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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:22:21 -0600
From: "TD"
Subject: Re: Showing Where Bends Are (was about tab, S/N, 'n stuff)

I think it looks nice visually but it doesn't really help me anymore that
your other layout charts. It neither helps nor hinders, in other words.

Just one more word about tab notation: Since I have only been playing
diatonic seriously for about a year I have used a lot of different Tab
styles to learn riffs and songs. I often find myself getting confused with
arrows however the simple plus or minus tabs (under standard notation or of
simple melodies) never give me a moments pause. It doesn't matter if the
person uses the plus or the minus, I still get it immediately. Maybe its
just me but this seems to be the most logical way to show blows or draws.
Arrows never seem as intuitive because they actually point up or down - not
in or out. Maybe I have just used the + or - system more because of the
David Barrett books I have, and the Harmonica Country tabs I used to learn
basic 1st position songs when I started out.
/tim
sixtiesja~ahoo.com

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Will"
To:
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Showing Where Bends Are (was about tab, S/N, 'n stuff)

>
> Wislsow say he wrote:
>
> >>>Notation describes the result, while tab describes
> >>>the physical process that is specific to an
> >>>instrument and even a specific tuning.
>
> David Fairweather replied:
>
> >>This reminds me of a pet peeve. Why does standard
> >>harmonica tab always use the same symbol for a
> half->>note bend, even when "the physical process" for
> >>achieving a half-step bend will differ from hole to
> >>hole?
>
> I've been playing with a layout diagram style that
> tries to incorporate that information.
>
> Check it out a http://myquill.cc/ (scroll down the
> start page.. you'll see the colored picture.)
>
> Instead of using columns and cells to align note
> names, as in most of my other layout diagrams, I'm
> using "air-stream" cones.
>
> The direction of the cone is associated with the
> standard arrow tab for breath direction, so it's easy
> to see "blows and draws" at a glance. Contrabends are
> also shown with cones showing breath direction.
>
> I've tried to place the note names in the "air-stream
> cone" at about where the pitch occurs, relative to the
> overall depth of the bend (where the cone and
> bend-depth starts at the natural note and ends at the
> pointed tip). The length of the cone attempts to
> provide a visualization of the depth of the bend.
>
> I'm interested in any feedback about this layout
> presentation style.
>
> Mike Will
>
>
>
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