Rig Guitar

[Bartley Trowbridge]

Easily edit 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.

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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.

Spark Amp users can now unleash the full potential of the innovative smart amplifier with the Spark Control Wireless Footswitch. This Bluetooth foot controller pairs instantly with the Spark app to switch between tones, control effects and more using the tap of your toe. This cutting-edge accessory provides guitarists an unparalleled level of command over their sound.

The Spark Control Wireless Footswitch features Bluetooth connectivity to link with the Spark app and amp in seconds. Once paired, you can switch between the four pre-programmed scenarios or create and save custom scenarios to manipulate effects and amp functions with your feet while playing. This allows for a seamless live performance experience without distraction.

With a built-in rechargeable battery designed to last over four months on a single charge with average use, the Spark Control Wireless Footswitch ensures you'll never miss a beat. Play for hours on end during practice or live shows without worrying about loss of connection or needing to recharge. The battery recharges via an included USB cable for convenience.

With four pre-programmed customizable scenarios, and the ability to save four of your own custom scenarios, the Spark Control Wireless Footswitch provides an easy way to unlock your full creative potential. Save combinations of effects and amp settings that inspire you, then call them up at the tap of your toe. This level of control and customization is perfect for songwriting, experimenting with new sounds and crafting your signature tone.

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A guitar pick may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant hollow chamber on the guitar, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier.

The guitar is classified as a chordophone, meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood, with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States,[1] but nylon and steel strings became mainstream only following World War II.[1] The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument.

There are three main types of modern guitar: the classical guitar (Spanish guitar); the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar; and the Hawaiian guitar (played across the player's lap). Traditional acoustic guitars include the flat top guitar (typically with a large sound hole) or the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a "jazz guitar". The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings' vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber. The classical Spanish guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerstyle technique where each string is plucked individually by the player's fingers, as opposed to being strummed. The term "finger-picking" can also refer to a specific tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass, and country guitar playing in the United States.

Electric guitars, first patented in 1937,[2] use a pickup and amplifier that made the instrument loud enough to be heard, but also enabled manufacturing guitars with a solid block of wood needing a resonant chamber.[3] A wide array of electronic effects units became possible including reverb and distortion (or "overdrive"). Solid-body guitars began to dominate the guitar market during the 1960s and 1970s; they are less prone to unwanted acoustic feedback. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of electric guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars (used in jazz guitar, blues and rockabilly) and solid-body guitars, which are widely used in rock music.

The loud, amplified sound and sonic power of the electric guitar played through a guitar amp have played a key role in the development of blues and rock music, both as an accompaniment instrument (playing riffs and chords) and performing guitar solos, and in many rock subgenres, notably heavy metal music and punk rock. The electric guitar has had a major influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, ska, mariachi, metal, punk, funk, reggae, rock, grunge, soul, acoustic music, disco, new wave, new age, adult contemporary music, and pop, occasionally used as a sample in hip-hop, dubstep, or trap music.

The origins of the modern guitar are not known.[8] Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides."[9] The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas.[10] A 3,300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard playing a stringed instrument is the oldest iconographic representation of a chordophone, and clay plaques from Babylonia show people playing a lute-like instrument which is similar to the guitar.

Several scholars cite varying influences as antecedents to the modern guitar. Although the development of the earliest "guitar" is lost to the history of medieval Spain, two instruments are commonly claimed as influential predecessors: the four-string oud and its precursor, the European lute; the former was brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 8th century. It has often been assumed that the guitar is a development of the lute, or of the ancient Greek kithara. However, many scholars consider the lute an offshoot or separate line of development which did not influence the evolution of the guitar in any significant way.[9][11][12]

At least two instruments called "guitars" were in use in Spain by 1200: the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) and the so-called guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar). The guitarra morisca had a rounded back, a wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The guitarra Latina had a single sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers "moresca" or "morisca" and "latina" had been dropped, and these two chordophones were simply referred to as guitars.[13]

The Spanish vihuela, called in Italian the viola da mano, a guitar-like instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries, is widely considered to have been the single most important influence in the development of the baroque guitar. It had six courses (usually), lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist. It was also larger than the contemporary four-course guitars. By the 16th century, the vihuela's construction had more in common with the modern guitar, with its curved one-piece ribs, than with the viols, and more like a larger version of the contemporary four-course guitars. The vihuela enjoyed only a relatively short period of popularity in Spain and Italy during an era dominated elsewhere in Europe by the lute; the last surviving published music for the instrument appeared in 1576.[14]

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