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Fletch Diatonic makes it easy to tab out the step-by-step actions needed to play any lick, riff, melody or solo played on a diatonic harmonica. If you can type, you can use Fletch in any Windows or Macintosh app that can write text, from a notepad app to a full blown music notation program.

Just by using the top two rows of your keyboard, you can tab out all the blow and draw notes for up to 12 holes. One keystroke will notate the hole and breath direction:

You can indicate all the normal bends, overblows and overdraws, plus “impossible” bends only available on special harps like half-valved harps such as the Seydel Gazell Method harps or responder-reed harps such as the Suzuki Sub 30, X-Reed harps, and Hohner XB-40.

And that’s only the beginning. You can notate nearly any embellishment or special effect.

Fletch can notate chords of any size and includes such harmonica-specific effects as warbles (shakes), rips, and bending into and out of notes.

Fletch gives you a full complement of tongue blocked effect symbols, including octaves and other split intervals, tongue lifts, hammers, slaps, and pulls, rakes, and shimmers –and corner switches.

By the way, you get all this power in a single font. No need to switch to different font to access different techniques or effects. Fletch contains everything you’ll need. To check out all the possibilities that Fletch offers, click here to check out the comprehensive user’s manual, which includes installation instructions, symbol key, keyboard and character maps, and usage suggestions.

Fletch comes in TrueType (.TTF) format, and works with both Windows and Macintosh OS X El Capitan.
Fletch can be yours for just US$10.00. The font will be emailed to you upon payment.

It’s easy to use Chromatic Sans to tab out music for chromatic harmonica. Tab shows the actions you use to play a note or series of notes – which hole(s) to play, whether to inhale or exhale, whether to press the slide button in, and so on. Chromatic Sans is a font that converts the standard letters, numbers, and symbols on your computer keyboard into chromatic harmonica action symbols.

The top two rows of your computer keyboard give you all the main tab symbols with a single keystroke:

While holding down the key gives you the slide-in notes, which are indicated by hollow arrowheads:

Chromatic Sans can tab actions for any size of chromatic harmonica up to 16 holes and can notate chords of any size. It also gives you special symbols for such harmonica-specific effects as:

• slide ornaments
• warbles (shakes)
• bending expressively into and out of notes
• bends of up to 5 semitones
• glissandos and rips

Chromatic Sans also gives you a full complement of tongue blocked effect symbols, including:

• octaves and other split intervals
• tongue lifts, vamps, and hammers
• slaps and pulls, rakes, and shimmers
• corner switching

Chromatic Sans works with any chromatic harmonica note layout – standard solo tuning, augmented, diminished, boogie woogie, LeGato, or any other tuning, as long as it’s housed in the body of a standard slide chromatic harmonica.

Chromatic Sans comes with a comprehensive PDF user’s manual including installation instructions, symbol key, keyboard and character maps, and usage suggestions.Click here to view the Chromatic Sans Manual.

Chromatic Sans comes in TrueType (.TTF) format and works with both Windows and Macintosh OS X El Capitan.

Chromatic Sans is available for US$10.00. The font will be emailed to you upon payment.