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TAB MASTER Version 1.0 26/5/1994 Contents: 1. Declaration 2. General notes and description 3. TAB MASTER Package 4. Requirements and installation 5. TAB MASTER tutorial 5.1. What, why and how 5.2. Getting to know TAB MASTER 5.2.1. Starting TAB MASTER 5.2.2. Simple editing procedure 5.2.3. Loading and saving files 5.2.4. Scrolling over the edited transcription 5.2.5. Creating a TAB file 5.2.6. Inserting and removing parts of the transcription 5.3. Advanced usage of TAB MASTER 5.3.1. The Fast Numbers Mode 5.3.2. The Auto Space and Add Space options 5.3.3. Using standard Ascii TAB notations 5.3.4. Staff Breaks and Bar Breaks 5.3.5. The Create menu options 5.3.6. Editing a new tab transcription 5.3.7. Aborting a transcription that wasn't saved 5.3.8. Saving TAB MASTER settings 6. After TAB MASTER works... 6.1. Editing the output ".TAB" file 6.2. What should be imroved 6.3. Paying for TM? 7. Command summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Declaration: The author of TAB MASTER is not to be held responsible for any damage caused by using TAB MASTER, any of its components or the files produced with it. Use this program at your own risk. The author of TAB MASTER takes no responsibility for any possible break of copyrights law done by users of this program. TAB MASTER is a freeware and may be used and distributed freely without any fee charged for it or for using it. Files created by this program may only be given freely and may not be sold. TAB MASTER may not be used for any commercial usage. 2. General notes and description: TAB MASTER (TM for short, not for Trade Mark), is my utility for creating tab files for guitar, bass, and any other string-driven musical instrument. Many people transcribe musical pieces into text files, and share them with other world-net users. If you want to know more about TAB standards, usage and purposes, please read "Standard ASCII Guitar Music Notation" by Rob Craig, available on ftp.nevada.edu FTP site. My intention is to make TAB creating much easier. Most people use word processors or text editors to create their tab files, but I find this very uncomfortable. This program is meant to give answers to the disadvantages of text editors: It is designed to be a powerful utility for creating TAB files, and yet to be easy to use and to master. I hope this program will enable you to create more TAB transcription and share them with other users on the net. 3. TAB MASTER Package TM package includes the following files: TABLAT.EXE - The program itself TABLAT.DOC - This documentation file TABLAT.CFG - Configuration file MOONCHLD.TMS - Demo file for testing the program FILEID.DIZ - Description file for BBS/FTP/FSP users Although TM is a freeware program, it may only be distributed with ALL the files of the original package. 4. Requirements and installation TAB MASTER should work with any PC machine. Please install it in a specific directory (for example: C:\TABLAT), in which all the other files that TM creates will be stored. Make sure all the files from the TM package will be available on the TM directory. Due to the usage of direct memory addresses, this program currently doesn't work with MONOCHROM video cards. Therefore, it won't work on Hercules or VGA MONO video cards. It does work on any color card: CGA, EGA, VGA or SVGA. If you run into problems with these video types, please let me know! TM requires about 230K to run with all it's features. Features like creating TAB files or viewing TAB may not work properly with lack of enough memory. TM can work under Windows (tm) as a DOS application. 5. TAB MASTER tutorial 5.1. What, why and how? The basic proglem of creating TAB files with a standard text editor is that guitar transcriptions are designed using six rows of text (which I will refer to as a Staff), presenting the six strings of a guitar. When editing these six lines, normal text editors tend to push or pull the lines back and forth, and at times break one line into two, causing a great mess. It gets worse when one wants to add a new part into the existing transcription and push the rest of the staff forward. The same goes for deleting irrelevant part of the transcription that is in the middle of the line. The whole grasp of TM is that guitar transcriptions should be edited horizontally: The editing should be done by scrolling horizontally over a continuous set of six lines. By editing horizontally, one may add parts to the transcription, by pushing the existing tab forward and typing the new part in the new space that was created. Deleting parts is of course, as easy as that. TAB MASTER is, therefore, a horizontal editor: It scrolls to the left and the right, and enables the user to edit 16 lines of 3000 characters each. Unfortunately, Printers and video displays don't tend to have such width, and therefore TAB MASTER breaks the edited file into staves. The staves width can be modified in order to fit the desired page/screen width. TAB MASTER saves its data in ".TMS" files. These files can only be read and edited using TM, and should not be sent to other users, because they cannot be viewed or printed by users who do not have TM. Therefore, after the tab creation is complete, TM produces a ".TAB" file. In the process, the program breaks the long horizontal transcription into shorter staves, and saves them as a standard TAB ASCII format. In order to make tabbing easier, TM was designed to be as easy to use as possible. I adopted the pop-up menus method. TM functions can be accessed by holding down ALT key and pressing the first letter of the desired menu. A menu will pop up, and a cursor will indicate the desired command from the menu. Through the menus, the user may load, save or exit the program, start a new transcription, create a ".TAB" file from the edited tab, and change the TM editor settings. 