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Re:Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens by rodw on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:39PM (#21755401)
Lol, I've never even seen at VexFlow before, or if I have I've forgotten about it.

But from a quick scan I think FATpick's tablature view is a little different what VexFlow does. FATpick's view is like a "piano-roll" - the x-axis maps directly to time such that the notes scroll from right to left at a constant rate, with the width of each "bubble" directly corresponding to the duration of that note. VexFlow does "traditional" tablature (and stave) notation, like the sheet music most people are familiar with, in which all notes are more-or-less the same width on the score, independent of duration.

That said, adding conventional (stave) notation to the player view (instead of or in addition to tabs) is on the roadmap, and VexFlow seems like it be very useful for that.

Re:Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens by mrkstu on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @04:03PM (#21756831)
I think stave+tab would be ideal. What little guitar I've picked up has actually been stave notation, but I've got a lot of missing chords in my knowledge base- having the tab right there by the notes/chords would help me master new chords...
Re:Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens by rodw on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:04PM (#21757352)
Actually, as you probably already know, there's a third notation that is commonly used for chords, like these things - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chord+box&iax=images&ia=images

That's also on the roadmap. Right now FATpick renders chords just like any other set of notes in tablature, which is less than ideal once you have much experience with playing chords at all.