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Re: TAB question


From: David Stocker
Subject: Re: TAB question
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:09:50 -0500
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Hal Leonard, probably the largest single producer of TAB books uses a note staff and TAB staff combination. It's my opinion that this is the optimal way to display guitar music if you're using TAB because it's the most unambiguous: music information is clear to non-guitarists and fretboard position is clearly indicated which can be significant on fretboard instruments to achieve certain effects like campaƱella. The use of TAB avoids cluttering the note staff with too many bits of information (like left-hand fingerings in addition string number indications). If you're using a TAB staff with no note staff, I think the best way is to use stems on the fret-numbers to indicate rhythm. Dotted notes simply have a dot like on notes in a note staff and white notes are indicated by placing a circle around the 'notes'. It would be nice to see these features available in LilyPond.

If the developers are interested, I'm able to provide many examples of printed guitar tablature in various formats from various publishers (I spend my work life in this area). I've talked about it before on this list, but I'm interested working with other users to increase LilyPond support for fretted-instrument tablature. I'm not a programmer, so my contributions would be limited (at least at first) to consulting on appearance and placement of elements.

Dave

Johan Vromans wrote:
Ian Hulin <address@hidden> writes:

If you do this, how can the tab reader tell whether the notelength
is e2 or e1?

This question is not related to e2 having a stem or not...

I can imagine a stemless number with a circle arout it, or something
like that.

That's why my primary question is what the TAB standard is (are).

How do you tell anyway now whether it's e4 or e2?

e4 has a stem (just like an ordinary quarter note)
a2 should not have a stem (just like an ordinary half note)

-- Johan


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