Re: reusing melody in different TabVoice instruments

[Walt North]

This is working great for the most part.  One thing I have had a bit of 
trouble with is octave.  But I have a workaround that will work for the 
most part for simple cases.

There are a handful of notes that I want in different octave for some 
instruments.  \resetRelativeOctave does not seem to work when in the 
tweaked code.  But for those handful of cases I can put a skip in the 
main melody and then the specific octave note in the tweaked line,

\version "2.24.2"

melody = \relative c' {
 c4 d e f |
 c d e f |
 s1 |
}

guitarTweaks = {
  s1 |
  \set restrainOpenStrings = ##f
  \set minimumFret = #3
  s4\3 s4*3 |
  c'1 |
}

banjoTweaks = {
  s1 |
  \set restrainOpenStrings = ##f
  \set minimumFret = #1
  s4\3 s4*3 |
  c''1 |
}

\markup Guitar
\score {
  \new TabStaff {
    \new TabVoice {
      <<
        \melody
        \guitarTweaks
      >>
    }
  }
}

\markup Banjo
\score {
  \new TabStaff \with {
    stringTunings = #banjo-open-g-tuning
  } {
    \new TabVoice {
      <<
        \melody
        \banjoTweaks
      >>
    }
  }

}

On 9/10/2024 12:05 PM, Walt North wrote:

> Excellent - exactly what I was looking for..
>
> On 9/10/2024 11:58 AM, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 17:04, Walt North <waltnorth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any way to do this? What follows is a made up example.  I 
> > have a melody that may be shared across different string instruments.
> > >
> > > I'd like to be able to reuse the melody notes and not repeat that 
> > for each instrument. The different instruments may require different 
> > restrain option, minimum frets and/or string numbers throughout the 
> > piece.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This seems to work.
> >
> > guitarTweaks = {
> >   s1 |
> >   \set restrainOpenStrings = ##t
> >   \set minimumFret = #3
> >   s4\3 s4*3 |
> > }
> >
> > banjoTweaks = {
> >   s1 |
> >   \set restrainOpenStrings = ##f
> >   \set minimumFret = #5
> >   s4\4 s4*3 |
> > }
> >
> > \markup Guitar
> > \score {
> >   \new TabStaff {
> >     \new TabVoice {
> >       <<
> >         \melody
> >         \guitarTweaks
> >       >>
> >     }
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > \markup Banjo
> > \score {
> >   \new TabStaff \with {
> >     stringTunings = #banjo-open-g-tuning
> >   } {
> >     \new TabVoice {
> >       <<
> >         \melody
> >         \banjoTweaks
> >       >>
> >     }
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Xavier