Guitar Pro is a fantastic bit of software, that allows you to edit and playback tabs as MIDI files. It offers lots of tools that make learning songs faster, and is also good for tabbing out your own songs. You can obtain a free 15 day trial from
Here, or if you want to purchase it, click on the box that appears when you hold your mouse over the words Guitar Pro, anywhere on the forum.
This is a basic, beginners tutorial on using Guitar Pro.
This is the main view you will find when you start Guitar Pro.
There are 4 main features here, from top to bottom
- Top Toolbar
- Tab Editor
- Track/Mix Table
- Bottom Toolbar
One of the most important features is the

button.
You'll find it on most of the windows listed below. Clicking on this will open up the Help File for the open window.
Use the links below to jump to whichever section you want to look at....
Contents
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Toolbars
Editing Tab
Chord Window
Play Looped/Speed Trainer Window
Bend Window
Instruments Window
Track Properties Window
Track/Mix Table
If anyone has any questions, comments, death-threats, or hate mail for me, theres a discussion thread
here.