Also, sure, it would print out beautiful sheet music, but would it be too difficult to enter? (Check out the Lilypond documentation before you answer.) The big question is, would this be useful to the wiki? Neither of us admins play the guitar, so we don't know if it would be valuable or not. The LilyPond software is a lot to install, so we are not going to guarantee that we can implement it, but I thought we would put it out there, to guage interest, amongst those who would really use it most. ( Click here for the tabs documentation.) If you'd like to experiment around with it, you can go to 's Sandbox. This software is called LilyPond, and it's documentation is here. I recently came across a wiki-compatible software that will let you enter the musical notes as hypertext, and it spits out a nice print-friendly. PS2: seems to be having some problems with their web site right now, I can’t reach it right now.If you're a big Guitar Tab or Bass Tab fan, check this out. So don’t be put off if the test file hangs the first time you run the program. I’m not sure why, because after saving a different file and loading it at startup Lilypond hasn’t hung since. PS: One problem I did have yesterday on OS X Mavericks with the standard Lilypond build is that it hung when I just saved the test file and tried to run it. I predict I’ll be using Lilypond quite a lot in future! ly file in the git repository above through Lilypond: ![]() ?I charted all this myself so I’ve tried to get it as accurate as possible, but as I say if you see any mistakes please feel free to fork my git repo and submit a pull request.Īnd here’s the PDF version produced when you run my. I want to play this but I couldn’t find a proper score for it, and I like to read a score when I’m practicing. I’ve created a public git repository with my first attempt at a full song score (pull requests welcome if you think you can improve it :)), which is Tick Tick Boom by The Hives. But instead, I thought I’d just share what I created today in just a few hours despite only finding Lilypond yesterday. I could talk about all the cool things it supports really easily, like repeat segments with alternate endings, vocal part overlays, smart auto-layout and more. Here’s my current standard include file, which in addition to making the notation ‘standard’ as per my experience, but also defines a useful macro ‘\flam’ which lets you create flams really quickly. So the first thing I did was customise that - luckily being programmer-friendly Lilypond lets you alter most things using include files, which I used to shift the notation the way I wanted. Conversely Lilypond seems to default to what Wikipedia says, which is just a weird version (to me). There’s no one standard notation, but the one I always use (and encounter most in places like Online Drummer and Rhythm magazine) is as denoted here. ![]() However, I did find that the default notation that Lilypond uses for drums was different to what I was used to. Everything can be expressed as a nested syntax, copy
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