A work around until the real thing comes along might be to edit an abc, play
the abc while capturing the sound with a wav or mp3 program (EZ CD Creator 4
or 5 does this via the Spin Doctor) and move the mp3 to whatever portable
device plays mp3 files. If those little hand-held computers include a
Hello again,
I have this dream of being able to do music transcription in abc on a truly portable
device (e.g., Psion Revo, Palm, Casio Casiopeia). To be useful, the system would need
the following:
- headphone jack
- MP3 playback, looping, and slowdown software
- text editor for abc files
Hi,
Phil Taylor wrote, about "R:hornpipe":
>Why do you think it's deprecated?
I seem to recall James Allwright writing to this list that a>b cWhy not simply "R:swing"?
The abc2midi program, running in WindowsNT, doesn't recognize "R:swing". Nor does it
allow "R:none" and "R:hornpipe" in the t
Frank Nordberg wrote:
>X:2
>T:Swing example 2
>R:Swing
>M:C
>L:1/8
>K:C
>CC EE GG AA|_BB AA (2GF (2ED|CC EE GG AA|_Bc BA GE ^DE|
>
>The latter is of course semantically incorrect, but most musicians will
>understand it.
If you write it like this (2:2:GF (2:2:ED it will look the
same when printed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm transcribing the bass line to a jazz piece for which "R:hornpipe" is a suitable,
>if strange, way of saying "play this one in swing rhythm". Most of the piece has a
>swing feel. But at one point, the bassist plays straight eighth notes -- which sounds
>pretty
