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Re: TAB question


From: Grammostola Rosea
Subject: Re: TAB question
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:11:25 +0100
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David Stocker wrote:
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.


Any comments on this great offer from David? Would be nice if tablature in Lilypond would be improved...
Or do we need to sponsor such developments?

Kind regards,

\r




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