5.2. Getting to know TAB MASTER 5.2.1. Starting TAB MASTER To run TM, simply type: "TABLAT" at the DOS prompt. TM screen will appear for a short while, as TM resets its parameters. After that, the editor screen will appear. The Pop-Up menus will appear on the top line of the screen. The name of the file that is currently being edited is displayed on the top-right corner of the screen. The three bottom lines of the screen display some short-cut keys for the advanced user of TM. Above the bottom three lines, there's a scroll bar, which indicate the location of the current visible part in the whole transcription. Above the scroll bar is the info line, indicating the location of the cursor, the editing mode, and other information. The transcription itself is seen in the middle of the screen. The line that is currently being edited is coloured in red, and the location of the cursor is marked with a green square, indicated with a "V" sign on the upper line of the editor. As you may see, some lines are marked with "---------". This is the staff, and the dash symbol presents the string. Other lines have empty spaces. These lines can be filled with normal text, such as the song's lyrics, or special remarks for the player. It can also include chord names, or meter signs for playing the tab. 5.2.2. Simple editing procedure Try moving the cursor using the cursor keys, try typing letters and numbers on the diffent lines. When pressing a number on the staff lines, the number will appear, and the cursor will jump a few spaces forward. This is an automatic space, meant to make TAB files look more readable. This feature of TM, along with the rest of its special features, can be switched on or off, as we will observe later. Note that when you type letters, and not numbers, on the staff, the automatic spaces will not be activated. Try typing numbers and letters on the blank lines: The spacing in these lines will be normal, because they sould provide standard text editing. Pressing Space Bar will create an empty space on the empty lines, just like in any editor, but it will make a dash symbol when the cursor is on the staff lines. The same goes with the BackSpace key, which erases one character to the left of the cursor, leaving an empty space or a dash respectively. Note that BackSpace does not pull the rest of the line backwards: It merely erases one character and moves the cursor to the left. Try typing in the following transcription: Em7 G e:--------------------3-----3-----------------3-----3---- B:--------------------3-----3-----------------0-----0---- G:--------------------0-----0-------0---------0-----0---- D:------------0--2----2-----2----------2--0---0-----0---- A:------0--2----------------------------------2-----2---- E:---3----------------------------------------3-----3---- 5.2.3. Loading and saving files Access the File menu, by holding down the Alt key and pressing the first word of the menu item. In this case, Alt+F. The File pop-up menu will appear. Using the cursor keys, select the Save option, and press Enter. A small window will appear, in which you should type the desired file name (without the extention). Press Enter when finished, and the edited file will be saved. Once you make a change to your edited transcription an asterisk will appear on beside the file name on the upper right corner. When you save it, the asterisk will dissappear until the next change occures. This certifies that you will not lose data: TM will ask you before it leaves a changed file that was not saved. Try saving the file again, and you will notice that this time TM will not ask for a file name. It will save the edited transcription to the last file name used. If you want to save the edited transcription to another file (with a different name) select the Save As option. Try loading the example file: In the File menu select Load command. Type in the file name "MOONCHLD" and press enter. This will open the file "MOONCHLD.TMS" and enable you to edit it. 5.2.4. Scrolling over the edited transcription Using the cursor keys try scrolling left and right over the edited file. Move the curser to the leftmost or rightmost side of the screen and keep pressing the cursor keys. You will notice that the screen scrolls in the desired direction. You may hold down Ctrl key while pressing the cursor keys. This will cause the cursor to jump three characters to the left or the right, thus making you scroll faster. You can press PgUp or PgDn keys, to move the cursor twenty characters to the left or the right respectively. This will also make the screen scroll if the cursor should move 'beyond' the screen limits. Try pressing Home and End keys. They will move the cursor to the beginning of the transcription or to the end of the transcription resoectively. Although TM can edit a transcription with maximum length of 3000 characters, the end of the transcription is defined by the location of the last letter or number that was printed in the file. So if you will move the cursor several screens to the right from the end of the tab, pressing End key will bring you back to the end of the tab. But if you will type anything on a location to the right of the end, the end of the tab will be re-located according to the new position. 