Writing tabs

micklen · #1 March 14th, 2006

Not sure if this is in the right place

But how do you go about writing tabs of your own interpretation of melodies

Are there programmes

Is it just a question of writing out each note

How's it done

Mick

nocat · #2 March 14th, 2006

I did a little research and found this program... It looks like it would do the job...!!!
The alternative, I guess, would be to draw and write every thing out by hand...

http://www.musedit.com/

nowhere-man · #3 March 14th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by nocat

I did a little research and found this program... It looks like it would do the job...!!!
The alternative, I guess, would be to draw and write every thing out by hand...

http://www.musedit.com/

I use GuitarPro for reading and playing tabs, but it seems to have all the tools for creating them too. I haven't gone into that side of it yet.

http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php

Clancy · #4 March 14th, 2006

micklen,

Kirk uses GuitarPro to make the TAB for the lessons here and he also attaches a GuitarPro file to most of those lessons. It's a great little program and pretty inexpensive considering what it can do. You can read about it and download the demo from here - http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php

Cheers

Clancy

Bob Wolford · #5 March 14th, 2006

I use TablEdit. If you want to do it right, you need to write out each note of your arrangement. For repetive sections you can copy and paste, but you still have to tweak to get it just right.You can take midi files and other tab formates and convert them to TablEdit, but you still have to edit each measure to work for you. I have yet to find a program that will take wave files and vconvert them to tab. That's my personal take on the subject. IMHO
Bob
http://bobwolford.com/

nagukush · #6 March 14th, 2006

Hi Guess Guitar Pro is good

-kush

bluesguy · #7 March 14th, 2006

I use Powertab myself. You can find it at http://www.power-tab.net/

micklen · #8 March 14th, 2006

I have got Guitar Pro and have had a bit of a play with it

I have discovered what I need

A bit more knowledge

It'a ALMOST foolproof but you need to mebbe know a bit more about music than I do at the moment

I may be able to get a tab out of it though

I will have a look at the other recommendations when I get a chance

Thanks

Mick

Jean · #9 March 14th, 2006

Goodluck with your tabing!

powe6563 · #10 March 29th, 2006

So does anyone know of a way to get the licks you record on your computer to import into tabedit or any other tab writing programs? Tabedit has an import midi option but I record using audacity and it wont let me record or save to a midi format. Any Ideas?

Bob Wolford · #11 March 29th, 2006

unless you have a midi guitar, there is no way to record to midi that I know of. Even midi guitars have to be tweaked quite a bit for the tab to look good. Midi Keyboards are about the only decent way to go from actual playing to a midi formate.
I would love to have someone tell me I'm wrong, because I would
jump right on such a program !!

powe6563 · #12 March 29th, 2006

What about a Coversion program to convert wav or mp3 files to midi files? This might sound obsurd, but I'm a moron when it comes to midi.

Bob Wolford · #13 March 30th, 2006

Wave files are actual sound, like you get from an old lp record. Mp3 files are a close second to actual sound files. For this discussion wave and mp3's are actual sound. On the other hand midi files are a series of computer commands that give an impression of music but are not music at all. Midi commands tell you what instument to sound like, what pitch to make, the duration of the pitch, the volume of the pitch, the speed of the pitch, etc. When all of these commands are put together they give use something that sounds like music.

Actual sound and midi arn't even like apples and oranges because those are both fruits. They are more like apples and baseballs.

powe6563 · #14 March 30th, 2006

Thanks bob! I guess I'll have to use tabedit the hard way. I wouldn't mind but I can't get the timming right on the strum patterns.

Bob Wolford · #15 March 30th, 2006

While sitting in front of your computer, with your guitar in hand, try slowing the tab down, tapping your foot as you play slowly and experiment with the TablEdit program. Does the strum or note fall on the beat or before the beat, etc?

I have found that as you use the program you not only get better at it, but you learn a lot about music notation without even trying.