VocalEasel/mma/egs/solo/solo.mma

// This file attempts to show a number of different ways
// solo (melody) can be created in MMA with the Solo track.
// We're using the popular (if you are 3 years old) melody
// "Mary had a little lamb" for all the examples.


Keysig F
Tempo 150

Groove Folk

/// Set up a solo track with a flute. Set the notes in {} after each
/// chord. This is the easy-concept but hard-to-do version.

Begin Solo
  Voice Flute
  Octave 5
  Articulate 90
  Rvolume 10
  Rtime 5
End

1  F   { 4.a;8g;4f;g; }
2  /   { 4a;;2; }
3  C7  { 4g;;2; }
4  F   { 4a;c+;2; }
5  /   { 4.a;8g;4f;g; }
6  /   { 4a;;;; }
7  C7  { 4g;;a;g; }
8  F   { 2.f; }

///////////////////////////////////////
/// Same notes and chords. This time we
/// use riffs in the solo block and add
/// a harmony.


Groove FolkBallad

Begin Solo
  Voice Flute
  Octave 5
  Articulate 90
  Rvolume 10
  Rtime 5
  Harmony 3Below
  Begin Riff
    4.a;8g;4f;g; 
    4a;;2; 
    4g;;2; 
    4a;c+;2; 
    4.a;8g;4f;g; 
    4a;;;; 
    4g;;a;g; 
    2.f; 
  End /// end riff
End  /// end Solo

1  F 
2  / 
3  C7
4  F 
5  / 
6  / 
7  C7
8  F 

///////////////////////////////////////
/// Third time. Use the melody via a mset
/// so it can be duplicated into 2 solo 
/// tracks (melody and harmony)

label foo
Groove Dixie

Mset Mary
  Begin Riff
    4.a;8g;4f;g; 
    4a;;2; 
    4g;;2; 
    4a;c+;2; 
    4.a;8g;4f;g; 
    4a;;;; 
    4g;;a;g; 
    2.f; 
  ENd
Msetend

Begin Solo
  Voice Flute
  Harmony None
  Octave 5
  Volume ff
  Articulate 90
  Rvolume 10
  Rtime 5
  $Mary  
End

Begin Solo-Harmony
  Voice Clarinet
  Octave 5
  HarmonyOnly OpenAbove
  Volume mp
  Articulate 80
  Rtime 10
  Rvolume 0,10
  $Mary
End

1  F 
2  / 
3  C7
4  F 
5  / 
6  / 
7  C7
Groove DixieEnd
8  F z!