But if we have a million posts about picks I guess a few about TEF files are ok. In Sibelius 2: hold down Shift-Option or Shift+Alt and type the required number using the numbers on the main keyboard (not the numeric keypad) In Sibelius 1.x: hold Shift and use the up and down arrow keys. I bet you can find a million posts just like this talking about them too. In Sibelius 3, 4 and 5: see the Guitar tab input topic in your documentation. I've found good ones on mandozine and of course here on the Cafe too. Otherwise you can find other ones set up for multiple instruments. If you want them to have the mandolin tab and melody, look for mandolin-specific ones. You can find TEF files all over the Internet.
This thing is really helping me get more fluent with tab, be able to play better with a "group", and learn some tunes! The full Tabledit program is really a bit expensive but I'm thinking about buying it just to support the developer. When you get good enough that you don't need to have the melody to play along with, you can turn it off and just have the accompaniment going so you can do your own thing. To use Quick Input when you modify entities using EGrips: Make sure EGrips and Quick Input are on. Input - This is where we will store all the supplier files.We can create two sub-folders within Input folder viz. I prefer to store all the work-related stuff in one common folder named Work. We will create the following folders and files. It also supports the harmonica, mountain dulcimer, diatonic accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, Xaphoon, autoharp, pedal steel guitar, and banjo. Let’s create the skeleton for our project. The measure lines will still be there, and you'll need to enter your tab into the right measures. The notes will still appear when you are composing (.tef) but just ignore them, as you wouldn't be printing them anyway. The tef file contains tablatures (tabs) and sheet music for the guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass. The TAB ONLY mode is a quick, handy way for users who don't want to deal with notation to do up some tab. Quick Input helps when you modify entities using EntityGrips (EGrips). The tef file extension is used by TabEdit. Right-click QInput on the status bar and click On or Off.
And you can slow it waaaaaaaaay down! It also scrolls by and keeps your place so you don't even have to flip pages and you can make it loop. To turn on and off Quick Input: Do one of the following: Click QInput on the status bar. It plays the music to you! It's an electronic format called midi so it sounds like a computer but it's fine for practicing. Well, these TEF files (Tabledit format) and this program called TefPad for my iPad (or tefview for the computer which is free) has changed my life! I always avoided it because I assumed it would just let me print the tab. I understand how it works but I'm just not nearly as quick and don't feel like tab gives me the info I'm getting from notation, I can't hear it in my head by reading the tab and my reading is not quick enough to read the tab and play at the same time. I have never been able to pick up tab and read it very quickly, whether when I was learning guitar or ukulele or now mandolin.
TablEdit runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Windows Mobile (PocketPC).So I have classical training (not on mandolin) and read notation very well. Files can be saved in TablEdit format or exported to ASCII tab, HTML, ABC, RTF, MIDI or WAV formats or pasted in to most graphics programs to be saved as JPG, GIF, PNG and most other image formats. TablEdit can open/import ASCII tab, MIDI files, Abc notation, MusicXML, Bucket O' Tab, TabRite, and Wayne Cripps files. Through ongoing consultation with experts on other instruments, Matthieu has developed support in TablEdit for harmonica, mountain dulcimer, diatonic button accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, Xaphoon, autoharp, pedal steel guitar, piano, and banjo (even taking the fifth string into proper consideration.) Matthieu responded to their requests and input and as a result, TablEdit is not limited to guitar like other tablature programs. As more musicians started using TablEdit, Matthieu got feedback from those users, many of which played other instruments besides guitar. The original TablEdit, released in 1997, was written by Matthieu Leschemelle to aid himself in learning to play guitar music as arranged by Marcel Dadi. TablEdit Tablature Editor is a computer program that allow musicians to create, edit, print and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass guitar. Platform = Windows, Macintosh, and Windows Mobile (PocketPC)