5.2.5. Creating a TAB file Re-load "MOONCHLD" file, without saving the changes you might have done to it. Then open the Create menu by pressing Alt+C. Select Create option from the Create menu, and press Enter. A small notice will appear as TM creates the output TAB file. This process takes a very short while when creating a relatively small transcription such as the "MOONCHLD" file, but it may take a bit more time when you create bigger files. Now you can exit TM, by selecting Exit command from the File menu, or holding down Alt+X. Take a look at the TM directory: A new file was created, called "MOONCHLD.TAB". "MOONCHLD.TMS" is a file used by TM, and it is written in a format that cannot be comprehended by other programs. ".TMS" files are the only files the TM can load or save. "MOONCHLD.TAB" is a TM output file. It was created by TM from the original ".TMS" file. This file can be sent through e-mail or news servers and be read by other users. It can also be printed or read with any editor. Unfortunately, this file cannot be loaded to TM, so remember not to erase your original ".TMS" files if you think you'd like to edit them in the future. Run TM again, and load "MOONCHLD" again. This time, instead of creating a ".TAB" file, you may select the View command from the Create menu. This will let you see the output ".TAB" without really creating it. It will save you time, so you won't have to leave TM when you want to check your tab file was created correctly. Another option in the Create menu is Print. If you have a printed installed on your PC's lpt port, it will print the transcription on the printer. Both View and Print commands do not create a ".TAB" file. Remember you should run the Create command if you want a ".TAB" file created. 5.2.6. Inserting and removing parts of the transcription Locate the cursor on column from which you want to push the tab forward. Now press Ins (insert) key. The tab will be pushed forward. You can do the oposite: If you made some transcription you find worth removing, press the Del key, and the transcription to the right of the cursor will be pulled back to the cursor and erased. Note that this option removes or pushes the entire column on which the cursor is located. Make sure you don't mistakingly erase text above or under the staff lines. 5.3 Advanced usage of TAB MASTER 5.3.1. The Fast Numbers mode You have probably noticed that one you press a number key when the cursor is on a staff line, it will jump two letters forward, thus the final transctription more easy to read. This process may cause troubles when you try to transcribe the upper frets, 10 and above. Try holding down Shift while pressing the number. The numbers should be pressed on the key pad, not on the numeric pad. If you type in the "!" symbol, the letters "11" will appear on the screen. Typing in shifted numbers (symbols ")", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(") will cause TM to type in values 10 to 19 respectively. If you want to type in values from 20 and above, hold Alt key along with the number: Alt+0 will type in "20", Alt+1 will type "21", etc. This option makes transcribing with TM much faster. It is called Fast Numbers Mode. You can turn it on or off, by entering the Options menu (Alt+O) and pressing Enter on the desired option. Pressing Enter toggles the option on and off. Since working with TM often requires toggling the Fast Numbers mode, a function key was assigned: Press Ctrl+F while the cursor is on the staff lines to toggle the Fast Numbers mode. A little note on the line above the scroll bar will indicate if the Fast Numbers mode is turned on or off. It also presents the current location of the cursor. 