Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

[Aceman]

I have a project I would like to complete (instructional book)

It is going to need a crap ton of simple guitar licks (two measure blues licks, etc) tabbed for examples

Playing them is not tough - however - getting them in tab would be.

If I could just play the part and have something transcribe it - that would be awesome.

How is this done? Details and specific products please.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

Guitar Pro.

Done.

 

[CTN]

Re: Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

playing it and having a piece of computer hardware/software tab it out for you is gonna be a nuisance unless you have a midi-capable guitar that can output midi events as notes and a midi interface to connect to your computer.


but if you aren't interested in investing in a rig like that, you'll just have to tab it out the good ol' fashioned way. Guitar Pro will definitely make it easier.
http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php?pg=product#/interface

once you tab it out you can then create/export midi files with simulated instruments, print out sheet music/tabs... it's really useful, not too difficult at all to learn, and really will help getting your ideas across. Also useful for trading ideas back and forth between bandmates if you plan on writing/arranging material for the milf magnet band

 

[Aceman]

Re: Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

whats the fast/cheap easy (pick two) way of doing midi? I have enough guitars laying around….

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

Honestly, I think you will be better off just writing it in. Once you get used to guitar pro (I still use 5 because I'm much more familiar with the GUI) you will be flying.

For MIDI, Latency or anything less than computer perfect timing will give you all sorts of weird timing for the notation with lots of weird ties and such (as in my experience with a MIDI keyboard anyways)...it won't quantize as it goes in and you cant quantize in GP. I suppose you could record into a DAW, quantize, then export the MIDI data, but then your TAB may be wrong...a classic problem with guitar in standard musical notation. That bend on the 5th fret of G might show up as the 10 on D.

Like I said, for writing 2-4 bar phrases your better off just taking a few hours and writing them all in.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Need serious technical info on tabbing guitar parts

Time to get started then….


Thanks guys

- and it does seem cost effective.