On 2/11/2018 8:30 AM, Hallvard Paulsen wrote:
Hello all
I am an absolute beginner when it comes to LilyPond and
musical scoremaking in general, so please correct me if I am not
behaving according to this lists rules.
(I also have very limited experience with the musical terms
in English, so please correct me if there is something obviously
wrong.)
The thing is that my grown son (23years this year) is playing
in a Rock Band consisiting of 7members all having some degree of
mental disablility.
There are 2 keyboardists, a simplified bass, and a simplified
guitar, and a vocalist using scores or lyrics, and 2
drummers/percusionists who manage without.
The thing is that they are using "
Dissimilis Notation",
(octaves have no relevance for us) where the note pitch is shown
using a mix of colors and numbers, and duration is basically
given by some assistant pointing to the color to be played. (In
general the beat is almost allways 4/4, the keyboards play hole
notes, the bass halfnotes, the guitar quarter notes, and they
only change notes/chords at the beginning of the new bar. I have
attached a PDF as an example (usually there are many more bars,
but it seams Hungry Hart can be played by repeating these 4 over
and over again.
I was hopeing it would be possible to use lilypond to produce
scores with a mixture colored/numbered noteheads, and also MIDI
files to play the voices of any missing bandmember should they
not be able to attend a rehersal. Also good "pointers" are hard
to find, and even harder to keep over time, so if their job
could be "automated away" to some degree, it would make the
future much more predictable.
Hi Hallvard,
It is certainly possible to create colored notes, stems, etc. in
LilyPond...have you already downloaded and installed the program?
To get you started, here is a page from the documentation that talks
about coloring objects:
Once you decide what notes you would like to input, and on what
staff type you would like, etc. then you can begin to tweak the
colors until you are satisfied.
Also, MIDI output is possible in LilyPond as well, and you can
choose whichever GM instrument you'd like to use in the event of a
performance.
Also also, welcome to LilyPond :)