Put together a few demo websites of the “Export Tunebook Webite” feature of my ABC Transcription tools:
These have tin whistle tab and play with a tin whistle sound for the melody:
CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook
https://michaeleskin.com/carp_celtic_jam_tunebook_whistle.html
San Diego Comhaltas Tune Learning Tunebook
That’s cool!
Love the speed up mode!
Here’s an example of a single tune website, “Galway Girl” with whistle tab and whistle sound for the melody.
For a single tune, the website code will suppress the dropdown selector and immediately load the single tune.
https://michaeleskin.com/documents/galwaygirl.html
I’ve also created a PDF version of the CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook with whistle tab at:
Michael, these websites and the interactive PDFs are fantastic, especially for beginners (like me!). Thank you for the huge investment of personal time in our community and in helping the next generation learn and love Irish Trad music.
-AW
It’s very simple to create these with my free ABC Transcription Tools:
User Guide
I was asked in a private message about the possibility of sorting these tunes.
One could easily do that using the sorting features in the tool, but this book was created by the CARP group in this order and is used by many groups, so I honored their choice of tune order.
The sorting tools are on the “More Tools” page, click on “Sort by Tag” and then select the “Sort by Name (T:)” option, then click “OK”.
You are most welcome to create your own version sorted however you like from the original source.
I have the original ABC I used for the tunebook available at:
https://michaeleskin.com/documents/carp-celtic-jam-tunebook.abc
More details on the sorting options at:
https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#sort_dialog
Additionally, the PDF versions of all my tunebooks have a name-sorted index at the end. Click the >> on the right side of any tune page in the PDF to jump to the index. Click the << on the left side of any tune page to jump to the Table of Contents.
Again, all my interactive PDF tunebooks are at:
Exported the King Street Sessions tunebook (1000+ tunes) as an interactive website with tin whistle tab and the tunes playing with a tin whistle sound.
Dropdown list is broken down by style.
https://michaeleskin.com/tunebook_websites/king_street_sessions_tunebook_whistle.html
On Firefox, you’ll get a scrollbar in the dropdown, on other browsers best to use the mouse roller or page up/down keys for faster navigation.
Of course, this is probably about as big a tunebook website in terms of tune count as one would ever export. I would expect that most people aren’t going to generate websites with this many tunes, but I wanted to make sure it worked with an extremely large set of tunes.
It took less than 30 seconds to do with the notation rendering disabled on the Advanced Settings dialog.
Just opened the ABC file, exported the website with the title, colors and footers I wanted.
The section headers are done using special tunes that look like:
X:1
T:*--------- Reels ---------
My tool treats any tune that has a T: tag that starts with a * effectively as a tune divider marker in both the website and PDF export.
Handy for this sort of thing.
There are many interactive PDF variants of this tunebook with tablature for a wide range of instruments, including tin whistle, at:
Added a bunch of new instrument-specific versions of the “King Street Sessions Tunebook” and “CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook” for:
Tin Whistle
Irish Flute
and other instruments at:
Many thanks for the effort you have given this.
I use it for mandolin too, not just whistle.
Just excellent and I’m stunned every time you find ways to streamline or improve it.
I’ve now unified the tablature and instrument playback for my customized exported tunebook websites at:
https://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#tunebook_websites
Tablature and playback for each customized website includes:
Standard Notation
Mandolin
Tenor Banjo
GDAD-tuned Bouzouki,
Standard-tuned Guitar
DADGAD-tuned Guitar,
Tin Whistle
Irish Flute
Hammered Dulcimer
Demo video:
For the Tunebook Website Exporter, if “Add tablature/instrument selector dropdown” is checked, a dropdown will be added to the website to the right of the tune selector that allows you to change which tablature style is displayed along with using a matching instrument sound for playback.
The dropdown will include:
Standard Notation
Mandolin
Tenor Banjo
GDAD Bouzouki
Standard Guitar
DADGAD
Tin Whistle
Irish Flute
Hammered Dulcimer
When using the tablature/instrument selector dropdown, if you wish to have the tablature change but not the playback instrument, in the exported .html file, change this one line of Javascript from:
var gAllowInstrumentChanges = true;
to:
var gAllowInstrumentChanges = false;
and then save the modified .html file.
This feature is in version:
2087_111324_1500
or later.
Check the version on the Advanced Settings page, update from the “Hamburger menu” notification or using “Reset Settings” if required.
Demo video:
Full details in the User Guide:
https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#generate_website