Igor Engraver Manual

CHAPTER 12
Guitar Fingering & Tablature
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All the music input commands above are available, just as all music input commands
in Igor, in the Input menu during music input mode.
12.2.5 Out-of-limit highlighting
The above shows some of the highlights Igor will make to help warn you that
something is wrong. You can ignore this if you want, since it prints ok (black,
not red as it is on the screen an in the PDF version of the manual). Or use the
context menu Override tab fret from the Tab fretting menu on a fret number, to
change the fret number text.
Usually the indications show that something is really wrong—from left to right
above:
• The first note can not be played on the second string (where it has been pinned) since
it is too low pitched. Retune the guitar or pin the note to another string (or remove
the string override altogether). Retune here means to use the context menu Adjust
tab/string tuning on the tab staff to modify the range of the second string.
• The second note can not be played on fret 19 since this guitar has been set up to have
18 frets. Retune or pin to another string.
• You can not have a chord with seven notes on a six stringed guitar. Igor complains
with an Overcrowd text instead of a fret number.
• The second note of bar three can not be played since the E note sounds at the same
time and since the G note can not be played on any other string than the E string.
Igor complains that the note is too Low in pitch compared to the available strings.
• Simple out of pitch—the note is too High in pitch.
Two other highlights are possible: