Hi Walt, I’m just starting to get into this so there’s still a lot to figure out. I am using a tab staff with a custom tuning and there are some previous threads I’d found useful:
The most notable is this one which has given me various clues as to how to format in a variety of potentially more relevant ways to some of the pedal steel conventions (should that be necessary in my case). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-01/msg00246.html In this thread the notation is dealt with separately for tab and stave notation and the alterations are applied to the notes in the tab (and not the tuning). I think I will likely write some scheme code that is able to do this kind of thing automatically (given a string specification per note and some way of indicating pedals). Changing the tuning temporally would be more correct, but it’s likely easier to change the music going into the tab system than to mess with that - I will look at that as an option though. The thread above shows how to put pedals in the tab next to frets, but I think I’ll end up with them under the stave, partly due to the details I’d like to add to them. I’m not a pedal steel player at all, and my usage is pretty esoteric (musically and likely in terms of the look of the score), so I’m just in a notation research phase to figure it out. I’ve got a lot of experience as a programmer in general, but my lilypond knowledge is more limited, so I’m hoping (as in the past) that my determination will get me through. In a previous project I made a custom look woodwind fingering by modifying what is in the internal scm as a separate file for instance. Happy to share what I come up with in this case if it might be of use. Alex > On 4 Nov 2024, at 23:32, Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't have an answer to your question but I am curious how are you handling > the varying string pitch changes related to pedal usage. I assume you are > using TabStaff with custom turnings. Do you switch back and forth between > custom turnings when pedals are pressed or released? Just a general question > because I've been hesitant so far to dive into tabs for my pedal steel. I've > also have not experimented yet with non-re entrant E9 tuning. I have found > tabstaff works fairly well for lap steel tabs with c6th and D7. > > > Walt North >
