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

[rosea]

I see there's is some sort of tablature support in Mup, with bends and
slides...
http://www.arkkra.com/doc/uguide/tabstaff.html

Would be nice if we get it in Lilypond too.

Thanks in advance,



notesetter wrote:
> 
> 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 Tab Legend posted by Rosea is a bit outdated.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:
>>>   
>>>> 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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