For me this started with the “Dorico Flash Cards and Worksheets” document. This showed that Dorico could be used not only to produce performance scores, but also other documents, for instance for training purpose, without needing to use external tools, whether Word, Powerpoint, or some SVG like Graphic editor.
Then I thought about Tablatures. In the old times, before the mensural notation and the 5-lines staff became omnipresent, there were Tablatures for all sorts of instruments. They became “obsolete” on the principle that the new techniques made them unnecessary. Practically only the tablatures for plucked strings instruments survived. But I think it should not be judged as a competition between 2 systems for the same purpose: even with the generalized acceptance of the staff system, tablatures could have a use for practicing: the tablature usually realize on paper (or screen) a stylization of somne instruments and provide a way of depict visually the impact (from the fingers or the bows, or of mallets) of the performance. And even now there remain some communities devoted to the rebirth of tablatures.
In particular for the piano (the keyboards in general), there is Klavar (Klavarskribo — Wikipédia). Their objectives are not really mine, because they really want to promote learning to read music from tablatures only, while I was thinking of some tool to help practice a piece of which you already possess the (now) conventional notation.
But the inspired me. I have never played piano, or even harpsichord. My instrument is a Provençal version of the Tabor Pipe, a one-hand straight flute in one hand and a drum played from the other one. But I started to replace (experimentally) the drum by a marimba played with two mallets in my free hand. Recently I even started to play a Rameau harpsichord score with 2 mallets (one in each hand, no flute). Even if this exceptional for me, I became something of a keyboard player. And I wondered how a Keyboard Tablature might be designed in Dorico.
Of course this will not be of blockbuster, but from what I have seen of forum members they could be some interest. I would welcome reactions, and suggestions. I am attaching a png of the 1st 2 systems.
One again there is no idea that the tablature part could pretend to be an alternative performance score. It is a companion for a notation staff, which might even have been simplified for practice purposes.
KbdTab-2-cc-36-F2-C-chords.pdf (31.9 KB)
An other example to show this can be used for very mundane things!