Notes for guitar players

A cumbersome cheatsheet to help my son learning to play the guitar! The compiled version can be found in the directory final.

Workflow

1. Create abc files with in LaTeX;in directory abc: pdflatex -shell-escape buildAbc.tex; see tex file for examples
2. Add guitar chords to cheatsheet.tex and arrange in columns
3. Compile: pdflatex cheatsheet.pdf

Software requirements

• LaTeX
• abcm2ps

Further reading

• Wikipedia entry for abc notation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation]
• Nice abc examples [http://abcnotation.com/examples#Notes]
• Manual for the abc LaTeX package [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/abc/]

Disclaimer

I have no musical background whatsoever. I am not even sure of the English vocabulary for that stuff.