A Javascript module for making guitar and bass tabs using a shorthand notation.

var NoodleTab = require("../src/noodle-tab.js");

var phrases = {
	start: "5: 5 7 8 4: 5 5: 7 - 6: 8 5: 5 - 54650# -"
};

var output = NoodleTab.makeTab('start', phrases);
console.log(output);

E|--------------------------------------0-------|
B|--------------------------------------5-------|
G|--------------------------------------6-------|
D|--------------5-----------------------4-------|
A|--5---7---8-------7-----------5-------5-------|
E|--------------------------8-------------------|

This step is only necessary if you want to change the grammar. To rebuild the parser make sure you have Pegjs installed.

npm install -g pegjs

Then run Pegjs with the updated grammar file as the input.

pegjs ./src/noodle-parser.pegjs

This should create a new file ./src/noodle-parser.js

Parses a set of phrases and returns a string containing the tab starting from the specified start phrase.

• Parameters

  • startPhrase: A string containing the name of a phrase to start from.
  • phrases: An object where each key is the id of a phrase and each value is a string representing the phrase in shorthand notation.
  • format: Optional config object with values that control tab formatting
    • autoWidth: if true the last block will be truncated
    • lineWidth: the number of dashes in each tab line
    • noteSpacing: the number of dashes between each note
    • barSpacing: the number of dashes to put after a bar
    • lineCount: the number of tab lines in each block
    • openTunings: an array of strings to specify the tuning of each string

NoodleTab uses the following symbols in its phrase notation. Symbols can be separated with spaces, tabs, or newlines.

• add chords diagrams
• output to svg or canvas

MIT