5.3.2. The Auto Space and Add Space options Auto Space option causes TM to add some spaces on the staff lines, after a number is pressed. This option makes things much faster when transcribing guitar solos, but it may become annoying when transcribing chords. Generally, you can press Ctrl+CursorRight when you want to go back to the previous cursor position, when AutoSpace is activated, but you can also turn this option off in the Options menu. Auto Space creates a proportional spacing between two notes. It will add two spaces after a single-letter note (0,1,2,...,9), and one space after a two-letters note (10,11,...,29). You may, instead, turn on the Add Space option. This option will add a standard space after each number pressed. You can combine both Auto Space and Add Space by turning them both on, which will cause a proportional spacing of 3 characters. Since turning off the Auto Space mode is often required, you can press Ctrl+A to temporarily switch it off. The Info line will change, informing you that no spaces are added. To stop this mode, like stopping any other editing mode, press Esc key. 5.3.3. Using standard TAB notations Transcribing Tab involves using special ASCII characters. When Fast Numbers mode or Auto Space are turned on, making these standard notations may become difficult. You may turn off the Auto Space and Fast Numbers mode when you edit special symbols, but TM can also supports them: In order to create a "slide" note: e:-------- B:-2/3---- G:-------- D:-------- A:-------- E:-------- Hold Down Ctrl and press S key. Note that the information line is changed, and that now your are editing a Slide. Type the first note. If you want to slide from 2 to 3, you should first type in 2. Consider using Alt or Ctrl combined with numbers to reach higher numbers. The number 2 will appear, followed with with a slash "/" representing "slide up". Right after pressing key 2, press key 3. This result with "2/3--" - TM will make the slide notation, and continue adding spaces as usual. The Slide mode will end and you will be in normal Insert mode once again. To slide down like this: e:---------- B:--12\10--- G:---------- D:---------- A:---------- E:---------- do the following: Press Ctrl+G to indicate Slide Down. The info line will change respectively. Now, type in "@" (shift+2), followed by ")" (shift+0). All these special functions of TM are usable when you are in Fast Numbers mode and Auto Space is on. A list of these fast notations is available on the bottom three lines of the screen. Each function works a little bit different, depending on the number of notes it includes, but the idea is the same: e:-------------- B:--r(2)--l(5)-- G:-------------- D:-------------- A:-------------- E:-------------- Left hand muting is produced by pressing Ctrl+L and then the note number. Right hand muting is activated by Ctrl+R and works the same. e:----------------------------- B:--{2}--3~--!12!-'7'--p(2/5)-- G:----------------------------- D:----------------------------- A:----------------------------- E:----------------------------- Tremolo signs "{2}" are produced by pressing Ctrl+T and then a number. Vibrato sign "3~" is produced by pressing Ctrl+V and a number. Harmonic note "!12!" or semi harmonic "'7'" are produced by Ctrl+N or Ctrl+O. A pick slide "p(2/5)" notation is produced by pressing Ctrl+K followed by to numbers. e:-------------------------------- B:------------b(14)12------------- G:--11b(13)-------------12w(14)--- D:-------------------------------- A:-------------------------------- E:-------------------------------- Bend notation is created by first pressign Ctrl+E, and then typing in two numbers. The same goes for UnBend (Ctrl+U) and Wammy Bar bend (Ctrl+W). When editing the special notation is done TM will return to normal insert mode. Special Tab Notation options can always be aborted by pressing Esc. A special request was sent for me concerning the following option of repetitive notation. If press again the key combination which starts the notation mode, it will start a repeated mode: Press Ctrl+L, and TM will switch into Left-hand-mute mode. Press Ctrl+L again and TM will start a Repeated Left-hand-mute mode. In this mode TM will enable the user to type in a series of special tab notation. So if you want to transcribe mad Al Di Meola, "simply" start the repeated mode: e:-------------------------------------------------------- B:--------------------------------l(3)--------l(3)--l(5)-- G:--l(2)--l(4)--l(5)--l(4)--l(5)--------l(5)-------------- D:-------------------------------------------------------- A:-------------------------------------------------------- E:-------------------------------------------------------- It would make Steve Hacket's Horizons very easy to tab: e:--------------------------------------------- B:------------------!12!----------------------- G:-------------!12!-----------!12!------!12!--- D:--------!12!---------------------!12!-------- A:-----------------------!7!------------------- E:---!7!--------------------------------------- And if you feel a bit like Gilmour today and want to bend a lot: e:--------------------- B:--2b(4)--b(5)--b(7)-- G:--------------------- D:--------------------- A:--------------------- E:--------------------- e:--------------------------------- B:-------2w(4)--w(3)--w(5)--w(4)--- G:--------------------------------- D:--------------------------------- A:--------------------------------- E:--------------------------------- These special notation modes support repetitions: Vibrato, Tremolo, Slide Up, Slide Down, Harmonic, Semi-Harmonic, Left Hand Muting, Right Hand Muting, Bend, Release Bend (UnBend), Wammy Bar Bend. The Auto Brackets option on the Option menu tells TM whether or not to close brackets opened by the special notations keys. This option should normally be set on. If you set it off, it will make TM behave a little different if you run a special notation key while not in Fast Numbers Mode. When not in Fast Numbers Mode, TM will not continue making the special notation, and it will wait for you to finish typing all the numbers of each note. Then, you can press Enter, and TM will wait for the second number (if the specific notation requires another number) or simply close the brackets. If Auto Brackets is turned off, it will not close the brackets. Using Special Notations while not using Fast Numbers and Auto Space is not recommended, and I therefore do not extend about the subject. Try for yourself. 