Guitar Professional

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Easilyedit tablatures and scores for guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, percussion, and many other instruments.

Make faster progress with the many integrated tools:

a metronome, chord and scale libraries, a tuner

and virtual instruments.

Adjust and gradually increase the tempo, loop sections, create drum and piano backing tracks to practice.

Enjoy realistic audio rendering and preset sounds that faithfully reproduce the sound of your favorite artists.

Thanks to your generous feedback, we have developed the best version of Guitar Pro to date.

This new version of Guitar Pro offers many improvements and new features to users. This time, we have made our best to offer you a better product without changing the user experience.

Discover our new features: add an audio track to your scores, use the visual metronome, customize your tabs easily, display scale diagrams on your tabs, edit tabs faster and many more...

Download songs online or access to thousands of high-quality full instruments tabs made by our team on mySongBook. You can shop for music scores by the unit or with our full access subscription that allows you to collect files from the entire library.

Guitar Pro is a software program available on Windows and Mac OS that allows all musicians to read, write and share their tablatures. The world leader in tablature editing, Guitar Pro has been downloaded over 15 million times worldwide since 1997.

The software is compatible with many instruments such as guitar, drums, bass, piano, ukulele and many others! You can make tablatures for each instrument, scroll the music score, write your music and use many pedagogical tools such as a chord dictionary or a scale library. Transposition features are also available to easily transcribe your songs from one instrument to another.

Whether you're a music teacher, a transcriber, a composer, a songwriter, a tablature book editor, a solo musician or in a band, Guitar Pro adapts to all your needs, and saves you precious time in making progress on the guitar or any other instrument.

The Guitar Pro software suite is also available as a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android. You can thus use your tablature player or your tabbing application on all your devices: computer, tablet or smartphone.

I'm a guitar player who loves to create new soundscapes and textures. Although I own a few guitar pedals and really enjoy Amplitube, Guitar Rig, and Bias. I've been wanting to work with different instruments all together such as Arturia Synths, Native Instruments Kontakt, and Addictive Keys. These instruments work best with a MIDI keyboard controller but again, I prefer guitar.

MIDI guitar has always been a curiosity of mine. I'd love to own a Parker MIDI Fly but they're pricey. Artiphon just released a guitar-looking controller but it doesn't use real strings. Jamstik is a controller with real strings but I was hoping to find a software solution.

The problem with MIDI Guitar 2 is that they only offer a stand-alone app, a VST plug-in and Audio Unit component. No AAX support. So while MIDI Guitar 2 can work on Logic, Cakewalk, and Cubase, it doesn't work on Pro Tools.

Next open up MIDI Guitar 2 and select "Audio Interface". Make sure you select the interface you are using for Input. Your output may vary but I plan to listen to my guitar through studio monitors so I'll choose the Digi 003.

This question pops up a lot with professional guitarists. In this article, I want to focus on what I think is the most important skill any professional guitarist needs and answer based on my personal experience and the accumulated experience of many others session players I consider my idols.

After many recording sessions, good and bad, and after following some of the session greats like Tom Bukovac and Tim Pierce, I created an opinion on what would be the one thing that separates the boys from the men in the session guitarist world.

The concept of fretboard knowledge has been somehow mixed up a lot during recent years from the many available online tutorials giving different answers to the same question. And actually, none of the answers is wrong; the difference lies in the goal you want to achieve.

For some people, fretboard knowledge is knowing your chords, scales, and probably your Modes. Some players, like myself, base fretboard knowledge a lot on knowing triads and the CAGED system. All the ways are right, and the method you choose does not dictate your proficiency.

If you are asked to play lead over that very tricky progression, the only thing that will save you is a combination of your ears and how well you know the triads of the chords in all positions of the neck.

A professional guitar setup is a process which includes an inspection, adjustments, and basic guitar maintenance. The difference in a professional setup and a DIY setup is significant. A truly professional setup requires specialized tools and a good understanding of the mechanics of a stringed instrument.

