When I start a Tux Guitar session I have to start Qsynth first, and then make sure the two programs are talking to each other before I can proceed with the notation project I have in mind. The connection can be made through JACK or directly between the two programs. I connect it to Qsynth, which is a GUI front-end for Fluidsynth. When you install Tux Guitar you also need a software synthesizer in order to hear any sound output. Tux Guitar is really just a notation editor and sequencer, and does not include a synthesizer. There are two Free software tools which I use for writing guitar tablature on Linux, which I will review here.
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When my garage band broke up I spent a lot of time writing down all of our songs in tablature so that I wouldn’t forget how to play them.
Learning about tablature opened up a whole new world of guitar music and playing technique for me. Reading standard music notation has never been easy for me, but tablature is simple to understand because I think of guitar music in terms of where I put my fingers on the fretboard, not in terms of the names of the notes I am playing. My friend let me take the magazine home, and I learned how to play the whole song that day. “The lines are the strings, and the numbers are the frets.” I stared at it for a few minutes, and then tried to play a few bars. When I was 15 years old my friend showed me a guitar magazine that had the music for a song we both liked, and it was written in tablature.
As long as I had the chords and knew the tune, I could play any song. When I was 10 years old my dad gave me a chord chart and a few John Denver songs to learn, and I was off to the races. I am a self-taught guitarist, learning to play mostly by ear.
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