mr_so&so
415 posts
Mar 08, 2011
11:04 AM
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This is perhaps slightly off topic, WRT blues harmonica.
I've been straying from the blues genre lately, into folk and Celtic tunes. Tabs are pretty useful to learn such tunes. A friend sent me Saint Anne's Reel as in MP3 to learn by ear, which I can do, but I went looking for tabs to help me along.
Anyway, in my Web rummaging, I came across several scores for that song in something called ABC format, which is a way of writing out musical scores in plain text. Turns out there are thousands of songs out there in ABC format.
Then I also stumbled on a really cool tool that will convert ABC format into harp tab. It can also create a midi file. Now this is something useful!
http://abcharmotab.appspot.com/
If you have a close look at this tool, you can select the "tonality" --- the harp key you want to use. This allows you to choose the playing position you want the tab to be in. It even shows overbends. So it is an easy way to select the most convenient position to play a song in. It will also transpose the key of the song, if you want to change that (if you want to change octaves, you can transpose up or down by 12 half steps).
Unfortunately, there are few blues songs in ABC format, other than Saint James Infirmary, and a few other very well-known songs.
Anyway this is about the best tabbing tool I've come across so far, and I thought I'd share.
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Last Edited by on Mar 08, 2011 11:06 AM
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