5.3.4. Staff Breaks and Bar Breaks As you can see in the "MOONCHLD.TMS" demo file, vertical lines can be used to indicate end of bars, and serve as indication for the meter and tempo of the song. In my own tab transcriptions, I tend to divide the bar into equal parts, to give the reader an idea about the length of each note: 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a Am G F E:----------------|----------------|----------------| B:----------------|----------------|----------------| G:7-----7/9---5---|----------------|4-5-------------| D:----------------|----------------|----7---7-------| A:----------------|----------------|----------------| E:----------------|----------------|----------------| Pressing Ctrl+B will result in a vertical line of PipeLine symbol. The PipeLine symbol will appear on every staff line where the cursor is located. It will also push forward (as in Insert) the text on the location of the cursor. Pressing Ctrl+P will result in a vertical solid line. This line tells TM to break the staff lines at that point and start a new staff. This option was used when I made this document: I made a long file of examples, and then pressed Ctrl+P between each example. The ".TAB" file created by TM consisted of many short staves that I inserted in the right places for examples. 5.3.5. The Create Options Create menu includes some options and values you may change: Line Width: Select this option and press Enter. A window will pop up and you may write a new desired width. TM refers to this variable to know where to break staves. Legal values for Line Width are 10-255. Note that some screens and printers do not exceed 78 characters per line. Page Length: According to Page Length, TM will calculate when to add Page Breaks symbols, if the Page Breaks parameter is turned on. Legal values for Page Length are 20-255. Many laser printers are set to print 64 lines per page. Staff Space: This parameter tells TM how many empty lines to put between staves. When creating a ".TAB" file, all the edited lines are broken in order to fit with the Line Width parameter. As you can see, there are some empty lines (for text) above and below the staff lines. This parameter sets the amount of lines in addition to those lines that sets the distance between each staff in the output file. Legal values for Staff Space is 0-9. Recommended: 1. Break on Bar: If this parameter is set on, TM will break the staff, if possible, at the location of a bar. This will create a nice looking output file, especially if you consider it when creating the transcription. Try to see how it changes the output file of the demo file "MOONCHLD.TMS". End with Bar: If this parameter is set on, TM will force every end of staff to end with PipeLine symbols, indicating the left margin of the tab. This is very useful if you use Staff Break and Bar Break simultaneuosly in your tab file, and it makes the ".TAB" files look good. Page Breaks: If this parameter is set on, TM will add a Form Feed signal at the end of a page. Form Feed is symbolised by ASCII character 12. Note that these symbols may get lost when you mail or ftp the output file, and also some people may dislike these forced Form Feed - though I personally find them very convenient. 5.3.6. Editing a new tab transcription File menu features a New command. This command open a new window, in which you specify which type of transcription you want to edit. Each selection makes a different tab type: Guitar - features 3 empty lines, then six staff lines, and one additional empty line. Two Guitars - Features 3 empty lines, six staff lines for first guitar, one empty line, and six staff lines for the second guitar. Bass - Features 3 empty lines, four bass staff lines and two additional empty lines. Guitar & Bass - Features 3 empty lines, six staff lines for guitar, one empty line, 4 bass staff lines and two empty lines. 