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Forum - Website feedback - time signatures???

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Polomint-13
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Posted: 2008-07-28 21:18 CET
is their any way of putting a time signatures into the tab or having other beats other than crochets the hole time??????
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Savage
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Posted: 2008-08-05 21:47 CET
I can't believe no one (including myself) has ever thought of that before, adding a time signature...although most songs on this site are in 4/4 anyway. I did one tab (or maybe 2) with a little system I tried out where I would connect notes with either - or =, so, in a nutshell, -- is a crotchet, - is a quaver, = is a semi-quaver, -= would be a dotted quaver. It might just complicate things, and I doubt you would be able to sight read it very well, but at least the rhythms are there. I don't know how you would write a demi-semi-quaver, but the majority of songs you would tab don't have anything that small in them. I think it was my tab for Everything Went Numb by Streetlight Manifesto that I actually used this method. It has a better explanation in the tab too, so I would look that up (Alto Sax or Trumpet I think) for an example.

P.S. For anyone from North America (and anywhere else that doesn't use the breve/crotchet/quaver system, crotchet=quarter note, quaver=8th note, semi-quaver=16th note...)
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tenormaphone
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Posted: 2008-10-02 11:09 CET
I did this on my Tank! solo tab as well, had to go to 32nd notes on that system, and it's hard to do that.
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