convert notes to guitar tabs easly

• Mar 8, 2018 - 06:42

Hi
i would like to convert notes to guitar tab easly

thanks

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• Mar 8, 2018 - 06:48

Easily? You should clarify what you mean, by giving a specific example (examples). What are you trying to do exactly, which causes difficulties to you?
Attach your actual score will certainly help to better advise you.

NB: have you tried the Template: Guitar + Tablature?

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• Mar 8, 2018 - 07:08

Again, please, give a precise example of one or more difficulties (and attach a file, or an excerpt via File -> Save selection).
There is a learning curve of course, but I am pretty sure it will be easily for you after some advice.

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• Mar 8, 2018 - 17:01

The basic procedure is extremely simple:

1) add a tab staff
2) copy the original music
3) paste onto the tab staff

If the music is already for guitar, it's even easier - just add a linked tab staff, no need for copy and paste.

Either way it takes only seconds. The only issue is that the results might not be easy to play - you'll probably need to spend time changing string assignments, simplifying things to make it playable on guitar at all, etc.

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• Mar 22, 2018 - 19:37

hi
1)
to add a tab staf , i click on I to open the the instrument window and add for example electric guitar tab
https://i.imgur.com/5qCn5FQ.png

2) i have to select all the note keeping shift + left key to select all , copy and paste in the tab
https://i.imgur.com/34jkvGi.png

is that the more easy way?

and just another question , to switch between the tabs in the screenshot and keeping playing , is there a way?
when i select another tab (in the screenshot i add the green arrows to indicate the tabs maybe it's not the right word) , musescore stop to play , i select the second tab , play and musescore start to play from the beginning
in short is there a way to keep playing while i switch around the tabs without stops and re-start to play from the beginning
sorry for my poor english
https://i.imgur.com/isilTIj.png
thanks you much

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• Mar 22, 2018 - 20:10

If you are trying to take music originally written for another instrtument like piano and convert it to music for guitar, tablature isn't your main problem - it is how to reduce everything on two staves to one, make it fit the range of the instrument, make it playable given the physical constraints of the instrument, etc. Converting from standard notation to tab is trivially easy in comparison! Once you've done the hard work of converting the piano music to guitar music, all you need to do to convert to tab is change the staff type (press "I", change the type using the dropdown).

Sorry, but I don't understand the second question about switching tabs. Do you mean, can you have one score playing while viewing another? Not that I am aware of. You could export the audio of one score to MP3 and then play it in another program if you like.

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• Mar 23, 2018 - 07:11

If you are trying to take music originally written for another instrtument like piano and convert it to music for guitar, tablature isn't your main problem
and Once you've done the hard work of converting the piano music to guitar music, all you need to do to convert to tab is change the staff type
hi sorry i don't understand it
1) in short if i want to convert music written for another instruments what should i do it?
you said i need to reduce all to 1 stave
how can i reduce 2 or 3 staves to 1?
2) after i have reduced all the staves to 1 , i need to press I and add a instrument (eletric tabor acoustic guitar tab)
3) select all the stave with notes , copy and paste in the tabs
are my steps right?

Sorry, but I don't understand the second question about switching tabs. Do you mean, can you have one score playing while viewing another?
in the screenshot i added some red arrows because i don't know the names of the tabs, are they score?
when i play a tab for 2 minutes (score if it's the right name) ,and i switch (click for example to lead guitar just because after 2 minutes there is a solo ) the playback stops
and i have to use the arrow left and right to find the solo
so there is no way to play and for example after 2 minutes jump/click on the leading guitar and see the notes+tabs of the solo without starting from beginning to the stave and find the solo with arrow keys?

thanks a lot

PS will musescore update in the future with new features? because i tried guitar pro 6 and 7 trial mode, i 'm thinking musescre compared to guitar pro , and i'm thinking to do a donation for the beautiful piece of
software

ps i don't know how quote "quote" and "/quote" don't work

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• Mar 23, 2018 - 17:34

Unfortunately, while converting a guitar staff from standard notation to tablature is extremely simple - as I said, just press "I" (or go to Edit / Instruments) and change the staff type - actually rewriting music originally written written for another instrument to make it playable on guitar is not simple. It requires musical expertise, lots of difficult decisions for an expert to make regarding what octave to play things in, how to handle chords that are unplayable on guitar, and much more. Probably some artificial researcher somewhere has written a program to attempt this, but it isn't something a notation program can do automatically. It's a slow paintaking process of figuring out how to take music that was not intended for guitar rewriting it so it is.

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• Dec 14, 2024 - 19:13

It's only 28 measures. No matter how slow you are, it shouldn't take more than 45-60 minutes to enter it into MuseScore. (And it will get faster as you become experienced in using the application.)

So, create a new (blank) score: Create from template / Solo / Guitar + Tablature. This creates a set of "linked staves". When you enter a note into one, the same note is entered into the other. So, when you enter the opening eighth note A into the notation staff, it will put a "2" (second fret) on the G string (third string). And so on.

A good way to get started using the MuseScore Studio application is to read the Handbook (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4) in its entirety. Don't read it to learn all the info, just skim it so that when you need a specific piece of information you'll have a rough idea of where to find it. Do read the Basics section carefully: that will be what you will need to enter the notes from your image into MuseScore.

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