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This example demonstrates how to include guitar position and barring indications.
\clef "G_8" b16 d16 g16 b16 e16 \textSpannerDown \override TextSpanner #'edge-text = #'("XII " . "") g16\startTextSpan b16 e16 g16 e16 b16 g16\stopTextSpan e16 b16 g16 d16
Stopped (X) note heads are used in guitar music to signal a place where the guitarist must play a certain note or chord, with its fingers just touching the strings instead of fully pressing them. This gives the sound a percussive noise-like sound that still maintains part of the original pitch. It is notated with cross noteheads; this is demonstrated in Special noteheads.
This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).