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TablEdit Users Say:
"I believe that TablEdit changed the face of tablature use for acoustic instruments. My progress accelerated. As I tabbed songs, I also improved my ability to visualize music for the banjo and found it easier to hear music and transfer it to the fretboard.
Although I am not a professional musician (I like to eat and have a roof over my head ;O)) ), I have started several people on Bluegrass banjo. My modus operandi is to prepare some beginner tabs for a friend or acquaintance, get them going on rolls and basic chords, help them learn a song or two using tab generated with TablEdit, then send them out to professional banjo instructors.
With the advent of TablEdit, you will find my old, hand written tabs yellowing on the shelf. If only it were available back when I began!
Thank all of you responsible for bringing TablEdit to us!"
Ronald R. Hewitt Cohen, PhD - Colorado, USA
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TablEdit Manual 2.65
How To Export an ASCII file from TablEdit
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It takes from 10 minutes to a hour, according to the complexity of the tune, to create an tablature (ASCII, text) file from a TablEdit file.
Step 1 - Choose a tune, bring it up in TablEdit, select {File}{Export}>ASCII.... A dialog box called "Export ASCII, HTML, RTF" will appear. The settings:
| A. | For tunes that are mostly 1/4 and 1/8 notes set the "Page Width" to 66 characters, the "Time Width" to 4. This will produce an easy to read three measure wide tablature.
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| B. | For tunes that are complicated with a lots of triplets hammeron/pulloffs, slides etc.,set the "Page Width" to 100 characters, the "Time Width" to 8. This will produce a two measure wide tablature with more space between each note so the all of the annotations will be clear.
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| C. | Put a check in the "Trace Reading List" box. Make sure the "From/To measure" settings include the entire song.
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Press the "File" button (a second dialog box will appear) choose a folder or create a new one named ASCII in your TablEdit directory. Name the file, press [Save] (second dialog box will disappear) then press [Export] and the file will be converted and you will be given a "EXPORT WAS SUCCESSFUL" message. Now you have an ASCII and now the difficult work begins.
Step 2 - Open note pad or any other word processing program. Set the font to something simple, Courier, Arial etc. Select {File}{Open}, find the file in your folder and press [Open].
| A. | Check the file against the TablEdit file to make sure it's all there and is readable. Adjust font and character width settings as needed until the file is correct.
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| B. | Check the title information and copy everything from the TablEdit file on to the header of the file. Title, author, arranger, where recorded etc., and add any notes about the tune you wish too. Put your name on it "Tablature Created by ________________."
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| C. | Now check all the hammer-ons, triplets, and pull-offs to make sure they made the conversion intact, Sometimes the center note will be dropped in a triplet or the "H, Po, Sl" symbols will be missing.
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Step 3 - Now that you have the file perfected, hit [Save]!
Source: http://www.co-mando.com/
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