i’ve got 11 parts completely transposed, and i’m working on the 12th. i haven’t figured out how to insert just the chord names instead of the actual chords, so the last one i’m doing by hand, but it would have taken a lot longer if i had had to do all of them by hand.
this is so cool!
Below are TWO files. the first contains a line near the top that says :
\include “DQDFnotesnew.ly”
This simply adds the text from the 2nd file – “DQDFnotes.ly” into the first file.
The First file is most of the formatting stuff and the secons file is all the notes and chords
I find this way to be tidier and easier to work with, if you need to change a note, you know where it is and if you need to change the formatting (page dimention, type size, add a staff, etc….) you don’t need to scroll up and down through hundreds of notes to find the spot.
Anyway, this is the first file:
{\version “2.8.6”}
%%%%%%%make larger
#(set-global-staff-size 23)
#(set-default-paper-size “letter”)
\include “DQDFnotesnew.ly”
\paper {
%annotate-spacing = ##t
head-separation = 4
page-top-space = 4
after-title-space = 12
ragged-last-bottom = ##t
}
\header {
title = “Don Quixote and the Dragon of Fire”
instrument = “keyboard/guitar”
}
\score{
<< %music \new ChordNames{ \set chordChanges = ##t \harmonies} \new Staff{ \set Staff.midiInstrument = "piccolo" \clef treble \key a \minor \time 3/4 \relative c''{\cornetNotes} } >>
\midi {\tempo 4=63}
\layout { }
}
!!!!!!!!!!!!END of FIRST FILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SECOND FILE: “DQDFnotes.ly:”
harmonies = { \chordmode {
c2./e
c/e
e:m
e:m
g/d
g/d
b
b
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e2.:m a2.:m g2. b2. e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2. | e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2. | e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2. | e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2.
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
a2.:m g2. b2. e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2. | e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2. | e2.:m | a2.:m | g2. | b2.
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
e:m
}}
cornetNotes = {
%Intro
c2.~
c2. (
b~)
b
b~
b
b~
b\fermata
%low rumblings
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4^\segno e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
\repeat volta 2 {
b’2.~
b2.~
b2.
r8 b c d c b
%bar 5
c4 b a
gis8 a8~ a b~ b r
r2.
r4 r8 d c b
%bar 9
c4 b a
gis8 a~ a b~ b r
r2.
r4 r8 e, e e
%bar 13
g4 e2
r4 r8 e e e
a4 e2
r4 e8 e e e
%bar 17
b’2.~
b2.~
b2.~
b2.
}
%low rumblings
e,4\coda e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
%middle bit
b2.
c
d
dis
e
e4. c
d2.
dis
e
c
d
dis
e
e4. c
d2.
\override Score.RehearsalMark
#’break-visibility = #begin-of-line-invisible
dis \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #’self-alignment-X = #right
\mark “D.S. al coda ”
\bar “||”
\break
%coda
e4\coda e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 e4 r
e4 e e8 e8
e4 r r
\bar “|.”
}