How Do I Write Solos With Tablature?
Tablature is a fantastic bridge, enabling even us beginners to play solos and nifty strums without needing to know every individual note on the fretboard or read music notation. With tabs one’s able to ease into treating the uke as a “real” front stage instrument. (see my post Fingering Diagram versus Tablature for more)
How, then, does Scriptasaurus handle tabs? Quite nicely, thank you:
At its simplest tablature must indicate the four strings and the fret numbers. In order for the program to notice this you must enclose it within {start_of_tabs} and {end_of_tabs} tags.
{start_of_tabs}
-----2---2-----------3-3---
---3---3---3-------0-------
-2---------------0---------
---------------------------
{end_of_tabs}
Of course, this is rather plain. And we can use abbreviated tags ({sot} and {eot} just like the {start_of_chorus} tag), add some measure dividers, and even preface the whole thing with the string names like this:
{sot}
A|-----2---2-----|-------3-3---
E|---3---3---3---|-----0-------
C|-2-------------|---0---------
G|---------------|-------------
{eot}
Recently there’s been quite a bit of interest in enriching the tablature feature — so stay tuned!
![Teaching Kids The Ukulele: UkeGeeks In The ClassroomThis awesome trick from grade-school-uke-club-organizer-extraordinaire Charisse totally made my day:"I host (volunteer) a ukulele club at my kids‘ school. I‘m teaching 3-5th graders how to play ukulele and I find myself making lots of song sheets for them. [I plan to] “trick” the chord maker into printing blank chord pics above the lyrics. It‘s been a good learning tool for the kids to have to write in the fingering for the chords, but my handwritten diagrams are so messy."OK, that‘s awesome! And turns out it‘s easily done. Here‘s how (see first image, “What‘s the Chord”).{title: Whats The Chord?}{subtitle: Listen to the song and fill-in the chord diagrams} {define: __? frets 0 0 0 0}{define: ___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 1:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 2:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 3:___ frets 0 0 0 0} Sweet roll [__?]powder carrot cake [___] pudding [___]tiramisu!Tootsie roll biscuit chocolate bar [___]sugar plum danishApple pie [1:___]candy canes [2:___]lollipop jelly.[3:___]We can name our chords whatever we wish: here we want some “fill in the blank” spaces so we may opt for just underscores (“____” or “____?”) or numbered blanks (“1:___”) as long as we include a chord definition for them somewhere (we can omit the “finger” information — fingers are always ignored on the zero-th fret/nutte).To spruce it up I‘ve chosen the “Jelly Beans” theme (you can change themes from under the “Appearance” menu — it‘s the bottom-most item)Another option (second image) is to provide chord names and have the students draw the diagrams. To do this we‘ll just override the program‘s built-in definitions.Such the clever trick, methinks. And it took about 4 minutes.(full post)(via UkeGeeks)](https://24.media.tumblr.com/3e5f1d8e36611916ffc7eac874410f9a/tumblr_n0sm3klV6H1qbu54no2_250.png "Teaching Kids The Ukulele: UkeGeeks In The ClassroomThis awesome trick from grade-school-uke-club-organizer-extraordinaire Charisse totally made my day:\"I host (volunteer) a ukulele club at my kids‘ school. I‘m teaching 3-5th graders how to play ukulele and I find myself making lots of song sheets for them. [I plan to] “trick” the chord maker into printing blank chord pics above the lyrics. It‘s been a good learning tool for the kids to have to write in the fingering for the chords, but my handwritten diagrams are so messy.\"OK, that‘s awesome! And turns out it‘s easily done. Here‘s how (see first image, “What‘s the Chord”).{title: Whats The Chord?}{subtitle: Listen to the song and fill-in the chord diagrams} {define: __? frets 0 0 0 0}{define: ___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 1:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 2:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 3:___ frets 0 0 0 0} Sweet roll [__?]powder carrot cake [___] pudding [___]tiramisu!Tootsie roll biscuit chocolate bar [___]sugar plum danishApple pie [1:___]candy canes [2:___]lollipop jelly.[3:___]We can name our chords whatever we wish: here we want some “fill in the blank” spaces so we may opt for just underscores (“____” or “____?”) or numbered blanks (“1:___”) as long as we include a chord definition for them somewhere (we can omit the “finger” information — fingers are always ignored on the zero-th fret/nutte).To spruce it up I‘ve chosen the “Jelly Beans” theme (you can change themes from under the “Appearance” menu — it‘s the bottom-most item)Another option (second image) is to provide chord names and have the students draw the diagrams. To do this we‘ll just override the program‘s built-in definitions.Such the clever trick, methinks. And it took about 4 minutes.(full post)(via UkeGeeks)")
