Hello, First, congrats for all the new features in since 1.6, I am very impressed and my scores look a lot better. Since I'm a good tester for drums and guitar (I do all my music with lilypond) I have a few guitar tab questions:
- Hammer/Tap/Pull-off support: in a guitar tab, you can do tapping, which is a technique consisting in not using your right hand to squeeze the string, but hit it at the wanted fret to produce a sound, or pull the string of of where it was pressed to let a lower pressed note sound. In guitar tablature this is usually done by having a H,T,P letter above the tablature number and having the notes slured. In the case of a Hammer, the note is slured from nothing. The way I do it now is with normal text on top of the note, but would be easier to have that as an articulation. - Unfretted notes: these are produced when you mute the string(s) with your left hand without actually pressing them at any fret, and picking them with your right hand, it produces a percussion sound. The actual note head and tablature head should be a cross (x) while you can still specify an approximate note for it for the musical stave. - Palm-mute: this is when you leave your hand laying slightly on the string while playing normally, it produces a mufled sound which is very commonly used. The notation is usually a "P.M." sign under the first note, and a dashed line going from this sign until the last note that is palm-muted, thus making it possible to have whole sections of palm-mute. - glissandos to or from nowhere: in guitar tablature, you can have glissandos to no note, up and down. Right now in lilypond, if I want a glissando, I have to put a note to gliss to, or from, but in typical guitar tablature you are not bound to gliss exactly to or from an exact note, it is usually implied that the glissando should be done to or from the farthest place possible on the fretboard. - Harmonics: you can play a harmonic on a string by touching the string but not pressing it down the fret, at a specified position and then sqeazing it with your right hand. Typical notation is to specify normally where the string is touched by a number, and having the text "harm." on top of it, while the note from the partition stave has a square head. You can also have artificial harmonics of two sorts, the first is when you need to press a tab with your left hand while tapping the wanted harmonic with your right hand. In this case the notation is to write the pressed tab normally, while having the harmonic tab between parethesis. The second kind is more complex and I haven't checked all my notations for consensus. Is there any plans to implement such things ? If yes, I will make all the research needed about exactly how it should look and all the special cases, and will provide all the info I can gather. Thanks. -- Stéphane Epardaud _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
