LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible - lilypond.org / wikipedia

see also

• Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music - reviews origin of musical notation and alternative proposal.

Install / online

Front-end Applications

• Denemo
• Frescobaldi - sheet music text editor.

VSLilyPond - Music IDE: Lilypond in Visual Studio Code

• Setup Guide

Aternatives

• TuxGuitar - easier edit for Tabs - Exporting tabs from TuxGuitar to Lilypond - and fixing them with convert-ly

convert-ly tuxguitar_export.ly > converted.ly

• MuseScore

Doc

• intro
  • Notes are encoded with letters and numbers.
  • Alterations are made with different names: add -is for sharp, and -es for flat.
  • enclose pitches in < > for chords
  • Special commands are entered with backslashes.

• tutorial

• Line breaking ` \break`

Drums

With the exception of the snare and bass drum, there seems to be no consensus about where individual sound sources should be placed on the staff. - Customizing Note Layout

• Drum Music 1 - Getting Started
• Noting a buzz roll
• Showing “4/4” instead of “C” - \numericTimeSignature
• Isolated percent repeats
• Extend measure so it occupies whole line

Guitar

• Guitar ref
  • tablatures
  • Fret
    • Fret diagram / \fret-diagram
  • fingers
  • String Specific Notation - hammer - pulloff - bend
  • chords - chord with different note lengths (half and quarter)
  • tuplet
  • 4/4 vs C
  • key signature
• advanced tutorial