Re: Showing Beats in Complex Music

[Marc Hohl]

Am 31.01.2011 19:16, schrieb Laurentin Lévesque:
> With my choir we're doing lots of highly syncopated music this year.  I am
> trying to rewrite my voice parts (with the lyrics) while having the beatcounts
> printed on top of the staff in their proper location with respect to the
> syncopated notes.  Could someone give me a few hints on where to look for
> starters (i.e. 'invisible' voice/staff contexts with 'visible' 1, 2, 3, 4,
> markers? or what? - the \addlyrics feature seems to complicate things a bit.)
> Merci,
> L
You can give explicit durations to the numbers like this:

melody = \relative c' { c8. d16 ~ d8 e ~ e16 d c b ~b 4}
\score {
  \new StaffGroup <<
    \new Staff {
      \new Voice { \melody}
    }
    \lyricmode { \new Lyrics { "1"4  "2" "3" "4" } }
>>
}

HTH

Marc
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