predefined fretboard diagrams for mandolin[1] in lilypond.
> >
> > [1] Searching the internet, there seems to be the general opinion
> > that mandolins aren't supposed to play chords at all, but it sounds
> > cool ;-)
> A quick search for "mandolin chords" on google showed lots of places with
> chord diagrams for mandolin.  I'm sure that we'd welcome the addition of
> predefined-mandolin-fretboards.  I don't play the mandolin, so I'm probably
> not the guy to do it, but I'd be happy to provide advice.
>
> The chords at
>
> www.mandolincafe.com/pdf/pat.pdf
Even better:

http://sheetmusicdigital.com/pdfopen.asp?ID=DL10000622

I'll take these two as reference.

marc
> would be very useful as chord shapes, since they have no open strings and
> can therefore be moved all around the fretboard to play whatever root is
> desired.
>
> Do you want to move toward that?
>
> Carl