[LAU] Are there Guitar Tab Editors supporting uneven time signatures?

Ron Fox rfox at aloha.com
Fri Feb 13 16:00:00 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:48 +0000, Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I play bouzouki and guitar and most of my music repertoire is in
> (Eastern European) uneven time signatures (5/8, 7/8, 9/8 etc).
> 
> I was trying to write Guitar/Bouzouki tablature/notation of this music
> on Linux in the past but without much success.
> 
> The main (hidden) problem with these rhythms is the grouping of notes,
> i.e. 
> 5/8 can be 2+3/8 or 3+2/8, 
> 7/8 is 2+2+3/8 or 3+2+2/8 etc...
> 
> Thus the grouping of the notes needs to reflect this fact as it is
> essential for the performer.

Viktor, could you post an example PDF that shows how the grouping of
notes should be presented on the page?

Regards,
Ron





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