Other guitar issues - GNU LilyPond
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#### 7.5.6 Other guitar issues

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.

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