\header { title = "Major Scales Exercise" subtitle = "for Beginners" arranger = "Scott Russell" } \version "2.6.3" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DEFINE the variable "scale" to have these characteristics: % use relative pitch notation, % don't print bar numbers at line beginnings, and % scale printed with quarter note "do" at beginning, middle, and end. global = { \time 4/2 \override Score.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t } scale = { c'8 d' e' f' g' f' e' d' c'2 r2 } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DEFINE the variable "allScales" to contains transposed versions of "scale" allScales = { \scale \transpose c f \scale \break \transpose c bes, \scale \transpose c ees \scale \break \transpose c aes, \scale \transpose c des \scale \break \transpose c cis \scale \transpose c ges \scale \break \transpose c fis \scale \transpose c ces \scale \break \transpose c b, \scale \transpose c e \scale \break \transpose c a, \scale \transpose c d \scale \break \transpose c g \scale \scale \bar "|." } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Create the complete score, printing "music" \score { << \global \allScales >> } \layout { % indent = 0.0 \cm }