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Is there anyway to make BB recognize a melody in tableture form, that is true tableture positioning? I am trying to learn a song called "Revenge of the 10 Gallon Hat". I wrote the song in Music Time Delux format, lowered the pitch an octive so that BB would recognize the staff looking like the sheet music, and imported it's midi file into BB. The song is in the key of D and the first riff is using the lower pitched E, A, and D strings in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd position. Therefore I have my bb tableture display Guitar keyboard set all the way to the left in an open E to see the right rift playing. This first rift plays fine, but after that things fall apart. You would think that if the staff is written correctly, the tableture positions would be correct also. Any suggestions? Next question: The Audio Cord Wizard does a fine job of bringing in a wave file and displaying most of the correct cords used in the song. I was just wondering if the Wizard could recognize lead patterns on instrumentals from wave files as well. It seems to pick up the Bass pattern correctly. I'm also trying to figure out the lead and riffs used in a song called "In a Daydream" by the Freddie Jones band. It has a lot of really nice riffs down close the first pick-up that are a little to fast for me to pick up on my own. I have searched for tabs on the internet, "Ultimate Guitar Tabs", for this so but have only found particial tabs for the begining only.

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Try setting the Options to multichannel mode for guitar and see if the higher notes won't come out right with that position marker down around the nut.

{quote]You would think that if the staff is written correctly, the tableture positions would be correct also.




The problem with that one is that there exists more than one place on the neck for the same notes. Unlike a keyboard. For example, the high open E string, the 5th fret E on the B string, etc. all sound the same note and the program has no real way of sorting that out. So that's what the "multichannel" thing is all about, it creates a separate MIDI channel and output for each string. Once we know which string, not hard to place the spot on the fingerboard in the right place.

As for the Audio Chord Wizard (not "cord" please! ) it does what it can do. You can take a look at the separated note view and maybe scope out some of a melody there, but it will be there along with all the other notes (and miscalled notes due to filter problems).

If you want a software that can indeed separate all the notes out of an audio file, look into a program called "Melodyne" with a websearch. Be prepared to pay top dollar for it.


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Thanks Mac,
I'll give that a try. Didn't know that multichannel thing was there. As for the "cord" spelling, well that's just the Kentucky in me. Once there, always there.

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Well, ya plugs yer geetar up with a patch cord so ya kin play them fancy chords thru da amp.

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Hey Mac,
Although I live in Austin Texas now, I'm from a little town in Kentucky called Middlesboro, right where Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee join together. How far is that from where you live in Virginia?

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I'm over on the coast, feelin' the cold wind off the Atlantic, man.



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Mac,

What is your problem. They taught me in skool to spell fonically and cord is correct as far as I can tell...


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I didn't know Ottawa wuz in Tennessee...

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It's about a stumps hollow away from Knoxville.

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