George van Vlaanderen - Posted - 10/23/2014:  12:11:12

Hi Folks:

This is my first post on BHO.  By way of introduction, I am 43 year old farmer (goat cheese and sausage) in northern Vermont.  I have been playing the guitar for 25 years and picked up the banjo a couple of months ago - I'm hooked.  This forum has been a great resource for me.

I have a question regarding the TABS on TABLEDIT.  Is there a feature to add in the fingering?  I recently downloaded "Nine Pound Hammer".  Most of the time it seems pretty straight-forward, but there are a couple of sections where I am not sure.

I have attached the TAB along with what fingering makes sense on measure 7 and 8.  Any input?

Thanks.

George

9 POUND HAMMER

5stringpicker2 - Posted - 10/23/2014:  12:17:22

Looks good to me!

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RawhideCreek - Posted - 10/23/2014:  12:20:30

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Originally posted by George van Vlaanderen

Hi Folks:

This is my first post on BHO.  By way of introduction, I am 43 year old farmer (goat cheese and sausage) in northern Vermont.  I have been playing the guitar for 25 years and picked up the banjo a couple of months ago - I'm hooked.  This forum has been a great resource for me.

I have a question regarding the TABS on TABLEDIT.  Is there a feature to add in the fingering?  I recently downloaded "Nine Pound Hammer".  Most of the time it seems pretty straight-forward, but there are a couple of sections where I am not sure.

I have attached the TAB along with what fingering makes sense on measure 7 and 8.  Any input?

Thanks.

George

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You will need to have either TablEdit or TEFpad Pro (depending on your hardware).  Both have a text function that allows you to place text (such as fingerings and chord names) above and/or below the staff.

See:

tabledit.com for TablEdit

tabledit.com/ios/tp_e.shtml for TEFpad Pro

Your fingering looks fine to me; probably what I'd use, finishing bar 8 with I - T - M.

Edited by - RawhideCreek on 10/23/2014 12:28:18

eagleisland - Posted - 10/23/2014:  12:39:51

You've marked it the way I'd play it.

Picking is as much about biomechanical efficiency as anything else. As you progress, you'll learn to recognize right hand patterns from the tab.

Both halves of measure 7 would be nearly impossible to play without our old friend the "Square" or alternating-thumb pattern - T-I-T-M. You're simply changing which strings you strike.

Measure 8 - yes, that looks a little more puzzling at first. But I find it handy when examining a tab that includes a left hand move (a slide, a hammer-on or a pulloff) to envision what the tab would look like if the left-hand move wasn't there. First two notes, as you've indicated, are easiest with thumb-middle. With the next three string strikes - ignoring the slide - and you're looking at nothing more or less than a T-I-M, a/k/a a forward roll.

That'll be half a pound of goat cheese or four pounds of sausage, please. Either or is fine with me!

Edited by - eagleisland on 10/23/2014 12:40:43

Old Hickory - Posted - 10/23/2014:  14:14:22

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Originally posted by George van Vlaanderen

 Is there a feature to add in the fingering?

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If you mean is there something to click to make fingering instructions automatically appear: No.

If you mean a way to create and  insert fingering yourself:  Yes.

You use the Text Manager feature. Put the cursor on an empty line above or below the note for which you want to indicate the fingering. On a Mac, you click Command-T or go to Edit>Text Manager. I don't know what it is for Windows, but probably similar.  In the dialog box that opens, type the letter that you want, presumably T, I or M.  While there, you can enter letters for the other two fingers. Select one to assign to the current note. Click INSERT. Then Close and go back to the tab.  Insert the text/finger letter for other notes the same way -- using an empty space on a line above or below the note in question.  The text symbol -- a triangle -- that appears on the line is displayed in tab view only; it does not print or appear in PDFs. You can also specify whether the letters appear below or above the tab.

Specifying the font for this is done deep in the Preferences.

The TablEdit interface is not very good.

Good luck.

George van Vlaanderen - Posted - 10/24/2014:  04:41:39

Many thanks.

George