Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 26.10.2015 um 08:12 schrieb David Kastrup: Thomas Morley writes: Ok. I found a problem: you can't bend an open string ... Well, there is some "behind-the-nut" trickery ;-) Stanley Clarke bent a flageolet note (in his solo for "School Days" on a bass) by

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 26 ott 2015 alle 11:40, bart deruyter ha scritto: > but it sure is possible to "bend" open strings using the tuning heads. On electric guitar bending open strings is easily done with the tremolo arm. On acoustic guitar you can produce a similar effect

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread BB
To the question of bending/detuning etc. Please have a look at Michael Manring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWPHrRwQqVE explaining his "hyperbass" where he can change tuning with the levers of his special tuning pegs and levers at the bridge. May be that does not meet the point of this

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
pls writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> Ok. I found a problem: you can't bend an open string ... >> >> When you "bend" with a bottleneck, it might be feasible. So not sure >> whether this would not

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread pls
David Kastrup writes: > Thomas Morley writes: > >> Ok. I found a problem: you can't bend an open string ... > > When you "bend" with a bottleneck, it might be feasible. So not sure > whether this would not warrant at least an option. > > And I'm not sure

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread bart deruyter
> but it sure is possible to "bend" open strings using the tuning heads. On electric guitar bending open strings is easily done with the tremolo arm. I've seen it in some transcriptions of guitar-solo's in popular music, but I can't recall where I've seen it. grtz, Bart

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Ok. I found a problem: you can't bend an open string ... When you "bend" with a bottleneck, it might be feasible. So not sure whether this would not warrant at least an option. And I'm not sure whether fretlass basses are on-topic for

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-26 Thread pls
David Kastrup writes: > pls writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> Thomas Morley writes: >>> Ok. I found a problem: you can't bend an open string ... >>> >>> When you "bend" with a bottleneck, it might be

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > Hi Bernardo, > > please see attached. Does it fit your needs? What's the essential difference to the current code? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-10-25 8:34 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> Hi Bernardo, >> >> please see attached. Does it fit your needs? > > What's the essential difference to the current code? > > -- > David Kastrup Current `determine-frets' from

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > 2015-10-25 8:34 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> Hi Bernardo, >>> >>> please see attached. Does it fit your needs? >> >> What's the essential difference to the current code? >> >>

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-10-25 21:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > 2015-10-25 13:00 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> 2015-10-25 8:34 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : Thomas Morley writes:

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno sab 24 ott 2015 alle 20:31, Thomas Morley ha scritto: Harm, should I enter an issue in the tracker for this? So if/when you have time to include it in LilyPond (as you said you'd like to do one day) we'll know it. As a reminder, please do. Thanks.

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-25 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-10-25 13:00 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> 2015-10-25 8:34 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >>> Thomas Morley writes: >>> Hi Bernardo, please see attached. Does it fit your needs?

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-24 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno sab 24 ott 2015 alle 17:55, Bernardo Barros ha scritto: No, it's not quarter-tone bending. Certain strings themselves are tuned in quarter-tones. Let's say the first string would be eeh' instead of e so when you write notes on that string, the tablature has

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-24 Thread Bernardo Barros
Hi Federico, No, it's not quarter-tone bending. Certain strings themselves are tuned in quarter-tones. Let's say the first string would be eeh' instead of e so when you write notes on that string, the tablature has to be able to interpret those quarter-tones and return the right fret. As I

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-24 Thread Bernardo Barros
Thank you, I will revisit this material, I would need to check everything to report the situation. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Hi Federico, > > No, it's not quarter-tone bending. Certain strings themselves are tuned in > quarter-tones.

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-24 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Bernardo, please see attached. Does it fit your needs? Hi Federico, 2015-10-24 10:12 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni : > Il giorno ven 23 ott 2015 alle 21:49, Thomas Morley > ha scritto: >> >> I recently made some code offering the possibility that

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-24 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 23 ott 2015 alle 21:49, Thomas Morley ha scritto: I recently made some code offering the possibility that TabStaff accepts quarter-tones. Harm, should I enter an issue in the tracker for this? So if/when you have time to include it in LilyPond (as you

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
The first patch fixed this particular error, but I found futher errors and eventually stoped using LilyPond for this score (if I remember correctly, it has been 4 years...). I don't have this material here, since I gave up LilyPond for this project. Probably one can find it again just doing a