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I've been dabbling a little in transcribing the solea of José Menese and Manolo Brenes from Rito y Geografia del Cante. Attached here is the first page (there are 2 more pages sketched out waiting to be tapped into the computer). I'm writing this out in Lilypond (with Frescobaldi) - which I'm very new to. Posting here in case anyone finds this useful, or if anyone has any comments on either accuracy, transcription choices or tips for lilypond.
RE: Solea de José Menese y Manolo B... (in reply to Dudnote)
Page two.
The final line of page 2 is causing me issues - I can't work out how to get Lilypond to give me two slur lines for each of the two finger hammer ons. I tried using two "voices" but the "tuplet" command seems to conflict with that. Anyone know a hack for that?
RE: Solea de José Menese y Manolo B... (in reply to Dudnote)
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I'm writing this out in Lilypond (with Frescobaldi) - which I'm very new to. Posting here in case anyone finds this useful, or if anyone has any comments on either accuracy, transcription choices or tips for lilypond.
About a year ago I studied Lilypond (and I also was using Frescobaldi). I put together, from what I've found and my own modifications, a suite of definitions relevant to flamenco and useful aliases, in a file you can just include and then use all the commands and shortcuts to be able to write out rasgueados with finger and direction notation, golpes, other things like a more accented strike is double-stemmed arrow, etc.. So you can get stuff to display like what you see in the image below.
I am enclosing my flamenco notation file (the text file) if you are interested. You'd have to rename it as .ly and then include it as e.g. \include "./flamenco_notation.ly" in your lilypond file to use it.
NOTE: The rasgueados above may not be correct - I just dug out an archived file I could find quickly. I remember Ricardo commenting that there was an inconsistency in the way the rasgueados were done for this, and I don't remember if this here is before or after I fixed it. So the image is just for illustrative purposes.
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"When multiple regular slurs are needed in a single Voice, matching slur starts and ends need to be labelled by preceding them with \= followed by an identifying key (a symbol or non-negative integer)."
Like so:
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RE: Solea de José Menese y Manolo B... (in reply to kitarist)
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ORIGINAL: kitarist "When multiple regular slurs are needed in a single Voice...
Muchas gracias Kitarist for these posts. I hadn't seen that example in the help files, so was very excited by your 2nd post. But then I completely failed to get their example working on my computer - sounded good in theory, but didn't work in practice. I'll take this one to the lilypond forum and see what that gives.
Just noticed page 1 compas 1 on my second upload developed a bug at some point too, so anyone wanting to use this, use page one from the first upload not the second.
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ORIGINAL: kitarist About a year ago I studied Lilypond
Hmm, past tense huh!! The learning curve is definitely a steep one!
RE: Solea de José Menese y Manolo B... (in reply to Dudnote)
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I hadn't seen that example in the help files, so was very excited by your 2nd post. But then I completely failed to get their example working on my computer - sounded good in theory, but didn't work in practice. I'll take this one to the lilypond forum and see what that gives.
You are using an older version of lilypond; maybe this is why you are having issues. I noticed you are using 2.18[.2] whereas I am using 2.19[.81] which a year ago was the latest stable version and it is the 2.19 version that the example was drawn from (see the link above).
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Hmm, past tense huh!! The learning curve is definitely a steep one!
I just haven't had time to work with it for the last year or so. It is on my list though; haven't abandoned it.
RE: Solea de José Menese y Manolo B... (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo I would replace those 5 tuplets with proper 6’s up and down, which I feel was his intention even if that m finger wasn’t always behaving.
Thanks Ricardo for the feedback. Yes why not. I actually try to practice it exactly as you suggest (that missing m is the Achilles heel of my own 6 note arpeggio) but then I opted for 5 on the score for accuracy. I even tried adding the missing m in grey, but couldn't see how to do it on the tab staff, so think I'll just fill it in in black.
Would you agree though that in compases 4 and 5 he's doing some arpegios with fewer than 5 notes? Seems like 4 notes to me.
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