On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:16:14 Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Are you suggesting that the replyers don't know how to "read music"? > (That would be a pretty strong accusation, which would effectively > kill the weight of the rest of your message.)
I am telling you that the vast majority of *guitar players* who use tab are musically illiterate. That is my experience, not a suggestion. Your replyers are hardly a representative sample. If they couldn't read music they wouldn't be replyers. > FWIW, I don't have any references that say anything about how strings > are supposed to be numbered. In the old edition of Gardner Read it's on page 377, under string notation - 1. Harmonics - paragraph 4. Perhaps he says something about banjo in your newer edition where the top string in pitch is the 5th? It's probably under harmonics in Stone too. I saw it in the book but don't recall where. Also see: >>> http://www.music.utk.edu/theory/strings.html > Right now, there is no syntax for string indication, the tablature > code supposes that the strings encoded by numbers, and that that > number is encoded in the fingering number, i.e. > > c4-3 > > will put a fingering 3 on the note in normal staff, but put the note > on string 3 on the tab staff (whereever that is). > > The current proposition is to use pitch names for indicating strings > and continue the use of numbers for fingerings, i.e. > > c4-3-a > > play with 3rd finger, on string known as "a". I see. Use :3 or ;3 for the string, or some other separator that is available to you. Continue to use ^3 or _3 for the finger in the notation. -3 would be much better to put a finger in front of a note. I do a *lot* of fingering, and I have always avoided -3 for 'default' fingering, even on a single staff, which is the only way it works at all. To use another separator to put a finger in front of a note and use a `-' for something entirely different is painting yourself into a corner. Unless you have some plan to *never* allow a finger number in front of a note. Not a good plan. And please consider this user syntax for setting up tab: \string { [open string note] [open string symbol printed] [1st half step symbol printed] [2nd half step symbol printed] ... } \string { [open string note] [open string symbol printed] [1st half step symbol printed] [2nd half step symbol printed] ... } \string { [open string note] [open string symbol printed] [1st half step symbol printed] [2nd half step symbol printed] ... } ... Which in real life for guitar: \string e' \string b \string g \string d \string a, \string e, or banjo: \string d' \string b \string g \string d \string g' 0 6 would be very intuitive, since you would have one tab line for each \string, in the usual order as printed. ------------------------------------------------------------ Information is not knowledge. Belief is not truth. Indoctrination is not teaching. Tradition is not evidence. David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
