Converting guitar tabs into scores. Is there a programme that can help?

[darkladykleio]

Is there a programme that converts guitar tabs from text format into scores (for classically trained musicians who don't play the guitar)?

 

[-Gavin-]

Yeah, use Sibelius


It's fantastic, i wrote my Advanced music class composition on it, it rocks

 

[FauxPerspicacity]

yeah Sibelius woo

 

[AmirH]

Uh.. I was gonna suggest Finale, but that would be manually notating it.

 

[Needlefeast]

One program that helped me learn from tablature to notation (backwards from your problem but still might help) was http://www.powertabs.net the site has the editor for download and thousands of songs that people have tabbed out.

In the program you input the tab and it automatically notates it for you, while you have to manually piece together the rhythm. My biggest problem with this program is sometimes notes are spelled enharmonically different than I would choose them and I do not know how to change them. Aside from that I think its the best tab-related resource out there.

Hope it helps and Good Luck
Needle

 

[sumairetsu]

My biggest problem with this program is sometimes notes are spelled enharmonically different than I would choose them and I do not know how to change them.

Huh? What did you just say?

 

[serenesorrow]

I think he means the notation will display something like F# when he would rather it say Gb. Or something like that

 

[Needlefeast]

I think he means the notation will display something like F# when he would rather it say Gb. Or something like that

Yep, that's exactly it. (helps fit songs more apropriately into their respective key)

 

[sumairetsu]

Learning transposition will work wonders.

Musicians Theory of Relativity: E = Fb

 

[darkladykleio]

How am I gonna do it using Finale 2000? A friend of mine has that programme and we tried to do it, but we don't know how to insert the tabs, which are text documents, to convert them. I don't mind typing them again in a new Finale file, but I don't know how to create a tab with that programme either.

I tried http://www.powertabs.net too, but I get some really weird tabs with questionmarks and strange symbols.

 

[Ayeka]

I tried http://www.powertabs.net too, but I get some really weird tabs with questionmarks and strange symbols.

I've never known that before what kind of strange symbols? Is this from trying to enter your own tablature?

(Power Tab is great for me trying to learn already tabbed songs but I'm useless trying to put my own stuff into it basic rhythms are ok but anything more than that and I end up 12/42 of a beat over a bar or something and I can never seem to get the right speed on the click track...)

 

[sumairetsu]

Your browser may not be able to translate some of the characters that it's reading when you load it up. May want to check your settings.

 

[darkladykleio]

Can't change any settings. I'm usinng a pc of my educational institution to get connected...
Any help with Finale?

 

[Melodeath]

You want a text file to be converted to musical notation?

 

[IrfaanSE801]

I would also recommend that G7 program. Works great

 

[darkladykleio]

You want a text file to be converted to musical notation?

Yes!