I've been teaching mandolin for many years now, and amassed a great deal of hand-out material, apart from all the music I've produced. There are hand-outs on types of music (ragtime, bluegrass, old-time, blues, hornpipes, marches, etc) and specific techniques (double-stops, sliding, hammer-ons, decoration) and related subjects (composition, interpretation, etc).
I've been looking at ways that this material can be made accessible to people, and it seems to be to be that PDF files are the way to go. I have several gigabytes of free storage space on-line, so I'd store the files remotely with links from my site. For example:
Double Stops
is a handout describing my method of employing double stops, with an example tune.
Is this something that you think would be useful to people? Is there any way that the concept could be improved? Any and all feedback welcome.
Excellent idea, Nigel. pdf files certainly offer the best route since folks can then save ones that are particular pertinent to what they are trying to achieve. Adding an index pdf file that is updated as new files are loaded is the only thing I can think of right now.
Cheers,
Eric
This is an excellent idea, Nigel, and pdf files are easily accessible to anyone. Google Documents seems able to handle them too.
It might even be that some of the members have material/tunes they have produced for their own or students' use and would be willing to offer them for possible inclusion into the general set. I have some tunes done in standard notation and mando tab (probably already in the wider domain but I produced them often out of my unwillingness to be bothered looking further for them!). I do not have the Acrobat software to produce pdf files, but I am looking at abc Explorer which can create pdf files from abc notation, if I can get my head round abc creation.
It just seems to me as a relative newcomer to your site that you do a great deal of work at present producing music, tabs, etc but do not get material in return (apart from the obvious pleasure you gain by making all your stuff available and thus widening the appeal and availability of our music).
How would you, and other members of the group, feel about sharing material in this way -with yourself as moderator?
(03-10-2010 05:36 PM)John Kelly Wrote: [ -> ]I do not have the Acrobat software to produce pdf files, but I am looking at abc Explorer which can create pdf files from abc notation, if I can get my head round abc creation.
Check out
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html since all it requires is for you to cut-and-paste the abc into a box and then click.
(04-10-2010 12:19 PM)Eric Renshaw Wrote: [ -> ] (03-10-2010 05:36 PM)John Kelly Wrote: [ -> ]I do not have the Acrobat software to produce pdf files, but I am looking at abc Explorer which can create pdf files from abc notation, if I can get my head round abc creation.
Check out http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html since all it requires is for you to cut-and-paste the abc into a box and then click.
Thanks for that link, Eric. Very useful and one I had not looked at before.
Very good idea, PDF is an excellent format to read and to print. I'd love to have the hand-out on double stops.