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EasyABC is a recent alternative by Nils Liberg with similar edit and.

Through the computer speakers to get an audible sanity check. Which colour codes the different elements of an abc tune, gives a preview of the score as you edit, and can play a tune as midi

ABCExplorer is my current favourite for most work.

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I use a variety of utilities (mainly free or very low cost software) for manipulating ABC files:

Transcribed into ABC from digital sound files, particularly from MIDI files.

Other valuable resources are the Fiddler's Companion, and The Session. There are several search enginesĭedicated to making this easy, particularly JC's ABC Tune Finder.

Modified from ABC tunes found in ABC files and web pages downloaded from the Internet.

Transcribed into ABC from written scores that I had been given at workshops and sessions.

Created from scratch in ABC by me, from versions that I had learnt by ear.

The tunes in my tunebooks have come from several sources:

| is a bar line, :| is a repeat, |] is an end bar.

Q is the tempo (160 crochets to the minute).

L is the default note length (a quaver/eighth note).

M is the metre (4 crochets/quarter notes in the bar).

Z is a note on this transcription to ABC.

I allocate the numbers so all the tunes starting with A are from 1000, with B are from 2000, up to Z from 26000 Z:Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2016 (see Creative Commons cc by-nc-sa licensed. See the ABC notation pageĪ typical ABC tune from my session tunebook looks like: Standard for exchange of music notation by electronic media such as email. ABC is a simple format which has become a My starting point is to create an ABC file with the digital definitions of the tunes.Īn example is the ABC file of Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook.

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The work is done on a home PC under Windows 10. The tunebooks, and in making them available in downloadable and printed forms. This page contains an outline of the process that I followed in creating Paul Hardy's Tunebook Process Paul Hardy's Tunebook Process

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