![Teaching Kids The Ukulele: UkeGeeks In The ClassroomThis awesome trick from grade-school-uke-club-organizer-extraordinaire Charisse totally made my day:"I host (volunteer) a ukulele club at my kids‘ school. I‘m teaching 3-5th graders how to play ukulele and I find myself making lots of song sheets for them. [I plan to] “trick” the chord maker into printing blank chord pics above the lyrics. It‘s been a good learning tool for the kids to have to write in the fingering for the chords, but my handwritten diagrams are so messy."OK, that‘s awesome! And turns out it‘s easily done. Here‘s how (see first image, “What‘s the Chord”).{title: Whats The Chord?}{subtitle: Listen to the song and fill-in the chord diagrams} {define: __? frets 0 0 0 0}{define: ___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 1:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 2:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 3:___ frets 0 0 0 0} Sweet roll [__?]powder carrot cake [___] pudding [___]tiramisu!Tootsie roll biscuit chocolate bar [___]sugar plum danishApple pie [1:___]candy canes [2:___]lollipop jelly.[3:___]We can name our chords whatever we wish: here we want some “fill in the blank” spaces so we may opt for just underscores (“____” or “____?”) or numbered blanks (“1:___”) as long as we include a chord definition for them somewhere (we can omit the “finger” information — fingers are always ignored on the zero-th fret/nutte).To spruce it up I‘ve chosen the “Jelly Beans” theme (you can change themes from under the “Appearance” menu — it‘s the bottom-most item)Another option (second image) is to provide chord names and have the students draw the diagrams. To do this we‘ll just override the program‘s built-in definitions.Such the clever trick, methinks. And it took about 4 minutes.(full post)(via UkeGeeks)](https://25.media.tumblr.com/8ef649d028be9d8d882dd2663c295317/tumblr_n0sm3klV6H1qbu54no1_250.png "Teaching Kids The Ukulele: UkeGeeks In The ClassroomThis awesome trick from grade-school-uke-club-organizer-extraordinaire Charisse totally made my day:\"I host (volunteer) a ukulele club at my kids‘ school. I‘m teaching 3-5th graders how to play ukulele and I find myself making lots of song sheets for them. [I plan to] “trick” the chord maker into printing blank chord pics above the lyrics. It‘s been a good learning tool for the kids to have to write in the fingering for the chords, but my handwritten diagrams are so messy.\"OK, that‘s awesome! And turns out it‘s easily done. Here‘s how (see first image, “What‘s the Chord”).{title: Whats The Chord?}{subtitle: Listen to the song and fill-in the chord diagrams} {define: __? frets 0 0 0 0}{define: ___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 1:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 2:___ frets 0 0 0 0}{define: 3:___ frets 0 0 0 0} Sweet roll [__?]powder carrot cake [___] pudding [___]tiramisu!Tootsie roll biscuit chocolate bar [___]sugar plum danishApple pie [1:___]candy canes [2:___]lollipop jelly.[3:___]We can name our chords whatever we wish: here we want some “fill in the blank” spaces so we may opt for just underscores (“____” or “____?”) or numbered blanks (“1:___”) as long as we include a chord definition for them somewhere (we can omit the “finger” information — fingers are always ignored on the zero-th fret/nutte).To spruce it up I‘ve chosen the “Jelly Beans” theme (you can change themes from under the “Appearance” menu — it‘s the bottom-most item)Another option (second image) is to provide chord names and have the students draw the diagrams. To do this we‘ll just override the program‘s built-in definitions.Such the clever trick, methinks. And it took about 4 minutes.(full post)(via UkeGeeks)")
