## 2 Tutorial

This tutorial starts with a short introduction to the LilyPond music language. After this first contact we will show you how to produce printed output. Then you will be able to create and print your own sheets of music.

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 the full input into a test file, 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 all commands for quick reference.

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