Guitar Pro Explained
If you're looking for a great way to notate guitar music - whether it be music of your own or transcriptions of your favorite artists - Guitar Pro is a great choice with lots of useful features. Notation software can have a significant learning curve, however, and that's where this Guitar Pro course comes in. Veteran Groove3 instructor Gary Hiebner will get you up to speed quickly on Guitar Pro with these in-depth videos, and you'll be creating beautiful, professional-looking sheet music before you know it. These Guitar Pro videos are for new Guitar Pro users.
Videos
• Introduction (03:19) - Gary starts off with an introduction to what will be covered in this video series and shows you around the home page and the different tabs.
• Creating a New File & Adding an Instrument (03:52) - This video takes a look at how to create your first new file and add an instrument to your guitar tab. We start off by adding an electric guitar instrument.
• Inputting Note Data (05:08) - Discover how to input your guitar fret note data on the tablature lines, first with singles notes and then with chords.
• Changing Note Lengths & Rhythms (04:44) - Learn how to change the note lengths and rhythm in your score and also how to change the dynamics and accidentals of a note.
• Adding Other Instruments (04:44) - In this video, Gary shows how to add a bass guitar track that can accompany the electric guitar.
• Different Articulations Pt. 1 (06:11) - Now we start exploring the different articulations you can use to add more details to your guitar tab parts. For example, you can add palm muting, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, harmonics, and vibrato.
• Different Articulations Pt. 2 (09:30) - Continuing from the previous video, we look at accented notes, using the bend Tool, using trills, using different brushstrokes, tapping notes, arpeggiated notes, mutes, and dead notes.
• Using the Design Mode (02:59) - Explore the Design Mode next, which you can use to neaten and tidy up how your bars and lines are displayed in the guitar tab. By adding and removing, you can decide how many bars you want to show. Plus, you can manually move the bar lines around.
• Working with RSE Soundbanks (08:17) - Here we go over the RSE Soundbanks and see how you can browse through them to select different types of guitar tones. You'll also learn how you can add and change the effects chain on each RSE bank.
• Adding Chords & Chord Diagrams (07:01) - Discover how to use the Chord Library and its Chord Diagram Library assistant tool to detect and notate the chords in the song. The chords are displayed at the beginning of the song, and you can choose where to place each chord name in the tablature.
• Add Song Titles & Style Sheets (09:15) - Now we take a look at how to add different text fields to your guitar tab format. Plus, we learn how to go into the Style Sheets to further customize how your guitar tabs look.
• Adding Drums (09:35) - See how to add a drum track and tab out the drum parts. Gary looks at the Drum Map and then tabs out a drum part to accompany the guitars and bass.
• Using as a Practice Tool (06:49) - Explore the Relative Speed and Transpose functions and see how you can use these as practice tools when learns riffs and songs.
• Using the Transpose Tool (02:18) - Learn how to use the Transpose tool to change keys in a song. You can either transpose one track or all tracks by selection or the whole score.
• Using the Focus Tool (02:17) - In this video, Gary shows you how to use the Focus tool, which allows you to select a track and then decide how much focus is placed on this track - i.e., how much to increase the level of the track while reducing the others. This comes in very handy if you want to hear a specific track more than the others.
• Adding Lyrics (07:28) - Explore how to add lyrics to your tabs and edit/format the lyrics so they sit correctly in the tab.
• Automating Effects (04:04) - Discover how you can several parameters and how to enable and disable the automation that was created.
• Adding Audio Tracks (10:06) - Learn how you can add an audio track to your song and use it as a reference while playing and transcribing your track parts. Gary also shows you how to edit the tempo with the sync points so that it finds the correct transients in the audio.
• Changing Guitar Tunings (06:04) - Here we take a look at how to customize the tunings used in the files. For each track, you can either choose from the tuning list or you can go into each track and customize each string, which can be reflected in the tab.
• Using Other Types of Instruments (03:52) - Guitar Pro also has a selection of other types of instrument tracks you can add. Gary explores these and demonstrates how you can add other types of instrument tracks to your file and how they are viewed.
• Exporting Tabs (07:14) - Finally, explore the different options you have when exporting out your guitar pro songs. These include GPX, GP5, PDF, PNG, and audio files.