fiferboy / bashtar

Simple guitar in bash

bashtar

Simple guitar in bash

dependencies

bash

ALSA (or pulseaudio) [Linux only]

alsa-utils (Linux) or sox (Mac)

installation

*nix

git clone https://github.com/quisys/bashtar

cd bashtar

./bashtar.sh

mac compatibility

for this program to work on a Mac, it requires aplay to point to sox

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/sox /usr/bin/aplay

usage

keys are similar to a guitar; 1 plays an open e, 2 plays an open a and so on.
q plays an f on the e string, w plays an a sharp and so on.
basically, the first 6 numbers are open strings and the alpha keys are the fretboard.

example: open b string = 5, first fret = t, second = g, third = b