On 9/7/10 1:55 AM, "Steve Yegge" <steve.ye...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Lilypond gurus,
>
> I've been getting a bunch of requests for a tab or chord-diagram
> transcription of a ukulele piece I posted on YouTube. Is there any
> hope? The tuning is awful -- er, I mean, traditional, with the strings
> not increasing in pitch monotonically. IIRC it's GCEA, with the "low"
> G being raised an octave.
>
> Is there a set of hacks or best-practices lying around that I can use
> to whip something together for now? My understanding from the
> docs is that chord diagrams just won't work. I haven't played with a
> Tab Staff yet, but if there is no technical reason that it wouldn't work,
> then I can certainly figure it out and tackle it that way.
>
> Thanks for any advice here.
Both tab and fret-diagram calculation for ukulele could work, but you'd need
to specify a string for every pitch. The automatic tab calculator won't
support non-monotonic strings. That's an open feature request:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=703
However, fret diagrams for ukulele are certainly part of 2.13 (and could be
added to 2.12 just by copying the relevant lilypond input file:
ly/predefined-ukulele-fretboards.ly
For more information, please see
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fr
etted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams>
HTH,
Carl
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