Showing melody rhythms - GNU LilyPond
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#### 7.4.1 Showing melody rhythms

Sometimes you might want to show only the rhythm of a melody. This can be done with the rhythmic staff. All pitches of notes on such a staff are squashed, and the staff itself has a single line

>          \new RhythmicStaff {
>            \time 4/4
>            c4 e8 f g2 | r4 g r2 | g1:32 | r1 |
>          }

##### See also

Program reference: RhythmicStaff.

Examples: `input/regression/rhythmic-staff.ly`.

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