Re: [tablatures] bends: pre-implementation issues

[Marc Hohl]

Patrick Horgan schrieb:
> Marc Hohl wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I plan to work on the emplementation of bends for lilypond. Some 
> > preliminary
> > tests with scheme were successful, so I want to go to the next stage 
> > soon and
> > create some new engravers. But there are still some unsolved issues.
> >
> > But first, a brief explanation for all non-guitarists out there:
> > a band is achieved by pressing down a string and moving it along the 
> > frets.
> > The string gets bend, and the resulting tone gets higher. There are 
> > three
> > variants:
> > 1) the bend (or bend up): plucking the string, then doing the bend
> > 2) release bend: plucking a already bent string. Sounds like a 
> > reverse bend.
> > 3) pre bend: bend the unplucked string, pluck afterwards. Mostly (but 
> > not always)
> > followed by a release bend.
> You leave out the common case of a release bend without a pluck, 
> following a bend.  It's common in blues for example, to pluck, bend up 
> a whole step, then back down a half step without an intervening pluck, 
> for example leaving the string bent (and then of course shaking it all 
> around).  How would you notate that?
>     _    /  \ ~~~~~~~~~ note the ascii art won't work so well if you 
> have variable width chars;)
> __/ 
> Patrick
Thanks for your hint! I wasn't referring to all possibilities, but 
mainly the three fundamental parts
which can be combined to more complex bend fingures.

I would notate this as

e \bend fis \release f

(durations aside).

Thanks,

Marc
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