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TablEdit for BanjoTablEdit has supported banjo tablature since it's earliest days. TablEdit was the first tablature program to handle the fifth string correctly, and supports four string banjo as well!The first thing to do when starting a new TAB for banjo is to select the instrument.
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This is very easily done by opening a new file, clicking on the tuning to the left of the TAB staff and select your preferred banjo tuning from the pull down list. If you don't find your preferred tuning on the pull down list, just select the one that's closest and adjust the individual strings to suit your needs. EASY!Now, to be totally honest, Matthieu and I are not banjo players, we're guitarists. But we recognize the special and unique qualities that make the banjo the instrument that it is. With that in mind, we decided that I should ask a banjo player for their thoughts about TablEdit and the banjo.Enter Richard 'Rick' McKeon, banjo player and instructor extrordinaire!The following is my conversation with Rick: Aninterview with Banjo Instructor Richard McKeonKeith:As a banjo teacher, what attracted you to TablEdit?Rick:I have tried a lot of different music/tab programs and TablEdit is mytop choice. I use it as a tool for working out arrangements, forwriting tabs for my students and to develop graphics for myinstructional videos.Keith:Can you list a few specifics?Rick:TablEdit has some great features for teaching banjo.
For starters,there's the treatment of the 5 th string, placement oflyrics, easy highlighting of notes, nice export features. TablEdit isa good transcribing tool with easy placement of chord diagrams andspecial characters.
Not to mention that TablEdit has become The defacto standard for banjo.Keith:Those are some great points. Let's take a look at the treatment ofthe 5 th string.Rick:TablEdit recognizes that the 5 thstring is shorter than the other strings. Some other TAB programsdon't do that. I like to use the “print preview” of chorddiagrams blown up real big, as much as 800 percent, and togetherwith a screen capture program to grab nice graphics of chord diagramsthat I import into my instructional videos and documents.Keith:I see, so you get a nice crisp and clean look even at highmagnification.
No doubt that contributes to the professional qualityof your lessons. You mentioned the placement of Lyrics?Rick:For banjo songs especially placement of the words exactly where theygo in the tab is important. This helps my students keep track ofwhere they’re at in the song.Keith:Again, helping you make a quality learning tool for your students.Rick:That's right, and TablEdit allows for easy highlighting of melodynotes with a background color.Keith:So the students can pick out the melody as they are learning to play.So, how do the export features come in to the mix?Rick:When putting together an instructional booklet I often use the PrintView page and export a metafile to the clipboard. Then I can easilypaste the page into a Word document. Then I will save out the Worddocument as a PDF file.Keith:That is handy, isn't it? So what makes TablEdit a good transcribingtool?Rick:When I'm creating a banjo arrangement I start with the melody andthen add in banjo rolls and embellishments.
Many times the onlysource for the melody is music written for piano – usually in adifferent key. TablEdit allows for easy input in standard notationand easy transposition to the key I want – usually the key ofG. Once I have the arrangement worked out I usually display the tabonly.Keith:That makes sense, and I see how that can open whole worlds of musicfor banjo players too. You mentioned chord diagrams and specialcharacters?Rick:I did, easy placement of chord diagrams and specialcharacters. With the banjo we use a lot of partial chords and fingerplacements that might not be obvious. TablEdit allows for easy chorddiagram creation and placement. So, instead of just naming the chordI can show the diagram in the tab where it belongs.Keith:I like the idea of TablEdit as the de facto standard for banjo, butisn't that a bold claim?Rick:In my opinion TablEdit is becoming the de factostandard for banjo tabs.
There are hundreds (probably thousands) oftabs on the Internet available for downloading. When I exchange songswith other banjo players it is always in the TEF format.Keith:OK, well, you're the expert on that, I'll take your word for it. Now,what do your students like about TablEdit?Rick:Several of my students use TablEdit or your freeTEFview.
There are many advantages over just giving them the printedtab.Keith:Such as?Rick:For starters, they can listen to the sound of anunfamiliar tune.Keith:So they know how it's supposed to sound and have a practice goal towork toward. That makes sense. How about another example?Rick:They can play along at different speeds.Keith:Right, and using the Loop and Increase Speed options to improve theirmastery of the piece. I like that point! How about one more?Rick:I might give them an assignment of writing somevariations or an arrangement starting with just the melody.
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Once theyare familiar with the program, writing tabs is much easier thanwriting them out by hand on tab paper.Keith:I'm sure that makes it easier for them to explore their ownarrangements too. Rick, it's been really nice chatting with you,thank you so much for your time!Rick:My pleasure.Richard McKeon is a banjo and guitar player and instructor in Prescott, Arizona. He has written and published four DVDs on playing banjo and guitar. His books, guitar and banjo instruction videos and his TablEdit arrangements can be found on his web site atRick's not the only Banjo player singing TablEdit's praises, over the years I've heard from hundreds of banjo players and instructors.Here's what a few of them have to say. Of all the music programs that I use I find TablEdit tobe the one I use the most.
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It is the most practical and easiestto use of all the notation and/or tab programs that I have tried. Iam interested in Bluegrass so there are a lot of tabs that I downloadfor banjo, mandolin and guitar.I am studying banjo and I enter tabs and play them back to hear theway they sound. I've also done the same thing with guitar tabs.Joseph WilbertNew Orleans, LAI use TablEdit as a part of my instructional program. I find it to be an instrumental component for my students and myself. It gives me the ability to create lessons for my students that they can follow either by using the free viewer or printouts of the tablature. For the student, they benefit greatly by having the ability to adjust the tempo to whatever speed they need and select specific phrases they may be having trouble with.I play bluegrass banjo in a band and need to be able to work out my own breaks. TablEdit gives me the freedom to write, edit and playback my creations.
I don't always remember what I've played in the past, so it's nice to be able to refresh by memory from the files I've made.Whether you are a beginning musician, or a proficient picker, I'm confident that you will find TablEdit as useful and helpful as I do.Brad MillerBanjo InstructorPoulsbo, WA. Thanks.TablEdit has been a big help to me. I play in a band where some of the people are only note readers. I am not, so teaching them had been difficult clumsy. Using TablEdit I was able to tab out some pieces that immediately translated to notes that they were able to read easily. I will continue to do this. I also give lessons on various instruments, including guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo.
This product enables me to 'change gears' readily, as well as print out tabs and chord pictures for my students. I have it on my desktop and laptop so I can write or compose, or save musical ideas. This is a remarkably helpful tool, and worth every penny to any level musician. This is a truly wonderful product. It has become indispensable to me.Steve LoringCadillac, MI,Thanks Keith for the unfailing tech support, TablEdit is a terrific program.I play 5 string banjo,and Tablature is a huge part of learning to play tunes and techniques.There is a world of Banjo players out there using this program andchurning out material in the TablEdit format, then making it availablefor others and that's why I chose to use TablEdit. Its popular!I can read, print and playback the Music and Tabs that they have created with this program. I can adjust tempo, loop phrases and much more.
It's just a Hoot!Sight reading with this program develops great hand/ear coordination!Thanks all you pickers out there! Appreciate your TablEdit efforts!!Chris StearGibsons, BC, CanadaTablEdit for Banjo ResourcesHere are a few web sites that have banjo resources created with an using TablEdit:Learn how to play banjo, mandolin and guitar under the instruction of noted Nashville musician Banjo Ben Clark.