Re: notation and tablature (+bend, slide etc.)

[notesetter]

I'd like to second rosea's sentiment about tablature. I'm just learning
LilyPond and would like to help the programmers improve LilyPond's support
for fretted instrument tablature, including support for bends, slides,
ligado and the various other instrument specific notations.

I've been a professional guitar transcriber and music engraver for about 8
years and I currently work with 2 of the largest publishers on their
guitar/TAB publications on a freelance basis. As of right now, I am prepared
to help in a consulting capacity for improvements in these areas (I have no
background in programming). In the future, I may be able to sponsor new
features (especially in conjunction with other sponsors) that will improve
LilyPond's capacity to write fretted instrument tablature.

If there's anyone working on improving these features currently, please let
me know if you have questions about shapes/exact placement/etc. The Tab
Legend posted by Rosea is a bit outdated. Although most of the symbols in
current usage are similar to those on the legend, I feel their placement in
the score needs to be updated. Caveat: I tend to work slowly, so for me,
this would be a long-term commitment and I wouldn't expect results to be
immediate.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do (consulting on
appearance/placement of symbols, testing new features, etc.)

Thanks to the developers and everyone who posts helpful information to this
list. Of all the notation tools I have used or tried, LilyPond is the most
dynamic and exciting.

Best regards,

David Stocker


rosea wrote:
> 
> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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>> Am Montag, 30. Juni 2008 schrieb rosea:
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>>> I was wondering if Lilypond also supports tablature features for guitar
>>> like: slides, hammer on, pull off, bend etc.
>>>     
>>
>> It supports bend. About the others, I'm not sure. When I wrote
>> musicxml2ly, I 
>> was looking for them, but then I don't know how they should look in the 
>> score, anyway.
>>
>> Maybe you can give some examples for them?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Reinhold
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> Hi all,
> 
> I've made a scan of the notation-tablature-legend from the book 'Eric 
> Clapton - Unplugged', (which is one of the best selling guitar books I 
> think).
> 
> I made a *.png and a *.pdf you can download here: 
> http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?id=manuals_tutorials_and_howto_s&cache=cache&media=notation_tablature_legend_clapton.pdf
>  
> 
> 
> http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1259/notationtablatureclaptolc8.png
> 
> I didn't find options for bends, pull off, slide, hammer on etc. for 
> Lilypond and I think there are a lot of guitarists, bass players and 
> more, who would love to see a better tablature support for Lilypond. 
> Especially now with the export function in TuxGuitar to Lilypond.
> 
> I'm looking forward for reactions and I hope some smart guys can make 
> this happen for Lilypond. If I can give support or if you need more 
> information about tablature and notation, you can always ask!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Roooz
> 
> 
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