-
Guitar Pro 8 software
I believe that Tony is using Guitar Pro 8 software to generate PDFs as tab sheets for the daily challenges. (Correct me if I’m wrong). I started playing guitar a bit more than a year ago, and I recently found Guitar Pro software—it’s a great practice tool for me, especially for stuff like scales and technique challenge, because it allows me to play along right with the tab, and to increase/decrease playback speed with more nuance than the TAC video window allows.
As a practice tool, it’s kind of like an metronome/tab combination. You can highlight specific bars for playback, which helps getting finger technique nailed down section by section without having to go all the way back to the start of the video each time.
I’ve taken to creating my own Guitar Pro files using Tony’s PDFs as reference. It’s a bit time consuming—takes maybe 5 to 15 minutes, depending upon the material. Today I learned how to create the little grace note for a slide (there is a grace note effect in GP, as well as several slide options). It took maybe a half hour of fumbling around to figure out how to do it, but it was worth it. (This was for the technique challenge for the first day of the Tax Man lesson).
I wonder if anyone has experience with this software: and specifically, whether anyone knows if it is possible import a PDF that was generated on Guitar Pro (again, I could be wrong, but Tony’s PDFs look exactly like Guitar Pro files). If I could easily import the PDF, it would save a bit of time.
I’ve checked Guitar Pro forums, reddit, etc., and it looks like it might not be possible, but I’m just wondering if anyone knows definitively.
-
6 Replies
-
hi
you’ll probably need some third party software to convert PDFs to GP files…. sorry i have not tried
-
How does it work? Do you physically annotate in the PDF or does a mic pickup what you are playing and convert it to Tab?
-
@ChuckS you have to annotate. I do it by tab. It’s actually pretty easy and I find it incredibly helpful. Here is a little rundown of the software, although there are other tutorials out there:
-
-
Here is a YT video describing the process. He confirms that there is no automated way to convert notation to tab.
-
@JeffM.22 — thanks for the confirmation! (I mean, it’s a bummer…but I really appreciate knowing that it’s not possible).
The GP files are fairly quick to create though, so I guess it’s no biggie.
-
Thanks much for the insights – I watched both videos – this is pretty cool stuff. I think I may have to bit the bullet and check it out. Could come in handy learning new stuff or when you see a song lesson on YT and they show the tab inserted into the video, but there is no real way to capture it.
Cool!
-
-
Log in to reply.