Melanie Johnston - TablEdit Manual, MAC Version

Excellent

This is an outstanding manual for TablEdit focused on dulcimer. The software itself has some quirks and how to do some things is not the least bit transparent but the examples provided in this book are relevant and helpful. This book and the software are two of the best purchases I have made.

I’ve only used the manual for 10 minutes and I’ve already completed tabbing a song. Looking forward to diving deeper into the book.

Excellent directions to follow step by step. They never addressed how to insert the 1st and 2nd endings though, as far as I could see. Finally my son stumbled on it accidentally and all is well again. That’s my only complaint, otherwise it’s been a great help.

Thank you for providing an easy to follow manual. Don’t know what I’d do without it!

It made the difference between getting right into the program and putting it off because it seemed so daunting!

Melanie Johnston - TablEdit Manual, MAC Version

This is an excellent tutorial that left me with a good understanding of TablEdit’s capabilities and processes. It’s clear, well-written, and well-organized; the author has obviously expended a lot of time and careful thought on it. I did follow the instructions on tying notes without any success, although this is the only possible flaw I’ve discovered so far. Overall, however, purchasing this manual was money well spent, and I’m quite pleased with it.

Extremely helpful book. Got my money's worth before I was half-way through.

I bought this book to use in a class with Melanie, it has been very easy to use with a good step-by-step walkthrough. Very helpful.

Purchased directly from Melanie some years ago. It is excellence and a must have. Worth every cent.

It is a balance of narrative directions with helpful illustrations of the specific actions noted in the manual. Way more helpful than a manual in a fully narrative style. While focused on the Dulcimer there seem to be tens if not a hundred or so choices for choosing the musical instrument you play. You can also compose for multiple instruments. A lot of flexibility for sizing the draft page Seems a good choice for transcribing handwritten tab as well.

After taking an online class with Melanie, I purchased her TablEdit book as an easier resource than my scribbled notes. The manual is well organized and offers effective and clear examples and tips. This is a good adjunct to the online user manual and will be a great resource as I work to gain skill in writing out, saving, and printing tab-based arrangements.

If you use TablEdit, then you already know that it can be a bear to navigate. This manual answers so many questions and saves you from having to search the online manual. It has been great not only reinforcing what I already know but also teaching me techniques that have really made my tabbing more efficient. I recommend this manual to anyone especially those starting out.

I'm new to creating tablature and I found this guide to be very valuable. The walkthrough is excellent. Pick-up a copy!

Genius

Easy to understand. It will be very helpful.

I’ve had TablEdit for several years, have struggled with figuring it out, but I’d not heard about Melanie’s instructional manual until an earlier Quarantune Festival. Since I finally downloaded it, I’ve spent hours following along, page by page, and having “ah ha” moments, one after another. Simple things, like changing the font of guitar chords, plugging in a pickup note, and more, and I’m not done with the manual. I already have questions about settings to tab out for my chromatic dulcimer, so I’ll be in touch if I don’t see answers. This has been well-worth the fee. Thanks, Melanie!

I found this guide to be very helpful in explaining how to use TablEdit to create Mountain Dulcimer Tablature for my music at https://linktr.ee/brian.bohlman

It would have taken me weeks to understand Tabledit without this guide. It is clear and extremely helpful!

The only problem I have already found is the entering a triplet into my sheet music of Tabledit. I saw a video online and discovered the correct method of entering a triplet.

Melanie’s put together an easy to follow book to get started with TablEdit and make life easier when first using the program. I am using the Macintosh version.

Great so far. It is a great program for writing music for the Mountain Dulcimer.

The book seems to be very well done. I have not had a chance to study all details, but will be taking her virtual class in April.

I have just begun with it, but it takes a very easy to follow step-by-step to get things set up. So far, I am extremely happy and it is shortening my time to become a user, rather than a fumble-througher.

Just what I was looking for. The full-blown manual from Tab|Edit includes things I won't ever use. This one is customized for dulcimer. In the first 5 minutes of reading, the author cleared up 3 questions I've had.

Melanie Johnston's TablEdit manual helps clear up the mystery of using TablEdit. The manual addressed a lot of the problems I was having using the program.

Melanie Johnston - TablEdit Manual, PC Version

Excellent book. It is a must have for Tabledit users. Very quick delivery. Folk craft is the best. They can always be relied on th have whatever you need.

I wish I had known about this manual before I attempted to learn TablEdit on my own. I wasted hours on trial-and-error, watching YouTube, and reading lengthy explanations on the TablEdit website. Melanie has figured everything out for you.

She takes you through the setting-up process and gives you all of the settings right from the beginning, all the way through to the minute subtleties of the program. I had a problem with chord placement. For some reason my chord names appeared between the notation and the tabs. In two sentences she told how to do it, whereas the TablEdit program took an entire page explaining everything in detail, and even then I didn’t understand it. I still have a lot to learn from this manual.