munchausen - Posted - 06/05/2016:  21:28:53

I cannot indicate an alternate string hammer, or ghost hammer.  Trying to notate open string followed by hammering to 2nd fret of adjacent string.  It is in 8th note rhythm, so without the slur marking, it appears to be drop thumb.  When I add hammer on slur marking, it ties way over to the next note played on the initial string.  I've tried the ghost note and tap effects as well.  No luck.  This is driving me right up the wall.  What am I missing here?  Thanks.

Old Hickory - Posted - 06/05/2016:  21:44:39

If I understand what you're describing -- simply hammering a fretted note to make it sound without picking a preceding note on the same string -- I've tried to do that, too, and couldn't find a way to do it.  TablEdit seems only to know about hammering from a picked note, not hammering from nowhere to create a note.  I think the only thing to do is tab it as an ordinary note and use the text tool to put an "h" below it

janolov - Posted - 06/05/2016:  23:23:25

In this example I am referring to the banjo rhythm as “bum-pa-di-ty”. For both the alternate string pull off and the alternate string hammer on you make a fake first note:

Alternate pull off  (example first string) is indicated by making a fake fretted note:

1.    Write 2 (fret 2) on the first string on the “bum”

2.    Put a Po(pull off) on it

3.    Write 0 on the first string on the “pa”

4.    Put the cursor on first “fake” note (2)

5.    In the dynamics bar choose ppp.

                                   ̯

Now it is shown as [2]    0 in TablEdit but when you print the tab the [2] will not be printed. And it will not be sounded on the midi file (all ppp notes are silent)

                                                                                        ̯

Or if you make a pdf of it, the [2] will not be shown, only        0 

The alternate hammer on is in the same way. Write a fake unfretted note:    

1.    Write 0 (fret 2) on the first string on the “bum”

2.    Put a Ho (Hammer on) on it

3.    Write 2 on the first string on the “pa”

4.    Put the cursor on first “fake” note (0)

5.    In the dynamics bar choose ppp.

                                       ̯

You will get the result         2

I have put a demonstration in the tab archive: banjohangout.org/tab/browse.as...p;v=21946 with a TablEdit file and a pdf file

Tobus - Posted - 06/06/2016:  06:48:03

When I need to show an alternate string pull-off or ghost hammer-on, I've just been doing it the same way Josh Turknett does on his tabs.  I'll put the note in as usual, but use the hand tool to show a particular finger for fretting that note.  This won't necessarily mark it as a hammer-on or pull-off, but it will at least differentiate a ghost hammer-on from a drop-thumb.