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Is there a definitive notation for multiple repeats?
If it's choir music, then the number of times to repeat is usually apparent from the number of verses in the lyrics. Here's an example from the Lilypond documentation:
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Is there a definitive notation for multiple repeats?
You are correct. 'X3' and 'X4' are ambiguous. Put 'Play 4x' preferably at the BEGINNING of the repeated section.
If your notation software requires a particular other notation for playback, ...
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Is there a definitive notation for multiple repeats?
The most common way to indicate multiple repeats is to write
Play X times
at the beginning of the repeated part. "Times" is often abbreviated with a lower-case "x".
For example:
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How can I add a Let Ring keyboard shortcut for TuxGuitar?
TuxGuitar shortcut configurations are stored in an XML file. I was able to add my own shortcut for the "Let Ring" feature by guessing its name based on other configuration entries in this file. The ...
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Exporting tabs from TuxGuitar to Lilypond
It looks like that TuxGuitar fails to set the proper clef.
Just find the music in the lilypond file and put \clef "G_8" in front of it. That will do the trick.
Explanation: As Tom_C ...
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Add a new guitar tuning to TuxGuitar
Understanding standard tuning
Standard tuning is :
E5
B4
G4
D4
A3
E3
First you have to understand how note (or pitch I should say) notation work. The letter indicate the note name, the number ...
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How to add quadruplets in Tuxguitar?
While tuxguitar indeed doesn't support such notation, the rhythm (four notes adding up to three sixteen notes) can be notated accurately this way:
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How to add quadruplets in Tuxguitar?
Quadruplets (and duplets) are not supported in TuxGuitar as of version 1.5. Support for tuplets is limited to sizes 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12. See http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/. (The screenshot below, ...
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8th note value on TuxGuitar
That indication is not a tempo indication but means "swing the eighth notes." In other words, when you see two eighth notes as shown to the left of that equals sign, play them as if they ...
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Use TuxGuitars as VST
Navigate to https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/files/TuxGuitar/TuxGuitar-1.5.6/ and download one of the archive format files and look for the soundfont files (.sf2).
E.g. if you download the ...
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Tuxguitar software and note length
Use "Let Ring" for the first note.
Right click on the first note, select Beat>Effect>Let Ring
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Tuxguitar software and note length
What you want there is having two Voices, which you can apparently do in TuxGuitar by Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2.
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Does anyone here use TuxGuitar and is by chance able to tell me how to adjust the volume of tracks seperately?
There are some knobs in the instrument settings. The first one controls the volume:
I added the red arrow, which points to the knob that controls the volume. Note that this setting affects the volume ...
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Can you change the volume of a specific track in TuxGuitar 1.3?
As answered in this post , you need to click on the "V" button, which is available for each instrument in the "Instruments" dialog.
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How do I enter Segno, Coda, D.S. al Coda into TuxGuitar?
Unfortunately, TuxGuitar does not currently have this capability. Posts on their forum have been suggesting such an implementation for years, but it has not yet been acted upon.
If you need software ...
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Guitar Tuning in Tux Guitar - For Dummies (Drummers)
Drop C tuning most commonly refers to a tuning set up like this
CGCFAD
that is,
C3 G3 C4 F4 A4 D5
There are a few different variations on this, but this is the most widely used.
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Exporting tabs from TuxGuitar to Lilypond
This is probably linked to : why is guitar music written one octave higher?
An easy fix would be to transpose everything 12 half tones higher but not sure if it easier in Tux or Lilypond...
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Why does tuxguitar sound bad and what can be done about it?
Caveat: I have not used TuxGuitar, I use Guitar Pro and think it's well worth the money. That said:
The TuxGuitar Documentation page on sound has a couple points that may or may not help with your ...
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8th note value on TuxGuitar
For ease and simplicity, those quavers (1/8 notes) are written out as if they're straight eighths.
The sign means that they're not played as such. They're played swing, with the first of each two held ...
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Using Chapman Stick tunings in TuxGuitar
Answering my own question, even if I guess it's not something anybody could do: I actually managed to add some presets by patching the source code for TuxGuitar - which is open-source, so you can do ...
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Line breaks or page formatting in TuxGuitar
Print formatting appears to be unsupported. Wayne Gabree's tutorial makes no mention of it, a question similar to yours received no answers, and a related bug report also suggests there is no such ...
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Add a new guitar tuning to TuxGuitar
UPDATE:
The tuxguitar fork over at https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar has many updates including custom tunings.
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Add a new guitar tuning to TuxGuitar
TuxGuitar doesn't have a feature to let you save a preset tuning, however you can save a .tg file with your tuning as a template.
So
create a new file
edit the tuning of your guitar track
save it as ...
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Is there a definitive notation for multiple repeats?
@Len, the problem is that the performer won't know whether the sign x3 written at the end of the repeated section means "play 3 times" or "repeat 3 times". It could mean either, so therefore you can ...
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Can't find the mixer in the new version of TuxGuitar (v1.3.2)
If you hover over the 6 circles, it tells you what they are. here it is from left to right. Volume, Balance, Reverb, Chorus, Tremolo, Phaser.
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Can't find the mixer in the new version of TuxGuitar (v1.3.2)
I couldn't see the "V", but I found out 6 circles at the right of each instrument. Volume can be tuned with the first one.
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