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A JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.
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TabNotes can be rests #1620

Closed AaronDavidNewman closed 4 days ago

AaronDavidNewman commented 2 weeks ago

In a non-tab stave, setting staveNote duration '4r' will create a quarter rest. For a tabNote though, this doesn't affect the note. How do you create a rest on a tab stave (other than by rendering the glyph manually,)?

sschmidTU commented 4 days ago

I thought you never display rest notes in tabs (the x-placement of notes should indicate when to play them), but apparently it's possible: https://www.guitar.ch/en-us/guitar/theory/theory-rhythmic-tablature.html

Here a guitar tab player encounters a rest note and doesn't know what it means: https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarlessons/comments/134veo6/unfamiliar_notation_on_guitar_tabs/

I still think the default is to not display rests in tabs. But I guess it could be a use case sometimes.

AaronDavidNewman commented 4 days ago

I found you can just insert a StaveNote onto a TabStave. So I think I can close this.

I've seen it this way in cases when the standard notation stave is above the tab stave. I haven't seen the 'x', but I'm not a guitar player so who knows.

Here a guitar tab player encounters a rest note and doesn't know what it means

lol, yeah that happens :) In the US, a lot of guitar players didn't have much/any music in school, since it's not an official band/orchestra instrument.