“Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2024” Interactive Tunebook Website

[Michael Eskin]

Paul Hardy has given me permission to release an interactive tunebook website version of his “Session Tunebook 2024” (699 Irish, English, and other tunes)
 

This custom tunebook includes a Concertina sound option for the tunes along with all the other standard tablature and instrument options.

Find it at:

https://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#websites_irish

 

Edited January 15 by Michael Eskin

[Michael Eskin]

Updated the Paul Hardy tunebook website with next and previous tune buttons.

Do a hard refresh of the tunebook page and click on any tunebook website link to pick up the new versions:

https://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html

[Roger Hare]

I'm actually not a heavy user of Michael's program because I work in a different way, but I do try and keep up to speed with new features which might benefit me.

I hadn't tried these interactive tunebook websites, but after exchanging a couple of messages with Michael offline, I spent an hour last night trying out this relatively new feature. After getting my head around the options available when building the tunebook website, it was really quick and easy. I'll be creating a tunebook website for our Morris repertoire, and will be running it past my fellow musicians next practice night.

I can see this feature being very useful for sessions? Many organised sessions have a web site, and it should be really easy to create a tunebook website for the session repertoire and post it on the web site for all attendees to see and use.

 

Assuming the tunes are available in ABC format, of course...🙂

Nice!

Edited January 20 by Roger Hare

[Michael Eskin]

@Roger Hare Don't forget that the exported websites can easily be customized if you know a little HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are all in the one .html file generated by my website exporter. 

[Roger Hare]

23 minutes ago, Michael Eskin said:

...the exported websites can easily be customized if you know a little HTML, CSS, and JavaScript...

Correct! My first attempt took about zero seconds to create. The rest of the hour was spent trying the various options.

 

I'm looking at the code right now, and I clearly have a little catchee-upee to do - I'm still writing HTML3 code..🙁🙂

Edited January 20 by Roger Hare

[Michael Eskin]

In case you are interested:

 

Exported Tunebook Website Code Walkthrough for Developers
Saturday, January 25 at 9:00 AM Pacific time.

 

In this Zoom seminar I'll be walking through the .html files for several exported interactive tunebook websites explaining how they work and where there are opportunities for customization.

 

The website exporter does its best to create something usable "out of the box" without any need for coding, but the single .html files it creates are easy to customize if you are comfortable with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

 

As a final example, I'll go through how I created the custom "King Street Sessions" tunebook website, which has an additional menu for specific tune styles, a feature not supported by the website exporter itself.

 

Michael Eskin's Zoom Meeting Link:

https://michaeleskin.com/zoom

Older style Zoom links:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6193681854?pwd=eXd3L2ZEeWNnMDBZYVI0RkJ2c3Vudz09

Meeting ID: 6193681854
Password: session

Edited January 21 by Michael Eskin

[Roger Hare]

8 hours ago, Michael Eskin said:

...the single .html files it creates are easy to customize if you are comfortable with HTML, CSS, and Javascript...

I can't say I'm exactly 'comfortable' with HTML as it's 20 years since I actually used it for real (🙂), but I spent a little time yesterday looking at the code in one of the .html interactive tunebook files I created, and I can confirm that it is easy to make simple changes. More work needed (by me!🙁)...

Edited January 21 by Roger Hare