5 fret Bass - Features 3 empty lines, five bass staff lines, and two empty lines. The last option on the New menu, is Custom Made... This is partly a joke, but it is really a very powerful option. Selecting Custom Made will open another window. In this window you may customize the 16 lines of the TM editor in any way you want, to fit with your request. You may put 5 different items in the 16 lines of the editor. Move the cursor to select the desired item, and press "+" or "-" keys to change every item setting. The possible settings are: - 1 empty line - 2 empty lines - 3 empty lines - 4 empty lines - 4 Bass lines - 5 Bass lines - 6 Bass lines - 6 Guitar lines - 7 Guitar lines - None Change the setting of each item the way you want your tab transcription to look. Note that TM automatically calculates the sum of the lines and doesn't let it exceed 16. If you set more than 16 lines it will automatically set the overflowing items to None. Custom Made option makes TM a very powerful editor: When you edit a transcription that features 2 or more staves, Ctrl+P or Ctrl+B will be activated on ALL the staves on the location of the cursor. "MOONCHLD.TMS" file features a two guitar setting. You may consider editing complicated transcriptions, featuring guitar and bass. as you can see, TM supports various types of guitars and basses. Note that selecting the amount of staves and empty spaces should be the first step you do when transcribing tab on TM. Once you select it, you cannot change an existing transcription to feature other staves or other empty lines. 5.3.7. Aborting a transcription that wasn't saved TM will request for the user's approval before aborting an edited transcription which was not saved. When trying to load a new file or quiting the program when the edited file is not saved, TM will notify the user. Select Yes or No in the interactive window. You may exit TM when editing without selecting Exit on the File menu, simply by pressing Ctrl+X. 5.3.8. Saving TAB MASTER settings All the TM setting can be saved from the Options menu, in the Save Setting command. TM will save the values of the different parameters and switches, and it will also save the staves and empty lines you currently use. Next time TM will run, it will start using these settings. The TM configuration file is "TABLAT.CFG". DO NOT TRY TO MANUALLY CHANGE IT IN ANY WAY! If the configuration file become corrupt, TM may not work at all. In that case, erase the configuration file, and TM will start working again using the original (default) setting. Now you can operate Save Settings and a new TABLAT.CFG file will be created. 6. After TM works... 6.1. Editing the output ".TAB" file You can edit the ".TAB" file created in TM after you finished transcribing it with TM. When editing the output file later, you can add your remarks about it, put some more text lines between the staves etc. If your transcription exceeds 3000 characters, you cannot edit it all with TM. Anyway, I'm sure none of the users of TM will ever transcribe such a big piece, but if you do run into this program, consider splitting the transcription into several files, create a ".TAB" file from each of them, and then merge them using a normal text editor. Note that one of TM options creates ".TAB" files with form feed symbols. When editing a ".TAB" file created by TM using this option, make sure you don't exceed the number of lines per page. You may also remove the little TM banner on the top of the output file. 6.2. What should be improved I know TABLAT is not complete. Future version will include mouse support, and hopefully will work on MONOCHROME screens. Another feature is strings tuning - I wanted to make it available on this release, but I ran out of time. Block operations - Copy, Cut, Paste are also considered. I hope I'll make them available on future versions. Another thing is the Load Menu - I know it should include a file selection window, but I don't have the patience for doing that - sorry. Please report bugs to my e-mail address. If you've got an idea you think I should add to TM - please tell me about it. Enjoyed the program? - consider letting me know about it! It encourages me to work further on TM and improve it. You may want to drop a note on your final tab transcription, saying it was created by TAB MASTER. 6.3. Paying for TAB MASTER? TM should be distributed freely, with no fee charged for it. BUT, if you enjoyed using it, if you find it useful, if you find it makes transcribing tab easier.... If you think my project improves and adds to the world-wide guitar tab collection... If you appreciate my 110K of source code and 40K of documentation... Please consider sending me a small fee! 7. Command summary Special Editing Keys: CTRL + Left Arrow / Right Arrow - Jumps 3 characters left or right PgUp / PgDn - Advances 20 characters left or right BackSpace - Move the cursor one character to the left Del - Delete one column on the location of the cursor Ins - Insert one column on the location of the cursor Home / End - Advance cursor to the end or the beginning of the document. Special Editing Modes: On Fast Numbers: Shift + Number - numbers 10-19 Alt + Number - numbers 20-29 CTRL+V - Vibrato Sign: ---6~---- CTRL+S - Slide Up: ---5/7--- CTRL+G - Slide Down: ---7\5--- CTRL+N - Harmonic sign: ---!12!-- CTRL+O - Semi Harmonic sign: ---'5'--- CTRL+L - Left Hand Muting: ---l(5)-- CTRL+R - Right Hand Muting: ---r(5)-- CTRL+T - Tremolo: ---{5}--- CTRL+K - Pick Slide: --p(5/7)- CTRL+E - Bend String: --5b(7)-- CTRL+U - Release from Bending: --(7)b5-- CTRL+W - Wammy Bar Bend --5w(7)-- CTRL+F - For convenience, toggles Fast Numbers Mode CTRL+A - Temporarily, disables Auto Space and Add Space Bar Breaks CTRL + B - Bar Break sign (|) CTRL + P - Staff Break sign (│) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy!!! Ofir Zwebner 26/5/1994 e-mail: ofirz1@ccsg.tau.ac.il snail-mail: Ehoud 10, Tel Aviv, 69936, Israel