Pc Tab

Bob Evens · Post by **Bob Evens** » 3 Sep 2002 9:44 am

OK! here it is!
I have a good PC, a steel, "Click Tab, Music Match soft ware, and BIAB.
It has been my desire to enter tab into the PC and have the software play the melody back to me. I can read tab but i can't read and play fast enough to get the rreal feel for the phrase or passage that I'm trying to play. Once I hear the part played, at a reasonable tempo, I can play it eaiser. Does this make sense to anyone? Also, if I can get by this learning curve, I would like to be able to have a program convert a MP3 or similar file to a TAB. Is this impossible?

It probably won't help my playing but....it can't hurt.

I appriciate all input.
Bob
81' D-10 Emmons
88' D-10 Zum
Sesson 400 LTD, Profex 2 Sesson 500

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 3 Sep 2002 10:04 am

Seems like that would require the TAB to contain time signature and timing notation, like "real" music, that your computer could interpret. (You know, like 4/4 time, 3/4 time, various rests, staffs divided into measures, etc.)

This is the one thing I find lacking in most TAB, especially when done by folks like ourselves and posted in the "Tablature" section. Unless you already know how the piece is supposed to sound, you have no clue about the tempo and timing of the notes. I always try to put "beat" timing indications on TAB when I post it...which aint that often!

Jeff Newman's TAB in his "Woodshed Workshop" series contains beat info, but only for the parts where the steel is played. He skips any parts of the song where there is no steel. This keeps the number of pages in his books down, but compresses the graphic representation of the song and makes the TAB a little difficult to follow sometimes without hearing the tape along with it.

Sorry this got so long...pet peeve I guess...

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 3 Sep 2002 9:45 pm

TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments including pedal steel guitar. I put together the tablature below using TablEdit. It's the best $55 I ever spent.

The program allows you to listen to the piece you are composing (MIDI) through your computer's speakers. You set up the tab for any number of strings from 1 to 15, any tuning, assign letters wherever you want, etc. and the notes pop into place as you enter the tab. There are numerous adjustments in the notation that need to be made as you compose however, and it helps to know a fair amount of music theory to use the program properly.

It won't convert an mp3 into tab. I doubt that any program will ever do that given the PSG's multiple locations on the fretboard for any one note. There are probably 15 different locations for any given note when you take into account all the of the pedals and knee levers. You want a C note... which one?

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steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 12 Mar 2004 2:02 pm

Doug, Would the TableEdit program allow my to copy and paste tab so i could post it on the Forum?
I copied and pasted several measures from your tune, "Crazy", but was not able to edit it. Also, could I use this program on a Mac? Thanks, steve