Guitar Pro Secrets - Write Standard Notation Without Using TAB - but tell GP which STRING to use

Discover well-kept SECRETS of how to write Standard Notation in Guitar-Pro. Check out these tips and tricks that I mostly found by trial and error.
Get Guitar-Pro files used on this channel: guitarbasement.com/guitar-pro....
Most people who already know Guitar Pro are most likely to know it for it's ability to write and play Guitar and Bass TAB notation. However, it's actually really good at writing Standard Music Notation too. Learn the "secret" commands from this video to help you get the most out of this program when writing Standard Notation in Guitar-Pro.
Are you already familiar with this software and know any other tricks like these? Post a comment below if you do. I'd love to know about it.

[@warmadden]

Outstanding, thank you! I too was looking for this information for a long time, and you provided exactly what I needed to know!

[@GuitarBasement]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful.

[@heskethlistening24]

Like you as I was struggling to work this out whilst trying to focus more on identifying standard notation not TAB. You cracked this for me thank you. Great video.

[@GuitarBasement]

Good to hear. Glad you found it useful.

[@magonsar]

Well good sir, you have indeed helped me more than the entire internet. I imported an mxl file from finale with a classical guitar trio and was dying of anxiety to find out the tabs were all mixed up lol

[@GuitarBasement]

Great. I'm glad it helped.

[@quidergo]

SUPER USEFUL VIDEO: ❤❤❤Exactly what I needed to maximize my Guitar Pro use for standard notation. Thank you so much!

[@GuitarBasement]

Thanks, I'm happy you found it useful.

[@BruceLande]

Wow! Love the move the string option that I did not realized was there. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@GuitarBasement]

I'm glad you got something from the video. Thanks for the comment.

[@michaelortiz9606]

Thank you for this, this is awesome!

[@GuitarBasement]

Thanks Michael, glad you like it.

[@WisleyVilela]

Thanks a lot for covering this topic, it is exactly what I was searching for. 🙂

[@GuitarBasement]

Glad it was helpful!

[@petertauscher316]

I bought GP8 yesterday and had to write some notation for the first time today. I was actually completely confused by those red numbers. Thank you SO effing much!! This might be one of the only ACTUALLY useful Tutorial I have found on KZbin! I've definitely subscribed and recommended you to all my bandmates! P.S. Please ignore the random Capitalization, I come from a German speaking Country, where we do that kind of Thing. Can't switch that Automatism off for Englisch sometimes.

[@GuitarBasement]

Awesome! Glad you found it useful.

[@bjarkitordarson9645]

Then "Note Positions" chapter 7:16 was what I have been looking for for ages! Thank you random internet stranger!

[@GuitarBasement]

Haha - glad you found it useful. It's interesting that I just watched it again myself and realized that I had forgotten how to do that! Pretty cool feature isn't it?

[@bjarkitordarson9645]

@@GuitarBasement It's such a narrow and obscure thing to google for answers. I had wathced so many tutorials that the title "Guitar Pro Secrets" made me think "I might as well try this..."

[@everlastingsaturnalia]

Dude you're a legend for this! I'm trying to improve my musicianship by practicing reading and writing music using standard notation and Guitar Pro, but I wasn't sure how to write scores using standard notation in the program and didn't want to shortcut my learning by falling back to tabulature input. This video is an amazing concentration of the exact info I needed. Thanks much!!

[@GuitarBasement]

Great! Glad you found it useful.

[@martoneill]

Thanks for sharing

[@GuitarBasement]

You're welcome

[@georgisirakov6800]

Hello, below is a solution for what you mentioned (at 5:16) about editing note durations by using the +/- keys. Hope it helps. File > Preferences (Ctrl + ,) > Interface > Score > "+/- keys behavior" and change it to "Longer/Shorter" (it is set to Shorter/Longer by default, which I find a bit counter-intuitive as well).

[@GuitarBasement]

Hey Georgi, you are awesome! Thanks for that tip. I switched and that's how I'll use it from now. Thank you! John

[@omtt-onlymusictipsandtrick4516]

Outstanding, thank you for sharing ! can you tell how to add roman number to show fret position in standard notation (without Tab showing) using guitar pro.

[@GuitarBasement]

Thank you... glad you liked it. Great question too. I am assuming you mean for barre chords, correct? Inside GP, on the left side on what they call the "editing pallet" there is an icon "BV." With your chord pre-selected on the staff, click the BV icon and a window will pop up. It will try to detect the fret for the barre but you can also edit the fret number. You actually made me curious about the different ways and options to use this and I was thinking that perhaps I should do a tutorial on that after I do a little more research. For example, I don't see an option to use C instead of B, which I've seen used a lot. Or, to remove the prefix letter and just have the Roman numerals. It's not perfect, but it's easy to use. Did that answer your question?

[@JuanDeMarias]

Thank you for these great tips! I have a couple of questions for you: 1.- How can I grab a note with the mouse in standard notation and drag it up or down on the staff, for example grab a G and move it to be a C. 2.- How do I move a note on a certain string in the Tab and move it to another string but the same fret? For example a 5 in the 2nd string to a 5 in the 1st string (E to A). I haven't found a way to do that or I missed it in the manual ... I hope you can help

[@GuitarBasement]

Good questions! 1. Hold down Alt and Shift together, then use the up or down arrow keys to change the note. 2. Two steps: (a)Hold down Alt then use arrow keys to change to another string. (b)Hold down Alt-Shift plus up or down arrows. I don't know a way to change from fret 5 to fret 5 on an adjacent string, but it's actually only 5 arrow clicks for your example. I hope that helps..

[@JuanDeMarias]

@@GuitarBasement Thanks but question 1 solution doesn't seem to work at least on my PC. Alt+Shift+arrows don't move the selected note ... On question 2, method a) changes the equivalent note to the next string as per your video but again b) doesn't do anything. Somehow the cobination Alt+Shift doesn't work in any situation ... thanks anyway. I'm surprised that something so simple as moving a note on the staff cannot be done by dragging with the mouse, it seems to be normal in any other musicsoftware.

[@GuitarBasement]

@@JuanDeMarias Well I suppose it's because not all programmers think alike - thankfully - or we would all be robots! Although, I understand your frustration when something seems logical but doesn't work. Have you tried contacting their support to find out why their Alt key combinations don't work? I believe I contacted them once about an issue and got a response.

[@danmcquiston8175]

What do you do when the software does not allow you to go beyond the first measure?

[@GuitarBasement]

You probably clicked in the measure without selecting a note. That selects the entire measure so it thinks that's all you want to play. Just select a single note where you want it to start and it should play the whole thing. If you have a single bar selected you could also go to the measure where you want it to play to and Shift click that measure. It will then select all those measures and only play what is selected. I believe that's what's going on.

[@jeetray11]

Thanks for the video. I have a trial version and i was trying to input notes on the staff area and couldn't figure it out. The way you entered the notes seem excruciatingly inefficient (slow). Isn't it intuitive to use just the music note letters to enter them (e.g. a, b, c etc.)? Musescore does just that. Why do we have to use arrow keys to position the cursor to where the note should be? That is ridiculous. So A-G should be the input method and plus/minus can be used for duration. What do you say?

[@GuitarBasement]

I get what you are saying and it makes sense. Finale is like that. However, when you enter notes on staff in GP using number keys, you are also deciding which string to play the note on and it will display correctly on the TAB. I switch between TAB and Staff when I am documenting something I am playing on guitar. I guess we all use what works best for us.

[@jeetray11]

@@GuitarBasement I sent gp a suggestion they said they will consider adding this feature in the next version.