[ddots-l] Re: Guitar tablature
- From: Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:03:31 -0600
yes i have it i will send it when i get home. Its actually kind of cool
On 11/18/12, Rui Vilarinho <ruialby@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List,
> Anyone is using this Lunar Tabs? I cant find the executable!
>
> Information: The purpose of Lunar Tabs is to give a person who is blind the
> ability to more easily access electronic guitar tablature (tabs) by
> converting electronic tabs to a format that a screen reader can process.
> Guitar Tablature (tabs) is a popular notation that musicians use to convey
> musical ideas. In the information age, more and more musicians are
> harnessing the power of electronic guitar tabs. Originally, guitar tablature
> was an ASCII-format. However, different musicians would use different
> character sets to represent different musical elements (such as trills,
> hammer-offs, dynamics, etc) and there was never any standardization of the
> ASCII-format.
>
> Companies that build music software tried to remedy this difficulty by
> introducing a couple standard formats. The two prevailing standards are
> guitar pro (.gp5) and power tab (.ptb). Several commercial and open source
> editors exist that allow one to compose/read tablature and save in one or
> both of these formats. Sites such as Ultimate Guitar
> (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/) and 911Tabs (http://www.911tabs.com/)
> house giant tab libraries where anybody can freely download tabs, which
> exist for virtually every popular song. Hobbyist and professional musicians
> contribute tabs to these databases daily.
>
> The problem that Lunar Tabs tries to address is that none of the tab readers
> are built with accessibility in mind. None of the existing readers are
> screen-reader friendly so a person who is blind would have difficulty using
> them.
>
> To solve this problem, Lunar Tabs takes as input an electronic guitar tab in
> guitar pro or power tab format and generates a sequence of text instructions
> for playing a particular piece. For example, if an "A" appears on the guitar
> tab, Lunar Tabs might output the instructions {"Play third string second
> fret, quarter note"}. These instructions could then be accessed by a screen
> reader. A person who is blind, armed with Lunar Tabs, would have the ability
> to learn any song they wanted by harnessing the giant tab libraries online.
>
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lunartabspro/
>
> guitar players? how do you deal with tablature?
> Writin and reading?!
>
> regards,
> Rui Vilarinho
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