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Old February 6th, 2007
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*Note* These read from left to right in the image, and top to bottom in the text *

1. New Document – Opens a new, blank GP file
2. Open – Opens an existing GP file
3. Save – Save current file

4. Score Properties (General Info, song name, artist etc)
5. Page Setup
6. Print

7. Undo/Redo, last actions

8. Add a bar At the cursor
9. Cut
10. Copy
11. Paste

12. Track properties – Tuning Etc
13. Add track
14. Delete track

15. Instrument Window
16. General Preferences

17. Multitrack View – Views all tracks at once,
18. Page Mode – Breaks pages up as if it were a Word Document
19. Parchment Mode – Continuous page
20. Vertical Screen Mode – Pages align vertically
21. Horizontal Screen Mode – Pages align horizontally
22. Zoom

23. Percussion window – Opens the drum tab dialog
24. Fretboard View
25. Keyboard View
26. Next/Prev Track view



1. Key Signature – Modify the key signature of the track
2. Time Signature – Modify the time signature of the track.
3. Triplet Feel
4. Repeat Open
5. Alternate Endings
6. Repeat Close – Will open a dialog box asking number of repeats. Use this to repeat a section of a song.

7. Double Bar
8. Musical Directions – Coda’s etc

9. Force Break Line
10. Prevent Break Line

11. Insert Marker – Insert a text note in the tab “verse” for eg
12. Marker List
13. Previous Marker
14. Go to marker
15. Next Marker

16. RSE – Toggle the Realistic Sound Engine on or off

17. Play/Stop, First/Last Bar

18. Step Forward/backwards – Play though the tab note by note

19. Play Looped/Speed Trainer – Use this dialog to slow the track down, or loop the selected portion of the tab.

20. Metronome
21. Countdown timer
22. Tempo/Tempo Co-efficient
23. Transpose (Up and Down) – Modify note



Note Durations – Specify the duration of the selected notes. From whole to 64th

Dotted Note

Triplets etc

Rest – Will place a rest. Duration is set by the Note Duration

Tie Note/Sound Duration

8va 8vb/15ma 15mb - I Think this means its played an octave higher/lower than its written.

Edit Voices (Lead/Bass)

Automatic Beams/Force Beams/Break Beams/Break Secondary Beams
Automatic Beam Direction/Invert Beam Direction

Ppp, pp, p etc – Essentially the volume. How hard you pick the string (as best as I can figure out anyway)



Dead Note
Grace Note
Ghost Note
Accentuated Note
Heavy Accentuated Note
Let Ring
Natural Harmonic
Artificial Harmonic

Hammer on/Pull off
Bend – Opens the bend dialog,
Trem
Legato Slide
Shift Slide
Slide Options (in from below, in from above etc)
Vibrato
Wide Vibrato

Trill
Trem Picking
Palm Mute
Staccato
Tap
Slap
Pop
Volume Swell
Whammy

Open the Chord Window
Insert Text
Open the Mix table

Left and Right hand fingering

Up and down strum

Up and down picking


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