Guitar Pro 5

Guitar Pro 5 Most guitarists are familiar with tablature, but less are aware that there are programms that will actually play the tablature to you for you to follow. The only things that guitar tablature lacks compared with actual sheet music is a lack of timing instuction. Guitar pro allows you to play back the tablature and allows you to hear the exact timing of the song. A great place to find guitar pro files is on www.ultimateguitar.com, where they have lots of different artists and songs. One problem with this is that the guitar pro files are created by individuals, which means occansionally they are incorrect which is frustrating. You can ...  Read the complete review

For all would-be guitarists and song writers, this is an essential piece of software. It is specialised for guitarists, but is suitable for musicians of all backgrounds and instruments. It is a multi track tabulature (and notation) editor for mainly guitars, but many other instruemnts are available. A wide variety from trumpets to synth leads to pianos and to string ensembles are available. Its main purpose is to create MIDI sound files, making it ideal for song writing and getting musical ideas into real sound. Using its interface, various tracks and instruments can be incorperated, and using either guitar tabulature or notation songs can be created and ...  Read the complete review

Learning to play the guitar? don't be without this program. Guitar Pro 5 is a powerful tablature editor (Tablature is another way of reading how to play the guitar, replacing the traditional way, using notes, with which finger and which string and where) here's an example. |-------------15----14----|-------------15----14-----| |----15-------------------|----15--------------------| |-------14-12----14----14-|-------14-12----14----14--| |-12----------------------|-12-----------------------| |-------------------------|--------------------------| |-------------------------|--------------------------| Back to the review, the ...  Read the complete review

Guitar pro is the must have software for any guitar player. This software is extremely useful and has hundreds of helpful objects in it. Basically, it shows guitar tabbed songs. But along with this it can also play the music along to a real sound engine, which is pretty accurate to real life, you can speed up and slow down the tempo of the music so you can practice slow and build up to playing at normal speed. Being able to play the track is really handy because you get to see HOW things are played as well. There are thousands of tabs made online for guitar pro, and about 70% are pretty good, it takes some getting used to if you want to compose a ...  Read the complete review

Guitar Pro 5 software review... A great many guitarists prefer to use tablature to classical notation nowadays, and who can blame them. While classical notation is perfect for piano players etc who have only one place on their instrument to play a note - classical notation makes a lot of sense. However as every guitarist (this also goes for bass players and most stringed instruments) knows; there are multiple ways of playing the same note. (For e.g. on a guitar low A can be played on the 5th string open, or at 5th fret of the 6th string -so classical notation requires extra notation to denote which fret is intended -otherwise it can be ...  Read the complete review