Re: [tablatures] TAB-guide

[Patrick Schmidt <p.l.schmidt@xxxxxx>]

Am 09.12.2010 um 09:53 schrieb Marc Hohl:

> Am 08.12.2010 00:01, schrieb Patrick Schmidt:
> > [...]
> > Here is the promised file.
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I had a look at it now and changed so parts, see the blue lines and  
> comments marḱed with %++ .
> I think this file is a great base to discuss and improve. Perhaps  
> you should upload it to rietveld?
> So we can comment on it more easily without sending the whole file  
> again and again...
Thanks for your comments and corrections! Some new features obviously  
had escaped my notice. @Marc&Carl: Thanks very much for q and  
\chordGlissando. The latter should definitely be included in the next  
LP version. It makes life a lot easier. I could document this feature  
when I rework the "Slides".

If no one objects I will upload the TAB-guide to rietveld???!!!
> Are the circled/triangled/squared fret numbers the official way for  
> showing tappings?
> I have seen stuff like this, but it looked mostly very crude, and I  
> think there will be spacing
> problems when tapping two adjacent strings simultaneously, but with  
> smaller numbers, this
> could be solved.
As far as I can see there is no "official" way to illustrate tappings.
Total guitar (magazine) uses squares for left hand tappings, circles  
for right hand tappings (and triangles for pinched harmonics)
Totally Guitar (book) also uses circles for right hand tappings and  
text markups in combination with inverted upward archs for left hand  
tappings
Most of the other editions I own use a "T" for right hand tapping and  
"H" or "HO" for left hand tapping which might be preferable as left  
hand tapping doesn't really need an own symbol as it is just a simple  
hammer-on/pull-off. As some editions use circles in tablature to  
indicate long note values (which looks a bit strange, indeed) I'd  
agree that circles and squares are not really needed for tapping.  
I'll adjust the snippets in TAB-guide.ly.
> You mention a tab key at the end of your file. Do you mean  
> something like
>
> e--
> b--
> g--
> D--
> A--
> E--
>
> at the beginning of each tablature line?
Basically yes, but I think one tab key at the beginning of a piece  
should suffice. I attached two samples (see also http:// 
permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/27444. A while ago  
someone claimed to have found a solution/tweak? for a tab key but  
IIRC he didn't share it with the list.)
> I thought about it, and IMHO the definition of the string tunings  
> won't allow for this in case of
> eb/d#, so a more elegant way would be to define the string tunings  
> via pitches, not numbers relative to c.
> For example
>
> \set stringTunings = '(e,, a,, d, g, b, e)
>
> would be easier from a user's point of view, and the piches could  
> be easily used for a tab key.
It certainly would. That's a great idea! It would also be very  
helpful if it were possible to automatically print the right tab key  
for each string tuning by entering e.g. \tabKey.


Thanks for all your work!

patrick