I wanted to throw in my two cents.... I think that the TAB idea is a great one, but it seems that it might require a whole new approach to interfacing the DB software. And that's fine, (if Ben has time to invent it!). But also I understand, as a guitar player, the desire to play along to certain kinds of drum patterns, or maybe even to an exact drum pattern from a favorite song. Maybe an approach would be to create a database of DB files of specific songs created by users themselves. Generally, I'll create a fairly simple & basic rock drum track that I can play along with. Then after fine-tuning the song, I sometimes wish I had the time and/or patience to create some meaningful fills, or drum transitions, etc., that I could add on top of my basic drum pattern. If there was a bank where someone uploaded their (DB) re-creation, say for example, of Springsteen's "Backstreets" (drums only, of course) -- I would find that invaluable!! I'd download it and play along...or maybe even create my own song with that drum pattern. I realize it's essentially a shared loop library, of sorts, albeit with longer and more specific files, but I think it could really generate some creative movement among the DB community. Just a thought..... -Patrick ----Original Message Follows---- From: Sion Morris <sionwm@cinnamondesign.co.uk> To: doggiebox@lists.zygoat.ca Subject: [Doggiebox] Drum tabs Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:23:00 +0000 Hi Mike Yeah - I've had a look at Guitar Tab, which is great for composing or transcribing ascii to chords etc. What I would like to do though is to take a piece of ascii data and transcribe it to a doggiebox db so that I can play guitar along to it or muck about with the patterns. Its just that there are thousands of songs drum tabs already transcribed in ascii and thats likely to continue no matter how popular db gets. In short: I think of a song which I'd like to learn; I find the drum tab on the net; I copy/paste it into doggiebox and play. Then I can play guitar along to an accurate drum track for the song. (having also got the guitar tab from he net). I can do this at the moment, but it means manually transcribing the drum which is a pain, although much less so with the new sections. .. I see what you're saying about the internal midi, which is a good idea `I must say, but Its a second best option compared with the realistic sound you get from DB plus it would be better if you wanted to record your efforts at the end of the day. Also, Ive just thought, If this were possible, many many songs woulb be transcribed ad shared by all of us users increasing the doggiebox library of db tab resources. Cheers Sion

There's a Mac application called Guitar Tab that has the ability to read and write ASCII files as tab. In other words, when you use the program to compose or transcribe your tab, you can export it as ASCII. Likewise, you can import ASCII files and play them with your system's built in MIDI instruments.

Is this the kind of thing you guys are talking about? How is sharing tablature easier than sharing song files? I must be missing something.

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