\version "2.16.0" #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'landscape) \header { title = "Power of Music" subtitle = "as executed by Tom Briggs" arranger = "Arranged by Buckley" instrument = "Banjo" tagline = "From Phil Rice's Banjo Instructor, 1858" } % TODO see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#fingering-instructions for positioning fret notes and adding strike fingers %http://hrabbey.homeip.net/cgi-bin/info2www?(lilypond-notation)Custom+tablatures PartA = { e8.-0 gis16-0 b8.-0 d16-4 | cis8-2 a-1 e' e | d-4 (b)-p e e | cis8-2 a-1 e'4 | e,8-0 gis-0 b-0 d-0 | cis8-2 a-1 e' e | d-4 (b)-p e cis | a4-1 a,8-0 e'' | } PartB = { % (4th bar in this section originally started with f as written, but % is has to be a typo given fret instructions and the fact that it % sounds terrible) d-4 d-4 \times 2/3 { e (d e) } | cis-2 cis-2 \times 2/3 { e (cis e) } | e,-0 gis-0 b-0 e | e,-0 a-1 cis-2 e d-4 d-4 \times 2/3 { e (d e) } | cis-2 cis-2 \times 2/3 { e (cis e) } | e,-0 gis-0 b e | a,4-1 a,4-0 } \score { \transpose a g { \relative e'{ \time 2/4 \key a \major \repeat volta 2 { \PartA } \repeat volta 2 { \PartB } } } \layout {} } %Unfold repeats & shift octave down for midi output \score { \unfoldRepeats \transpose a g { \relative e{ \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"banjo" \time 2/4 \key a \major \repeat volta 2 { \PartA } \repeat volta 2 { \PartB } } } \midi {\tempo 4 = 110 } }