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Drum Tabs
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| Although percussion events can be added as individual drum events to a standard tablature module, it's often more efficient to create an explicit percussion or "Drum" tablature specifically for this purpose. In order to create a tablature for percussion instruments, check the "Drum Tab" option in the "Module" section of the "Instrument..." dialog.
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| TablEdit manages percussion tablatures consisting of 5 lines where:
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|  | C = Cymbals
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| | H = Hi Hat
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| | T = Tom Tom
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| | S = Snare drum
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| | B = Bass
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| | CC = Crash Cymbals
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| | RC = Ride Cymbals
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| | HH = Hi Hat
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| | T1 = High Tom
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| | T2 = Mid Tom
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| | SD = Snare Drum
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| | T3 = Floor Tom
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| | BD = Bass Drum
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| If the module is not already set to 5 strings before the "Drum tab" option is selected, TablEdit will automatically set it to 8 strings.
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| Selecting "Drum tab" changes the appearance and function of the second tab of the "Instrument" dialog as illustrated above.
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| This allows the following graphical and audio elements of a drum tablature to be configured:
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| | the symbol displayed in the tablature,
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| | the notational interval at which the notes are to be displayed,
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| | the default shape of the note heads (the number corresponds to the position of the note head in the "Special effects" palette which changes when a "Drum tab" is selected as illustrated below)
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| In order to enter a percussion effect, place the cursor anywhere in the tablature (which "string" you put it on is unimportant) and right-click with the mouse to select the desired sound.
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| To apply a different note head than the default setting, simply apply a special effect to the note (the buttons of the Special Effects palette display the different shapes available).
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| Even though TablEdit is capable of exporting a drum tablature as an ASCII file, its very unlikely that it will ever be able to import such a file given that there is no existing standard for percussion tablatures.
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| TablEdit can import MIDI format percussion tablatures without difficulty as long as the active module into which you are performing the import operation is, in fact, a drum module. If this is case, simply select all the tracks or channels so that TablEdit can import all of the percussion elements into the active module.
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| If, on the other hand, TablEdit runs into percussion elements when a MIDI file is imported and the import module is not a drum tablature, it will automatically add a special drum module for the imported elements.
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