Advantages of Guitar Pro

Editing

Create a file, an instrument track
The brand new Guitar Pro Start screen and Recent Files panel allows you to quickly access your recent files, sheet music templates, and the examples created by pro musicians at Arobas Music. Use the new track-creation wizard to start composing and choosing the instrument you wish to edit, with the notation style, the tuning, and sound to apply.

Playing

Open and play a file
Discover the tool bar located at the top of your software window, to select and customize how your sheet music will show and play, choose which secondary menus to display, and use the various Guitar Pro playing and learning tools. Two removable side panels have been created for editing and fine-tuning the sounds of your tracks.

Connect Your Guitar

By use of an external sound card, connect your guitar to the software
Plug your guitar into an external sound card connected to Guitar Pro and enjoy the effects and amp models as they are being used in the Guitar-Pro track of your choice. If the file is multi-track, why not have a blast playing the guitar solo while letting the software play the bass and drum tracks along.

Compose

All tracks now welcome tablature, as well as new notation elements
The tablature option is back to all tracks — be it drums, piano, or voice. Merely click on the notation type of your choosing, for any instrument. New elements (Pick Scrape, Dead Slap, Golpe) have been added to notation, the writing of bends has been enhanced, and many collision issues have been resolved.

Export and Share

Lock your files and export them to MP3
Many users have been wishing to be able to protect their sheet music when they share it with other musicians or sell it away. You may now use either of two ways to protect your files with a password: the editing lock and the file-opening lock options. MP3, FLAC and Ogg audio formats have also been added to your choices of export formats.

 

Tablature and score reader

Guitar Pro offers many reading features: 3 types of notation (standard/tablature/slash), zoom and virtual fretboard/keyboard to visualize the exact positioning of your fingers on them.

 

 

Edit your compositions

Create your own professional scores for one or several instruments and capture your notes quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument.

 

 

Mix your sounds

The sound engine offers more than 1000 sounds (presets) using 200 soundbanks and 80 effects/amps modeling recorded in studio. Select your sounds among our built-in sounds or create your own presets.

 

 

Improve your technique

Enjoy a series of tools to optimize your practice sessions: tempo, looper, metronome, chord and scale library, guitar and piano fretboard. You can also edit or buy full scores files and then be able to solo or mute individual parts.

 

 

Thousand of tabs online

The Guitar Pro file format is the most widespread when it comes to look for tabs online. Download songs online or access to 2000 high quality full instruments tabs made by our team on mySongBook.

 

 

Share your music

Print your tabs, read it on your Guitar Pro appfor smartphone or tablet, or export it in various formats like PDF, audio, image, MusicXML, MIDI...

 

Features

1 READ MUSIC SCORES AND TABS

Guitar Pro is a powerful score player really helpful to learn how to play, improve your technique, reproduce your favorite songs or accompany yourself.

 

Write

 

 

Guitar Pro allows you to compose and read music scores using the musical notation of your favorite instrument. Display the tablature notation to learn guitar riffs or use the standard notation to read music score for piano, drums, brass and strings. Rediscover also the Slash notation to sight-read easily rhythmic patterns from chord charts.

 

Play

 

 

Hit play and the tab automatically scrolls on. A highlighted cursor lets you know which note is being played and the sound engine reproduces all of the effects specific to the guitar: pickstroking and fingerpicking, bend, slide and ghost notes. You can also adjust tempo or use the speed trainer to loop a section of the score while inscreasing the bpm (beat per minute).

 

Mix

 

 

Drive your Guitar Pro files with the instrument's global view available below the sheet music. It allows you to have a synthetic view of the instrument tracks and thus to easily move around it. You can define various sections in a score, such as intro, verse, or chorus. Audio mixing features are included in this overview. You can mute one or several tracks, and choose to show or hide them. Simply solo/mute the tracks you want as if you were playing along with your band.

 

2 MUSIC SCORE EDITION

Express your talent by creating your own scores in a matter of minutes. You can edit the notes directly on the standard score or on the tablature. All the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments are available. The notes capture can be made quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument. 

 

Customize your score

Based on the classic or jazz styles, you can set 70 different parameters, configure the layout of your scores exactly as you wish, and get professional-level paper printouts.

 

Create multitrack scores

The multitrack edition allows you to create music scores with dozens of instruments: guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, strings, brass and many more.

 

 

Notation elements

Guitar Pro allows you to add to your score all of the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments.

Bar and sheet music organization

Key, key signature and rhythm rendition for your sheet music. Bar repetition, repeat bar, da coda, da segno, return to the line and section name (verse, chorus, bridge…) for your bars.

 

Music notation

Note value (from whole note to sixty-fourth note), triolets, n-tuplets, rest, dynamics, accents, tied note, accidental, fingering for left and right hand, up and down pick strokes, barre chords, stems and ligatures. You can also add comments to the score, lyrics and chord diagrams.

 

Playing effects

Let ring, palm mute, natural and artificial harmonic, bends, tremolo bar, vibratos, slides, hammer on, pull off, tapping, slapping, hoping, brushes, rasguedo, grace note, trill, tremolos, crescendo/decrescendo and fade in/fade out

 

 

 

3 TOOLS FOR COMPOSING MUSIC

 

Chords

Ask any chord and Guitar Pro will display all possible positions on the fretboard. Draw a diagram by clicking on the chord grid and see all matching names.

 

 

Scales

View and listen many scales from the most common to the most exotic ones. The selected scale can be displayed on the fretboard or piano to help you compose your song, write a solo or melody line.

 

 

Lyrics

Easily enter the lyrics of your songs and arrange them at bottom of your vocal track. You can also add annotations to point riffs or solos out that might need some extra explanation for being played properly.

  

 

Polyphonic tuner

The polyphonic tuner allows you to tune your guitar by plugging it into your sound card or via a microphone. Just one brush-down stroke allows you to check the tuning of all six strings at once.

 

 

 

 

Virtual instruments

Virtual instruments let you view and enter musical notes from a graphical representation of your instrument. It can display notes of the current time, the notes of the current bar or of the selected scale. Intuitive and easy to use, it is an ideal tool for beginners or tablature notation fans.

 

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Bass

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Keyboard

Drums

 

 

PRINT AND SHARE YOUR FILES

.gpx Guitar Pro Import/Export

Import your .gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5 and .gpx files. Export them with Guitar Pro in .gp and .gpx format.

.ptb PowerTab/TablEdit Import

Guitar Pro allows you to import files from others tablature editor softwares.

.midi MIDI Import/Export

Import and export your files in MIDI format for further processing in a sequencer.

.ascii ASCII Import/Export

Import and export your files in ASCII. The ASCII format — or simple text file — was the first format used for the sharing of tablatures.

.musicxml MusicXML Import/Export

MusicXML is a digital sheet music interchange and distribution format used by a wide range of music notation softwares.

.audio MP3, WAV, FLAC and Ogg Export

You can convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file for you to create your own backing tracks.

.pdf PDF Export

The PDF format is a standard when you wish to print or share your music scores with musicians.

.png PNG Export

Exporting into PNG (image) will let you save your tablatures as big-sized pictures. Those pictures can for instance be integrated into a webpage for wider diffusion.

LOCK Lock/Unlock a file

It is possible to lock your files with a password in order to protect and share them. You can block a file from being opened, or modified.