Church in the Wildwood

[Marcavery]

Anyone have the mandolin tab for this tune?

[Marcavery]

Guess I am off to firgue this one out of my lonesome self.

[Wendy Anthony]

I found the MIDI, lyrics & history of the tune "The Church in the Wildwood" by Dr. William S. Pitts ...

The MIDI can be imported into TablEdit and converted to Mandolin tab ... this version is in the Key of Bb, tho I found it easier to play, with the chord voicings as is, when transposed to the Key of G ... I guess it depends on which key it will be sung in ...

Keepin' tuned ...
Wendy Anthony

[csstanley]

I tried to import the song into my TablEdit and it said it ran into an error and had to shut down.

What was that?

I was watching this thread because I like this song and was wondering if anybody had the tab and when you said that about TablEdit, I had to give it a try. But i ran into this problem.

[Wendy Anthony]

I'm not sure what might have produced the error ... I have no problem when I use these steps to create a TablEdit file from MIDI ...

To Import MIDI files into TablEdit:

1. Save MIDI file to your computer

2. In TablEdit create a new file with File > New ... check Mandolin Tablature > OK

3. File > Import MIDI ... select MIDI file > Open

4. Depending On the Number of Tracks (a 1-track MIDI like this one will automatically import into the current module) ... Choose track to Import: To Current Module ... (or, if more than 1 track, choose all tracks, then Import: To Separate Modules - now you can choose which track to import to Mandolin-tuned module) > Import > Close

5. File > SaveAs

6. You will probably need to manually tweak the fretted notes/tab to make it playable on the mandolin (red brackets indicate difficult/impossible fingering situations ;^)... (or transpose to a different key in Score > Transpose) ... (some MIDIs may also contain timing errors, shown as red tab-notes - if you highlite the tabbed note & press the key "j", the timing will correct itself)

Hope this helps ...

Keepin' tuned ...
Wendy Anthony

[csstanley]

Wendy, like a dummy, I had to restart the computer for the program to work right. I went back in and it worked.

I just need to buy the full version now. So I can get the mando tab. Unless you know how to pull that up from the free version.