It is very important to know what every part does, how they relate to one another, and specifications. This is especially true when your setup involves adjusting a truss rod, troubleshooting specific issues, and doing guitar repairs.

Can you work on your guitar? It really comes down to your level of technical understanding, your mechanical aptitude, and your ability to pay for your inevitable mistakes. Anyone who is good at doing something will tell you they made a lot of mistakes while learning. Becoming proficient at guitar tech work takes a lot of time spent studying, and countless hours of hands-on practice.

What about watching YouTube videos? YouTube can be very good and also be very bad. Anybody can make a video meaning your odds of getting bad information are quite high. If you watch DIY guitar setup videos look for professionals with a legit work space and that use professional guitar setup tools. Find a person that instructs (not just making a rambling video), and that offers specific, detailed information. We recommend videos by Premier Guitar, Crimson Guitars, StewMac and any official guitar manufacturer (Fender, Taylor, Gibsin, etc.) Keep in mind that you cannot acquire years of knowledge in a few 10 minute videos.

The price for a professional guitar setup or bass setup can range from $45 to $300. The reason for the difference has to do with the scope-of-work and the cost of doing business. For example, to make a living, a guitar shop in pricey Boston needs to charge more than a guitar shop in remote New Mexico.

A traditional setup is a manual process which typically costs $40 to $85, sometimes up to $125, plus strings and any necessary reapirs. At a minimum the scope-of-work should include an overall inspection, new strings, tuning, intonation and detailing. It often includes adjusting truss rod (neck), pickup heights/angles, string action, string radius, saddle heights, bridge angle (floating trems), and tightening loose jacks, knobs, tuners, etc. You should ask about the tuning process and try to find a shop that uses a rack mounted digital strobe tuner.

There is somewhat of a standard task list for a guitar setup. Depending on the particular guitar or bass some things may not need to be adjusted. Sometimes things need a lot of adjustment. In particular, guitars that are poorly maintained (rarely professionally serviced) often need more work than a well maintained guitar. The following is a quick view of the main parts of a guitar setup.

The first thing most shops will do is give your guitar a visual and mechanical check to identify problems. This could be as simple as noticing missing screws, corrosion, body damage, hardware malfunctions, or neck problems. A setup should include checks to confirm controls, pickups, jack and other items all work properly.

The best guitar techs make written notes on these issues as they do your setup. These notes are especially useful as a reference on subsequent setups when items previously noted as potential issues have become real problems.

The primary purpose of adjusting the truss rod is to maintain an ideal string action. Proper adjustment gives you the lowest possible string action without fret buzz. Ideally your neck will be relatively straight with just a slight amount of relief. Your guitar tech can use any of several ways to assess or measure relief when doing your setup. Before the work is done you should let your guitar tech know if you have and personal preferences on string action, i.e., higher or lower.

If you have a guitar with a floating bridge and tremolo it may require some adjustment as part of your setup. The tension on the bridge must be balanced to hold the bridge in a position that is parallell with the body.

The string tension is what it is, so the adjustment is done in the trem cavity. Sometimes moving the claw springs in or out can achieve balance. Some times you may need to add or remove trem springs, or even change to new trem springs with more or less tension strength.

The fretboard on your guitar or bass may look flat but it actually has a slight crown which curves down to each side. In order to have proper playability the overall radius of your strings should closely match the fretboard radius. Adjusting the radius is done via saddle heights and measured with tools made specifically for this task.

If you prefer it higher or lower you need to ask for this before the work is done. This is because changing the string action also changes the intonation and you would otherwise cause the shop to have to redo their work.

Higher String Action requires you to be more deliberate and press down harder to fret notes. It can enhance slower playing styles where you want notes to ring longer. With higher string action you have the least chance of fret buzz.

The distance relationship between the strings and the poles of a pickup have a noticeable affect on tone. When pickups are closer they pick up more sound vibrations, and inversely pick up less if they are too low. Pickup heights are set after the stricng action has been established.

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