Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions: guitar sheet music and playback

[Stephen T. <st...@to...>]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:28 -0500, Silvan wrote:
> If there were a suitable glyph available in a suitable font, you could do the 
> necessary twiddling to make that available to Rosegarden, and then switch to 
> the newly created note style.  You could then put a bunch of these notes on 
> the B line and write chords above them easily enough (but not fretboards.)  
> Getting the notes to reside on the B line while sounding at some other pitch 
> is another matter entirely.  The kind of thing I'm talking about would really 
> only lend itself to visual use.

The point of rhythm notation is to indicate where to strum and how long
the chord sound. So to make this notation I see that we need:

- a slash line (represents 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 notes)
- a open circle (represents 1/2 and whole notes)
- flags (which always point down)
- position fixation (click any where one measure places the note at the 
  B string)

> I refer you to Chris Cannam <ca...@al...> in particular for 
> more information about this.  He understands the mechanism far better than I, 
> since he created it.  I think he'd like to see someone actually use it too, 
> and I'd wager this idea will pique his interest.  I'm somewhat surprised he 
> hasn't chimed in already.

I will wait to see if he will respond. I may try to reach him next week.

Thanks.

Stephen