"R.D. Latimer" <rdlati...@gmail.com> writes: > I'd like help getting started with transcribing fiddle tunes with music and > tab. > > Here's my initial try (first two measures) > The fingering for the violin is not correct in the tab. Fingering should be: > 2 0 0 2 0 0 | 3 1 1 3 0 1 |
That's a misunderstanding what a tab shows. The tab does not show fingerings but rather positions. And it counts those positions in "frets", namely semitones. As far as I can see, the results are quite correct. Now I haven't ever used tablature for violin, and I definitely agree that the numbers seem to increase ridiculously fast as a violinist would likely think more in wholetone positions rather than semitone positions: Playing "in third position" to a violinist means playing a major or minor third above playing "in first position" when using the same fingering. It may be different for players of violoncello or double bass. Or fretted instruments like a viol. So at any rate, the TAB delivers the _full_ information you need for playing the melody. I'm not sure how it could do so when only using a wholetone numbering system. Most relevantly, the TAB looks like expected by the _programmers_. Do you have any printed examples that would help the programmers to understand how it should look like in order to meet _your_ expectations? -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
