I have been looking at this site for a while, I think it is a great site, so I decided to register to be able to share thought, tunes and tricks! So, I thought a good start would be to share a tune but I do not know ABC at all. I can read and write sheet music pretty good. So, I went in the link section and most of the sites are to transfer from ABC to sheet music or sound. Few other links are no longer available. Anyone has good references for me to learn ABC format so I can share tunes on this website...
A handy way to check what you've done is to take your abc and paste it into the Convert-A-Matic, which puts it into standard notation for you. It's a pretty nifty tool!
You can also send your attempts to just about anyone on site here for a quick once over and any suggestions. That's always a better way to go for your first few submissions. Once it gets converted to midi and sheetmusic those things are in stone, though you can still correct the ABCs after the fact... The two links given previously are good ones. Another way to become quickly familiar is to learn a few simple tunes, or ones you already know, following the ABC's for it here, even better if it is in the 'Comments', because you won't have the 'Sheetmusic' as backup.
Good luck! Since you already read and write the dots, ABCs will be a cinch for you...though I have known some people that were oddly ABC-phobic...
Well, I wrote the whole tune! Works good. One small problem I had is that the advices in "lesession" link about repeats does not work. I want to write an ending part that is not the same the second time you play the sentence. Here is the ABC I am using for the last bar:
|[D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2][1 (3FGA:||[2 A>B||
The problem is that the second time media player plays the song it still reads the first part (suppose to skip) in addition to the second part.
I'd just been working on a load of mixed meter things, in part for a request someone had made, and then I got distracted here... You can send me the whole transcription, and after I've had some sleep I'll look at it and see if I can help at all. What is the tune and tune type? ~ My suspicion is that the final beats for each of your endings, (3FGA & A>B, may be lead-ins, or:
There are two reasons to prefer [1 and [2 to 1 and 2. One is that you can use them in the middle of a measure, not just at the beginning. (If you only use 1 and 2 and only use them at the start of a measure, maybe someday you'll want to use them in the middle of a measure and will have completely forgotten about the [1 and [2 usage.)
The other is that if you re-format the tune file and wind up wanting to start a line with a first or second ending, you'll probably want the bar line to end the previous line and the number 1 or 2 to start the next line. This causes an error in the ABC program I use (BarFly). Starting a line with [1 or [2 works.
Adding tunes!
Adding tunes!
Hello!
I have been looking at this site for a while, I think it is a great site, so I decided to register to be able to share thought, tunes and tricks! So, I thought a good start would be to share a tune but I do not know ABC at all. I can read and write sheet music pretty good. So, I went in the link section and most of the sites are to transfer from ABC to sheet music or sound. Few other links are no longer available. Anyone has good references for me to learn ABC format so I can share tunes on this website...
Carabus
# Posted on December 19th 2006 by Dr.Carabus
Re: Adding tunes!
Easy peasy, really.
Seriously, a couple of hours and you'll be ready to go.
This tutorial is one of the best.
http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm
# Posted on December 19th 2006 by John J.
Re: Adding tunes!
Thanks a lot John!!!
I went over and started writing! The tune should be up there as soon as I am sure there are not too many mistakes!
Carabus
# Posted on December 19th 2006 by Dr.Carabus
Re: Adding tunes!
A handy way to check what you've done is to take your abc and paste it into the Convert-A-Matic, which puts it into standard notation for you. It's a pretty nifty tool!
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
# Posted on December 19th 2006 by kennedy
Re: Adding tunes!
Thanks Kennedy!
I wrote the first sentence and it works good!
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by Dr.Carabus
Re: Adding tunes!
You can also send your attempts to just about anyone on site here for a quick once over and any suggestions. That's always a better way to go for your first few submissions. Once it gets converted to midi and sheetmusic those things are in stone, though you can still correct the ABCs after the fact... The two links given previously are good ones. Another way to become quickly familiar is to learn a few simple tunes, or ones you already know, following the ABC's for it here, even better if it is in the 'Comments', because you won't have the 'Sheetmusic' as backup.
Good luck! Since you already read and write the dots, ABCs will be a cinch for you...though I have known some people that were oddly ABC-phobic...
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Adding tunes!
Here is some of the fiddle scale for starters, beginning with the G below the staff ~
G, ~ A, ~ B, ~ C ~ D ~ E ~ F ~ G ~ A ~ B ~ c ~ d ~ e ~ f ~ g ~ a ~ b ~ c' ~ d' ~ etc...
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Adding tunes!
Well, I wrote the whole tune! Works good. One small problem I had is that the advices in "lesession" link about repeats does not work. I want to write an ending part that is not the same the second time you play the sentence. Here is the ABC I am using for the last bar:
|[D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2][1 (3FGA:||[2 A>B||
The problem is that the second time media player plays the song it still reads the first part (suppose to skip) in addition to the second part.
Any advices?
Thanks
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by Dr.Carabus
Re: Adding tunes!
|1 [D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] (3FGA :|2 [D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] A>B ||
But it would be good to see the whole transcription... A 1st and 2nd ending is the whole bar / measure...
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Something isn't right with you note lengths!!! ~ assuming this is:
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
|1 [DB] [FA] [DB] (3FGA :|2 [DB] [FA] [DB] A>B ||
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Nope, I've screwed up... Sorry, past my bedtime, it is late:
|1 [D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] (3FGA:|2 D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] A>B ||
or
|[1 [D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] (3FGA:||[2 D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] A>B ||
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Adding tunes!
I'd just been working on a load of mixed meter things, in part for a request someone had made, and then I got distracted here... You can send me the whole transcription, and after I've had some sleep I'll look at it and see if I can help at all. What is the tune and tune type? ~ My suspicion is that the final beats for each of your endings, (3FGA & A>B, may be lead-ins, or:
|: (3FGA |
|: A>B |
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Both of the following ways for notating endings are OK, to '[' or not to '[':
|[1 ~ |:|[2 ~ || ~ or ~ |1 ~ |:|2 ~ ||
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Adding tunes!
Thanks for your help Ceolachan!
I will send you the whole file through email for advice. But not know because I am not confortable with it yet.
This is a hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/8
the part I want to skip at the end is only the triplet and not the whole bar:
|[D2B2] [F2A2] [D2B2] [1 (3FGA:|| [2 A>B||
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by Dr.Carabus
Re: Adding tunes!
There are two reasons to prefer [1 and [2 to 1 and 2. One is that you can use them in the middle of a measure, not just at the beginning. (If you only use 1 and 2 and only use them at the start of a measure, maybe someday you'll want to use them in the middle of a measure and will have completely forgotten about the [1 and [2 usage.)
The other is that if you re-format the tune file and wind up wanting to start a line with a first or second ending, you'll probably want the bar line to end the previous line and the number 1 or 2 to start the next line. This causes an error in the ABC program I use (BarFly). Starting a line with [1 or [2 works.
# Posted on December 20th 2006 by GaryAMartin