2 Tutorial

This tutorial starts with an introduction to the LilyPond music language and how to produce printed music. After this first contact we will explain how to create common musical notation.

Many people learn programs by trying and fiddling around with the program. This is also possible with LilyPond. If you click on a picture in the HTML version of this manual, you will see the exact LilyPond input that was used to generate that image. Try it on this image

By cutting and pasting everything in the “ly snippet” section, you have a starting template for experiments. If you like learning in this way, you will probably want to print out or bookmark the Cheat sheet, which is a table listing of the most common commands for quick reference.

• First steps
• Single staff notation
• Multiple notes at once
• Songs
• Final touches

Other languages: French.