![]() ![]() My ear for pitch and rhythm identification is better these days than it's been for years. Musescore has revolutionized certain aspects of my musicianship, namely notating, transcribing, and reading. And there's a large user community, and a simple Google search turns up an answer to almost every question I have. Yes, there is a learning curve, but I've been using it for only a few months and I've got the basics down pretty well. I like to think that even if they don't read music, the staff will still give them a sense of the rhythms. If the reader doesn't read notation they can just ignore it and it will still be useful. It's hugely capable, it's under very active development, and it's FREE FREE FREE! I'm sure it has fewer features than Sibelius and Finale, but it's got way more than I use and the interface is lots more user friendly than those other programs were at that time. Staff notation is better, but is harder to share, plus most people don't read.Įnter Musescore. It's impossible to indicate more than the simplest rhythms that way, and high notes on the fingerboard are a problem. The limitations of that format were always a big frustration. I've made tabs for years in simple ASCII text format that were good to share on the internet. Long ago I checked out Sibelius and Finale and they were inscrutable and tedious to work and cost more than I was willing to pay (I guess they were geared toward students who could get discounts, and pros.) My music handwriting is even worse than my language handwriting, if such a thing is possible, and when trying to write music I'd spend as much time with my eraser as with my pencil. It would be great if there was an iPad app, but I’ll settle for something that runs on a standard laptop if that’s all that’s out there. We aren’t talking about rocket science here! Six lines and numbers is all I need, and I’d prefer to not have to resort to Notepad. Tried a few others too, but everything is kinda sucky. The formatting is awful, an errant space here or there and the whole thing is thrown off. ![]() Tab Bank looked like the answer but it’s total crap. TEFview creates high quality PDF output of tablature and/or musical staves. Loop sections of songs, or even entire songs so that you can get the most out of your practice time. ![]() TEFview plays the songs at any speed with real time sound control (volume, balance, MIDI instrument). I tried Guitar Pro, but that app wants bars and note duration applied and I don’t need that (and don’t have time - I want quicker input without note duration values, etc). TEFview supports both tablature and standard notation. I don’t need fancy automatic bar line creation, or assigning time values to notes. I’m trying to find an app that will let me create clean and easy tabs so I’m not saddling people with my handwritten version. Nothing fancy, just simple bluesy rock licks. I have a few entry level lessons that I’ve tabbed out by hand for intro students. What have you all found that is easy to help make tablature? TablEdit does all the work for me all I have to do is print.I know there are quite a few teachers/instructors around here. I love and use this program any time I am learning a new song. And this is the third computer I have installed it on. Now I do own two other program that I spent a lot of money for before I found TablEdit and are already outdated. This program does so many things I could wright a small book. In my case I go to the different hangouts Like Mandolin Hangout and look up a song from there list and 98% of the time Is will be all wrote out in the TablEdit format and you can even listen to the way it sounds even slow down the speed in order to learn it. I think everybody who plays string instruments should order and have this system on there computers, note books, iPad and anything else they are using for their music. "Me and the TablEdit work very well together. ![]()
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