abc-to-guitar's Introduction

ABC to Guitar TAB Converter

Summary

Take an ABC tune file and convert to guitar tab showing possible string/fret combinations that will play the required note.

Installation

This script is very heavily dependent on Lucas Campagnola's pyabc script which you need to install in your environment. At present the easiet method for installing this is:

wget https://github.com/wxtim/pyabc/archive/makepyabc-a-module.zip -O pyabc.zip
unzip pyabc.zip -d 
pip install -e pyabc-makepyabc-a-module

wget https://github.com/wxtim/ABC-to-guitar/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd ABC-to-guitar-master

Current Command Line usage.

usage: abctoguitar.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--maxfret MAXFRET] [--minfret MINFRET] [--testmode] [--transpose TRANSPOSE] [--tuning {EADGBE,DADGBE}] input

Take and ABC file and render possible guitar tabs

positional arguments:
  input                 An ABC file to feed to this script.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                        Name for output file. If unset will replace *.abc with *.tab
  --maxfret MAXFRET, -x MAXFRET
                        The highest fret to allow use of. Default is 5th.
  --minfret MINFRET, -m MINFRET
                        the lowest fret you wish to use. Default is 0.
  --testmode            turns on verbose printing out output
  --transpose TRANSPOSE, -t TRANSPOSE
                        Number of octaves to transpose
  --tuning {EADGBE,DADGBE}
                        Guitar tunings.

Tim Pillinger, 2019 based on the work of Luke Campagnola, 2014