wondering if anyone knows how to have minor revisions to your sheet music posted? i made the changes in the details, but they've not yet been reflected on the sheet music for my tune.
I wrote Jeremy about my own tune that needs a change in the sheet music ten days ago using the contact form on the FAQ page. There has been no response, and no change to the music. I suggest you add a note to the comments suggesting that people make their own sheet music from the ABC file to get the changes.
I don't understand why the database isn't programmed to look for updates to the ABC files and redraw the sheet music.
Posted on December 24th 2009 by Jeremy
"When I then go to create the sheetmusic, I check that the ABC notation is valid. If it's not, I see what I can do to fix it. Usually the issues are pretty obvious (a missing note length or pause). If the ABCs are invalid and I can't fix them, then I delete the tune and ask the person who submitted it to test their tunes in some ABC software before submitting them."
Elaine, not for nothing, but that would be some pretty slick custom software to poll for updates to ABC files, generate a new jpeg file, and link the newly generated jpeg file into the website
I know it just rolls right off the tongue, but actually implementing that could get pretty ugly pretty fast
yes, random_humor, that's correct. it's not too big a deal-- just needs to reflect the key as one sharp instead of one flat-- other than that it's a minor notation issue. thanks!
Just change it in the ABC. Once the ABC is converted to dots, there are no turn back on this website. I would suggest that you post something in the comments so people who really want to print the dots know the mistake and can just convert the ABC again. I see you did that, so sit back and relax, or get out and play music!
Does it matter? Isn't it how you've heard the tune, rather than what the dots offer? Does anybody really learn from postings on this site, as compared, say, to taking tunes from O'Neill's? All tunes are bound by time and place. Can't you change something that just sounds wrong, without having it written out just so? Don't we do this all the time, as traditional musicians?
I have loads of books, from' the dance music of Seamus Ennis' to the lunessa tune book, but Its loads easier to do a quick search here, check out the transcriptions in the comments, copy and paste to the tuneotron or transpose and print out a neat Pdf.Then I have a bunch of sheets with my current tunes which I can slip into my fiddle case when Im traveling. I use books as another reference and of course I listen to tunes when Im not playing them.
@Nate. I'm a professional database programmer and I'm not being glib at all when I suggest that a site like this should be automatically updating the sheet music. To me it's a bit of a shocker that the site is not updating when an ABC is edited.
For one, it is an old system which uses .gif for the sheet music. At the time when Jeremy allowed Mustard members to submit abcs it was a bold step. Innovative. He also chose to maintain certain controls. Discussions such as this one are obviously a result of that decision. IMHO, Jeremy will never, never, never create (or allow members to create) a *database* in which all the abcs & gifs are the same.
Bye
I cram 8 or 10 tunes onto a page using abc and keep printouts of new tunes in the top of my concertina box, where I can sneak a look and how the next tune starts, without having the dots on the table .
revising the sheet music?
revising the sheet music?
wondering if anyone knows how to have minor revisions to your sheet music posted? i made the changes in the details, but they've not yet been reflected on the sheet music for my tune.
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by LaUnicaIrishBand
Re: revising the sheet music?
Hopefully the webmaster will change this. Send him a friendly email & explain the error. He is rather busy though.
This one, right?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/10437
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by Ben Steen
Re: revising the sheet music?
I wrote Jeremy about my own tune that needs a change in the sheet music ten days ago using the contact form on the FAQ page. There has been no response, and no change to the music. I suggest you add a note to the comments suggesting that people make their own sheet music from the ABC file to get the changes.
I don't understand why the database isn't programmed to look for updates to the ABC files and redraw the sheet music.
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by ElaineT
Re: revising the sheet music?
Posted on December 24th 2009 by Jeremy
"When I then go to create the sheetmusic, I check that the ABC notation is valid. If it's not, I see what I can do to fix it. Usually the issues are pretty obvious (a missing note length or pause). If the ABCs are invalid and I can't fix them, then I delete the tune and ask the person who submitted it to test their tunes in some ABC software before submitting them."
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by Ben Steen
Re: revising the sheet music?
Elaine, not for nothing, but that would be some pretty slick custom software to poll for updates to ABC files, generate a new jpeg file, and link the newly generated jpeg file into the website
I know it just rolls right off the tongue, but actually implementing that could get pretty ugly pretty fast
...just sayin
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by Nate Ryan
Re: revising the sheet music?
yes, random_humor, that's correct. it's not too big a deal-- just needs to reflect the key as one sharp instead of one flat-- other than that it's a minor notation issue. thanks!
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by LaUnicaIrishBand
Re: revising the sheet music?
Just change it in the ABC. Once the ABC is converted to dots, there are no turn back on this website. I would suggest that you post something in the comments so people who really want to print the dots know the mistake and can just convert the ABC again. I see you did that, so sit back and relax, or get out and play music!
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by Dr.Carabus
Re: revising the sheet music?
Maybe soon you will meet someone playing your tune with a flat instead of a sharp. Ah, trad music always evolves, even "modern" trad...
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by Dr.Carabus
Re: revising the sheet music?
Does it matter? Isn't it how you've heard the tune, rather than what the dots offer? Does anybody really learn from postings on this site, as compared, say, to taking tunes from O'Neill's? All tunes are bound by time and place. Can't you change something that just sounds wrong, without having it written out just so? Don't we do this all the time, as traditional musicians?
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by David Levine
Re: revising the sheet music?
I have loads of books, from' the dance music of Seamus Ennis' to the lunessa tune book, but Its loads easier to do a quick search here, check out the transcriptions in the comments, copy and paste to the tuneotron or transpose and print out a neat Pdf.Then I have a bunch of sheets with my current tunes which I can slip into my fiddle case when Im traveling. I use books as another reference and of course I listen to tunes when Im not playing them.
# Posted on April 26th 2010 by piobagusfidil
Re: revising the sheet music?
@Nate. I'm a professional database programmer and I'm not being glib at all when I suggest that a site like this should be automatically updating the sheet music. To me it's a bit of a shocker that the site is not updating when an ABC is edited.
# Posted on April 27th 2010 by ElaineT
Re: revising the sheet music?
For one, it is an old system which uses .gif for the sheet music. At the time when Jeremy allowed Mustard members to submit abcs it was a bold step. Innovative. He also chose to maintain certain controls. Discussions such as this one are obviously a result of that decision. IMHO, Jeremy will never, never, never create (or allow members to create) a *database* in which all the abcs & gifs are the same.
Bye
# Posted on April 27th 2010 by Ben Steen
Re: revising the sheet music?
Yay! Jeremy got round to updating the tune I needed to have fixed.
# Posted on April 28th 2010 by ElaineT
;)
Grand!
Cheers, Elaine.
# Posted on April 28th 2010 by Ben Steen
Re: revising the sheet music?
I cram 8 or 10 tunes onto a page using abc and keep printouts of new tunes in the top of my concertina box, where I can sneak a look and how the next tune starts, without having the dots on the table .
# Posted on May 3rd 2010 by geoffwright
Re: revising the sheet music?
If you have a blog on www.folktunefinder.com then the dots get updated whenever you edit the page.
Just saying.
# Posted on May 4th 2010 by Joe Wass