ABC "guitar chords"
Jack Campin - bogus address
in ABC?
There's nothing about it in the BarFly documentation, or in the
ABC 1.6 standard. I remember Laurie Griffiths once providing
a list of what he implemented in Muse, but I don't know if his
selection was standard.
What I would like right now is a chord which is just a single
bass note. Is there a standard way of writing that, and if so
do BarFly and ABC2Midi understand it?
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Phil Taylor
- bogus address <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Does somebody have a list of what "guitar chords" are admissible
> in ABC?
ABC doesn't define that - it's up to individual programs.
>
> There's nothing about it in the BarFly documentation, or in the
> ABC 1.6 standard. I remember Laurie Griffiths once providing
> a list of what he implemented in Muse, but I don't know if his
> selection was standard.
You can open the Chord Definitions file in BarFly - it's just a text
file, and contains instructions for changing it and writing your own
chord definitions.
>
> What I would like right now is a chord which is just a single
> bass note. Is there a standard way of writing that, and if so
> do BarFly and ABC2Midi understand it?
BarFly expects "guitar chords" to consist of six notes, so no. You
could just use any chord containing the note you want, expand it and
then delete the unwanted notes.
Phil Taylor
Jack Campin - bogus address
>> in ABC?
> ABC doesn't define that - it's up to individual programs.
>> bass note. Is there a standard way of writing that, and if so
>> do BarFly and ABC2Midi understand it?
> BarFly expects "guitar chords" to consist of six notes, so no. You
> could just use any chord containing the note you want, expand it and
> then delete the unwanted notes.
What I'm actually doing with the file is feeding it to the folkinfo
ABC converter, which generates an accordion-style vamp (exactly in
style for the music I'm transcribing). Each chord gets expanded to
a bare root note on the downbeats and chords on the offbeats. But at
one point I want to tell the thing to shut up and not do the chords.
I've usually found it quicker to write a four-part texture from
scratch than use BarFly's chord-expansion utility and edit its
output - I never want a six-string accompaniment, I'm generally
after something you can play with the left hand on a keyboard.
Wasn't the original idea of the chord notation that it abstracted
away the particular instrument that realized it?