Re: tremolo: 4/4 time, 2 half notes, single-slash tremolo question

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi William;

  Thank you! That is exactly what I needed.  I still don't have the
formula down pat, but I'll work on it until it is automatically
correct.

Ken

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 5:40 PM William Rehwinkel
<william@williamrehwinkel.net> wrote:
>
> Hey Kenneth,
>
> I think you may want to write `\repeat tremolo 4` instead of 2, because
> that will signify four repeating eighth notes, which will result in the
> time of a half note...unless i am misunderstanding.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -William
>
> On 7/18/22 20:34, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> >    I was able to generate two half-note, single-slashed tremolos in 4/4
> > time using the colon syntax, but do not understand how to get the same
> > effect with the repeat tremolo syntax:
> >
> >    \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8  | % m01
> >    <b d' fs'>2:8 q:8                                 | % m02
> >
> > bar #2 is correct where bar #1 results in the following bar check warning:
> >
> > Swan_Lake.ly:110:64: warning: barcheck failed at: 1/2
> >    \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8 \repeat tremolo 2 <b d' fs'>8
> >                                                                 | % m01
> >
> > I'd like to use the repeat tremolo syntax because I'd like midi output
> > to reflect the tremolo where the colon syntax is not understood for
> > midi output.
> >
> >    I'm apparently not doing the math correctly.
> >
> >    4/4 time, half notes, two 8th note tremolos
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
>
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