As a guitarist, I sometimes need to reach for tools to facilitate the proper plucking of strings on my axe. While plenty of existing options exist, they never seem to perfectly fit what I want, and I start thinking about making my own versions. But what and how? PRE-AMBLE I’ve been a guitar player since the mid-1990s, so…it’s been a minute. I grew up when the Internet was becoming popular, and one of the best things about it was the easy access to tablature. If you’re not familiar, imagine standard sheet music, with the bars and lines and notes, but instead of a 6-line, 5-space area, with circles denoting pitch AND duration, each note was a number, denoting the specific fret on a string instrument. Obviously, this meant non-string players did not use it, which limited its use. And each note had no intrinsic duration, so only careful spacing of text would infer that information. tabstave notes 3-5/6 2-3-5/5 2-4-5/4 The C major scale Regardless of its failings, guitar tablature was…
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