I made my first Piano Tab with Musescore!!!!
Hi everyone,
Since i discovered the ambrose piano tabs i was trying to make a good looking piano tab score and yes the first score is available !!!
A piano tab is the same concept like a guitar tab. The lines are the black keys of a piano so you don't have sharps or flats. Its way easier to learn than the traditional sheet music. I scored Bach's 'Invention 1'.
Try it!!!!
Best Philip Bergwerf
| Attachment | Size |
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| bachinvention01 mscore.pdf | 168.25 KB |
Comments
***Update***
In reply to ***Update*** by Philip Bergwerf
Wow, can you publish the mscz file? I want to know how to do that...
In reply to Wow, can you publish the mscz by JGitar
Yes of course! In the pdf the last bar from the left hand is not right but in this file i fixt it. The program is not made to make things like this so the playback is not what i writed down. and for some reason at some point the notes from a bar ago are playing;-)
About piano tabs: All rules about rhythmic notation are the same. Beam up is right hand, beam down is left.
Enjoy it!!! and share with others who found traditional sheet difficult to learn!
In reply to ***Update*** by Philip Bergwerf
This is fantastic! I have been searching for something like this for a long time, thank you for sharing and hope to see more sheet music in this format in the future. :)
fascinating. What is essential hack involved?
In reply to fascinating. What is by ericfontainejazz
What do you mean?
In reply to What do you mean? by Philip Bergwerf
by hack I mean how did you force mscore into displaying something it doesn't internally understand.
Your hack is that you created an 8-staff piano instrument, with each staff having 2 or 3 lines, and with certain spacing between the staff to line up with piano keyboard.
In reply to by hack I mean how did you by ericfontainejazz
That's right. Its not a easy way because you have to put all the notes from left or right hand each on 1 staff. Its not possible to click the notes in.
Thanks Philip. I saved it in my Templates folder. I made a C major scale:
![C major scale, contrary motion, piano tab.png]( "C major scale, contrary motion, piano tab.png")
I think the treble clef should be put down a space, though, so it's curled around G.
In reply to Thanks Philip. I saved it in by JGitar
Yes the treble and bass clef. You have to set them manually up and down on every new system. Haha i hope that the piano tab in the future become as popular as guitar tab;-) Did you hear for the first time this system?
ps: the upper c has to be against the c# line.
In reply to Yes the treble and bass clef. by Philip Bergwerf
Did you know that this looks very similar to Klavarskribo notation(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavarskribo)
In reply to Did you know that this looks by schepers
Yes i do. I only don't like the rhytmic notation so i tried how it would work with normal notes. And then when i was searching for anything like this i found Ambrose pianotabs;-) But the ambrose is with colors. Do you play with Klavar?
In reply to Yes i do. I only don't like by Philip Bergwerf
No, I kind-a understand it but was never trained. Many an organist told me _not_ to learn it as it is dead, or very nearly.
In reply to Yes the treble and bass clef. by Philip Bergwerf
I think I've heard of piano tab before but never seen it. Here's another way.
***update***
Hello,
I scored again a piece called Preludio from Isaac Albaniz in piano tab format. And because Musescore doesn't save a custom clef position i was thinking why i placed 2 clefs on a sheet. We need one clear clef so in this sheet i placed a bracket over the central D lines on the staff and called it the 'Central D' clef. XD
By the way, this is some nice pianomusic!
In reply to ***update*** Hello, I scored by Philip Bergwerf
Oh, very nice. Like the clef as well.