Guitar slides - Revision history

Lemzwerg: Improve slightly

2025-12-14T21:21:41Z

Improve slightly

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:21, 14 December 2025
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	Unlike glissandos, slides may go from an imprecise point of the fretboard to a specific fret. A good way to do this is to add a hidden grace note before the note which is actually played, as demonstrated in the following example.		Unlike glissandos, slides may go from an imprecise point of the fretboard to a specific fret. A good way to do this is to add a hidden grace note before the note which is actually played, as demonstrated in the following example.

	<lilypond version="2.24" ~~full~~>		<lilypond version="2.24">
	%% Hide fret number: useful to draw slide into/from a casual point of		% Hide fret number: useful to draw slide into/from a casual point of
	%% the fretboard.		% the fretboard.

	hideFretNumber = {		hideFretNumber = {
	\once \hide TabNoteHead		\once \hide TabNoteHead
	\once \hide NoteHead		\once \hide NoteHead
	\once \~~hide~~ Stem		\once \omit Stem
			\once \omit Flag
	\once \override NoteHead.no-ledgers = ##t		\once \override NoteHead.no-ledgers = ##t
	\once \override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding = #0.3		\once \override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding = #0.3
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	\grace { \hideFretNumber g8\2 \glissando s2 } d2 \|		\grace { \hideFretNumber g8\2 \glissando s2 } d2 \|

	\grace { \hideFretNumber c,8 \glissando s } f4\5^\markup \tiny { Slide into }		\grace { \hideFretNumber c,8 \glissando s }
			f4\5^\markup \tiny { Slide into }
	\grace { \hideFretNumber f8 \glissando s } a4\4		\grace { \hideFretNumber f8 \glissando s } a4\4
	\grace { \hideFretNumber e'8\3 \glissando s } b4\3^\markup \tiny { Slide from }		\grace { \hideFretNumber e'8\3 \glissando s }
			b4\3^\markup \tiny { Slide from }
	\grace { \hideFretNumber b'8 \glissando s2 } g4 \|		\grace { \hideFretNumber b'8 \glissando s2 } g4 \|
	}		}
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	>>		>>
	}		}

	~~\paper { tagline = ##f }~~
	</lilypond>		</lilypond>

Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:27:16Z

New category

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:27, 21 November 2025
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	[[Category:Fretted strings]]		[[Category:Fretted strings]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]
			[[Category:Snippet]]

Lemzwerg at 22:54, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T22:54:02Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:54, 21 November 2025
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	[[Category:Fretted strings]]		[[Category:Fretted strings]]
	[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]		[[Category:Included in the official documentation]][[Category:Snippet]]

Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:52:28Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:52, 16 November 2025
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	Unlike glissandos, slides may go from an imprecise point of the fretboard to a specific fret. A good way to do this is to add a hidden grace note before the note which is actually played, as demonstrated in the following example.		Unlike glissandos, slides may go from an imprecise point of the fretboard to a specific fret. A good way to do this is to add a hidden grace note before the note which is actually played, as demonstrated in the following example.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	%% Hide fret number: useful to draw slide into/from a casual point of		%% Hide fret number: useful to draw slide into/from a casual point of
	%% the fretboard.		%% the fretboard.

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:42:38Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

Unlike glissandos, slides may go from an imprecise point of the fretboard to a specific fret. A good way to do this is to add a hidden grace note before the note which is actually played, as demonstrated in the following example.

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
%% Hide fret number: useful to draw slide into/from a casual point of
%% the fretboard.

hideFretNumber = {
\once \hide TabNoteHead
\once \hide NoteHead
\once \hide Stem
\once \override NoteHead.no-ledgers = ##t
\once \override Glissando.bound-details.left.padding = #0.3
}

music= \relative c' {
\grace { \hideFretNumber d8\2 \glissando s2 } g2\2
\grace { \hideFretNumber g8\2 \glissando s2 } d2 |

\grace { \hideFretNumber c,8 \glissando s } f4\5^\markup \tiny { Slide into }
\grace { \hideFretNumber f8 \glissando s } a4\4
\grace { \hideFretNumber e'8\3 \glissando s } b4\3^\markup \tiny { Slide from }
\grace { \hideFretNumber b'8 \glissando s2 } g4 |
}

\score {
<<
\new Staff {
\clef "G_8"
\music
}
\new TabStaff {
\music
}
>>
}

\paper { tagline = ##f }
</lilypond>

[[Category:Fretted strings]]
[[Category:Included in the official documentation]]