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Michael Eskin

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  1. If you'd like to double up voices and detune them for chorusing or other effects, you can do that now: Creating a Massed Pipes and Drums demo, also useful for creating wet-tuned accordions Tutorial video https://youtu.be/zobhYk_roVU
  2. If you would prefer to have tunes played with a specific instrument sound when opened from a PDF tunebook, go into the Settings, selected your preferred default instruments, and check the box labeled "Override all MIDI programs and volumes in the ABC with the defaults when playing tunes". This video will walk you through the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQN3A75EQj0
  3. It's specifically because you have a Table of Contents and/or an Index link back annotation most likely at the top of the ABC for the tunebook in the PDF settings block: %addtoc Table of Contents %addlinkbacktotoc %addsortedindex Index %addlinkbacktoindex
  4. Demo of voice combining and hiding to create a "Music Minus One" style tune for a Telemann trio for Flute and Continuo. Original transcription, live in the tool: https://tinyurl.com/yc3srr9s PDF Tunebook shown in the video: https://michaeleskin.com/transcriptions/Telemann_Trio_Flute_Continuo_7Mar2024.pdf In the tunebook, click the title of the arrangement to launch it into the tool's Player. In the tunebook, click the title of the arrangement to launch it into the tool's Player. Once in the Player, you could also use the Tune Trainer to practice. Demo video:
  5. Demo of voice combining and hiding on a three-part version of "Greensleeves" with injected Solfège note names and my Solfège note names instrument. Original transcription, live in the tool: https://tinyurl.com/3ssvucae Demo video: This concept could easily be adapted to create "Music Minus One" tunebooks for any instrument.
  6. Really getting into the deep weeds here... Detailed end-to-end technical demo of taking a three voice version of "Greensleeves" arranged for Cello and Harpsichord, combining and transposing the voices so that they both play at the correct pitch and have a compact visual representation that shows just the top melody line. Original transcription, live in the tool: https://tinyurl.com/5h9e27xm Final transcription, live in the tool: https://tinyurl.com/yfwjpjny Demo video: While I'm using a classical piece for this demo, the same process would be used for any multi-part arrangement.
  7. Very cool. We live in an amazing time where we have access to so many great tools. The only challenge I see with that service is it doesn't import ABC files, unless I'm missing something. I'm also able to import MusicXML files into my tool, but I can't transcode ABC back to MusicXML. You can do this from a number of desktop applications, but there isn't a Javascript library equivalent of that tool that can run in a browser so I wasn't able to add that to my tools. Here's a demo video of how to use EasyABC (on my Mac, Windows version also available) to transcode ABC to MusicXML: https://youtu.be/RpS2cElh3cw
  8. I'm able to generate a limited version of Gary's tablature in my free ABC Transcription Tools for melody lines on C/G instruments. Happy to provide more details or a demo video if you're interested.
  9. Completely re-wrote the instrument sample fetching code in my custom version of abcjs in my ABC Transcription Tools to use fetch() instead of XMLHttpRequest and seeing dramatically faster load times for tunes at playback time. This is a pretty major change. I've tested it on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and mobile Safari, and it's looking really good and stable. Please let me know if you run into any issues on any platform. All you should notice is that it takes less time for the Player control bar to change from grey to black when playing, indicating that it's ready to play.
  10. As others have suggested, use a left inner thigh anchor and let your right arm do the majority of the work. I also use a 9" pad of suede on my left thigh to further restrict the left side motion and allow the left arm to relax even more because it doesn't have do as much work actively anchoring the instrument. The push is absorbed by the thigh and the left arm just has to counter the pull, there is very little work required and no lifting.
  11. Be patient. Far better to learn a few tunes well than a lot of tunes poorly. I already had a background in silver flute before I played traditional Irish music. I started playing in traditional Irish music about 1995 and between the tunes I can start and the tunes I can play if someone starts it, I have a repertoire approaching 1000 tunes and continue to learn new ones. That's about one tune every one to two weeks since I started. It definitely gets easier as you learn more and more tunes, the brain starts to recognize the common patterns between the tunes, so you have that to look forward to.
  12. The tuning of the bodhran for a tune can be now set using the following comment-based annotation anywhere in the tune's ABC: %bodhran_pitch (drum pitch) or %bodhran_tuning (drum pitch) Where the drum fundamental pitch can be: C, C#, Db, D, D#, Eb, E, F, F#, Gb, G, G#, Ab, A, A#, Bb, or B. If no pitch is specified the default fundamental pitch is A.
  13. A huge thank you to Ben Hockenberry for providing some lovely example bodhran templates in multiple styles for my ABC Transcription Tools. You'll find them on the "Add" dialog, there is a new button labeled "Add Bodhran Backing Track Tune Template" There are six tune styles available as Bodhran backing track templates: Reel Jig Slip Jig Slide Hornpipe Polka Once added, the ABC for the bodhran track is no different from any other ABC and can be edited if you want to customize the track and save off your own modified templates to open later in the tool like any other tune.
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