4.9 Rhythmic music

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:

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

• Percussion staves
• Percussion MIDI output

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