If you could make the image around the size of a printable sheet of paper that would be excellent. You can post here or email to me, remember to take the spamblocker out of yahoo.com . Thanks very much!
T:The Last Pint
M:4/4
L:1/8
C:Pierre Bensusan
S:Lunasa
K:G
~G3 E DEGA | BGAB AGED | ~G3 E DEGA | BGAB A4 |
~G3 E DEGA | B2 AB AGED | GABG BcAG | FD D/2E/2F/2G/2
AG G2 :||
GBdG (3B^cd GB | cBAG BGGF | GBdG (3B^cd GB | cBAG FD
D/2E/2F/2G/2 | G2 dG (3B^cd GB | cBAG BGGF | ~G3 E DEGA
BGAB A4 :||
Thanks guys! If I ever get this tune learned I will post a clip. This is actually only half of the tune, but it’s all I could find online. It’s track 4 on the Lunasa Live (first) album, and they actually play two different melodies at once so it’s hard to get by ear. Don’t yet know which one was in the abc.
I will add one remark regarding the Tune-O-Tron converter at concerina.net… It will always produce an error if the index field is missing (as is often the case). Be sure to add the ‘X:1’ field, and be sure that it is the first field in the file.
Since we’re talking about software, is there any program that takes an ABC and turns it into tab notation? 'Cuz that’s what I do to the sheet music - still can’t read the notes fast enough.
Stella,
I don’t read ABC yet, either, and I’ve often wondered the same. Doing a quick search on the internet I came up with this page…I’m sure there are plenty of others:
On 2002-09-11 18:53, avanutria wrote:
Since we’re talking about software, is there any program that takes an ABC and turns it into tab notation? 'Cuz that’s what I do to the sheet music - still can’t read the notes fast enough. >
It works pretty well though I have had a couple of minor bugs pointed out to me over the last couple of years (these usually only show up in complex multi-part music with uneven timing).
I have so many irons in the fire that it's doubtful that I'll ever release an upgrade unless I run into something that I need it to do that it won't. Right now it meets my needs and has for the last couple of years.
It is open source so if someone needs it to do something that it doesn't presently do they are more than welcome to take the source and run with it (adhering to the provisions of the GNU license, of course). BTW, I disclaim all responsibility for the spaghetti-code nature of the beast -- the program was a monster when I started working with it and my tacking additions on didn't make the original any cleaner!
Cees, you have found the fount… There are others, but everything stems from here. Just follow his various links on whatever aspect of ABC in which you are interested.
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself” --Miles Davis, Jazz Musician
[ This Message was edited by: CDon on 2002-09-12 12:52 ]
I would add that John’s program works extremely well. It is also linked from Chris Walshaw’s page (mentioned above) as jaabc2ps, as is GSView, which is needed, in general, to view the ps file produced by jaabc2ps. I find that Henrik Norbeck’s AbcMus makes a particularly good ‘front end’ for jaabc2ps. You can use AbcMus to enter, edit, and listen to the ABC tune, then call both jaabc2ps and GSView as ‘external programs’ under AbcMus to process the file and produce a score and tablature as desired. The whole combination works very well.
[ This Message was edited by: CDon on 2002-09-12 14:12 ]
