![]() GITI translates very directly to familiar old quasi-graphic tab form, but it brings a more appreciable structure with the modularity of act, pitch, and time. Basic defaults to the previous sound's (a special, ‘carry-on’, default (with the ultimate default being the last annotation tempo fractional note)), and extra defaults to none (so the extra is not carried-on: it must always be explicitly stated). :2Ī sound (including continuations and rests) can omit its time entirely, or either of its main two parts. Continuation sounds are merely a shorthand for a tied note, and have a ‘ &’ and time, instead of act and pitch: &:2Īnd Rests have a ‘. There are two special sound forms: Continuation and Rest. - – (suffix) continue to next sound – left side of a tie.* or -8 – (suffix) extend by dot, or number fraction (repeatable).- – (prefix) continue from previous sound – right side of a tie.4 – number: lower part of the fraction of bar length, with three optional augmentations:.The following sections will explain the details. The format also allows degrees of simplification: omitting chords, ornament, articulation (second line), and time, down to only pitch (third line): 63=55:2 45 54r1:2**e s:54/10:8sĪnd GITI can also be rendered back into tab-form including all its extras (actuation above, time below): # Black Sabbath ‘Black Sabbath’, main giti:e-4.1 tuning:std tempo:3.603 In GITI it is (note first how the 3, 5, 4 fret-numbers are prepended with their string-number): # Black Sabbath ‘Black Sabbath’, main giti:e-4.1 tuning:std tempo:3.603 Sounds and indicators are blank-separated tokens, and annotations and comments are special lines.Īs a brief overview, consider this ordinary tab: Black Sabbath ‘Black Sabbath’, main riff The former might be an easy addition, but the latter would need more design and adjustment.Ī whole Piece is a string of Sounds, Indicators, Annotations, and Comments. This version does not cover vibrato-bridge use or complex parallelism. But it can also be rendered in familiar quasi-graphic tab form. GITI follows the specialisation of tabs but flattens them into a more manipulable word-like form, and redeems the larger shortfall by adding a traditional kind of time information – all somewhat inspired by the event-packet basic form of MIDI. Guitar tabs are better focused, but with obvious weaknesses and still awkward to read automatically and write manually. ![]() Traditional musical notation is powerful and general, but rather mechanically complex and demanding (despite its aesthetic recompense). The format is in ASCII text (so also UTF-8). GITI is concise, expressive, and usable by both humans and software. This is a description/specification of GITI (variant E) – Guitar Instrument Text Interface (electric) – version 4.1: an electric guitar music notation text format.
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