How to Easily Arrange Guitar Tab in Logic Pro X

Logic Pro X features a full guitar tab editor. It takes a little finding, and a tiny bit of setting up to make it really easy to use. In this video I go over how to view your score as guitar tab, review some project settings, and recommend some keyboard shortcuts that helps you change what string each note should be played on.
Download the project file here: drive.google.c...
Hope this if helpful!

[@AndiDoubleV]

Mate, you have just changed my world! and I've​ had logic since 2014!!!

[@pavelg.5788]

Great tip! Thank you I initially didn't have option for the TAB Guitar in Layout nor Tablature Tab in Score settings. In case anyone else will have this issue - you need to do following: Preferences > Advanced > in Additional Options mark Score

[@JLxnnie]

🙏🙏🙏

[@MoGratitude]

!!! speechless on how helpful and to the point this was, on top of setting up another shortcut key command, pls dont delete this video

[@matts7214]

Thanks for the video. If you do not have the guitar tab options (like me at first), then go to Logic Menu -> Preferences -> Advanced Tools. Make sure Score is checked under additional options.

[@destroyallfrets]

Needed this. Thank you!

[@samsnowmusic]

this made my life so much easier! thank you!

[@chadgarber]

How cool is that!! Thanks!

[@reynoldabrahamj2815]

Really good helpful video …more detailed then others 🎉

[@EmilioLanzaMusic]

you have just changed my world!!!!!

[@martindke]

thank you so much. I've been struggling with this for years. Major breakthrough. Thanks Man

[@zorkmarble]

This video has changed my life! Thanks!

[@meetblackbird]

Great vid. Thanks. Very clear and on point!

[@theorncampbell4432]

All these years I've been manually changing channels instead of using short cuts! 😬 This is soooo much easier. Also, I recommend using guitar mix so that you can see Tab and notation in the same section of the score. It makes it easier to voice the guitar with other instruments. Cheers!

[@ethandaum]

This is so massively helpful. I really appreciate you making and sharing this video!

[@wordsworthjlang]

Super helpful! Next best thing to having a midi guitar pickup.

[@simpletwo4768]

This trick save me day!!! thank you so much for sharing

[@cambridgebasslessons]

Thanks you so much for this video. I was scratching my head as to how to change the positioning.

[@kwanchan3440]

Thankyou so much for the info. I've been wanting to do this for ages and your video has shown me in a most clear and concise way!!

[@spunky221]

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed.

[@shoestringproducer]

Thank you for this. This was a massive help!

[@samknox6607]

Exactly what I was after, thanks for the video!!

[@carltonmackall8789]

Bruh, you just upgraded me. Hope you smell the roses today

[@patrickstefurak3124]

Great video. Thank you! December 2020... still works in Logic Pro X and Mac Big Sur. I used control+up & control+down for MIDI event channel switching as those are not assigned in the current version of Logic Pro X.

[@pkundu480]

Lot of thanks for this video. This video is changed my idea.

[@bluesnfire401]

Sooo helpful. THANK YOU!

[@destroyallfrets]

Perfect. Thank you!

[@hitsonacousticguitar]

Thank you, thank you, thank you

[@bruceizzett]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@SvenVarkel]

Thanks, it helped me a lot today.

[@Bellcity]

I never knew this was a function in Logic. Thank you!

[@gustavogastelum9024]

Man thanks a lot! I do love my Logic but sometimes things doesn't seem to be very logical. I don't know how you come across this (manipulating the tabs via the MIDI channels. That's crazy. As a music teacher this was exactly what I needed.

[@cesarmennig1385]

Many thanks sir this has helped mucho

[@zach9827]

Thank you so much for this. Tremendous help!!!

[@willmatla]

Thank you very much ,this is really helpful

[@phoebexxlouise]

you absolute genius

[@RafCenterMyself]

This was indeed helpful, thanks. Logic does a horrible job, when it comes to this... I simply want to tab some simple bass lines and it drives me crazy. It's still easier to switch to guitar pro or any other editor and import it afterwards.

[@ElectricRay]

THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT WAS PERFECT.

[@PhoenixAndTheRaven]

Thanks very helpful

[@robinloops]

You could also use inverse channel and swap the key commands (up arrow changes to lower number and visa versa). Then when you use the arrow up key it will move up and down arrow for down but the ch number will correspond to the traditional guitar string number.

[@mikep6967]

Awesome! You just saved me from buying guitar pro ! So helpful!!

[@KevinBryden1]

This is great, thanks so much. I've set it all as you suggest and some notes require multiple keystrokes to shift the note. Have a done something wrong in the set up? When I had Sibelius G7, it would do that automatically, you just had to drag the note to the required string.

[@kianajune]

wow this is great video!!!

[@MadMartyrMedia]

This is great! My only screw up is now I can't hear the parts I changed to "tablature". I know I did something wrong, but can't figure out what.

[@radiofreezeitgeist1164]

Brilliant, thank you so, so much!

[@jacobspencer6252]

Thank you very much

[@CharleySuede]

Excellent!

[@jobemusic2770]

Thanks mate!

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Apple I hope you watch this clip, this is a crazy amount of work for something that should be programmed in. Drag a note to the next string should automatically position it!

[@YoureNowOnTV]

I don't see Guitar of any kind as an option in "Style" for Score.

[@YoureNowOnTV]

FIXED: Go to Preferences, ADVANCED, Show advanced Tools and select ENABLE ALL

[@holydigital]

Superb! Thanks so much.

[@sunjamrblues]

Very cool, thanks for this video. But I'm thinking for quick and easy automatic tab generation (for sharing with friends, etc), it might be better to just buy a MIDI guitar and feed it into one of the tab writing programs.

[@EmilioLanzaMusic]

Hi. Please could you recommend a good midi guitar to write tabs into Logic? Thanks

[@mjafar]

Thank you ☺☺

[@janpillaerds1826]

Great! thanks

[@JulesJulioMartinez]

Thank you so much, it helped a lot !

[@EmilioLanzaMusic]

Hi! Great video. What about automatic writing the tabs using a MIDI guitar? Thanks in advance!

[@dzoni9918]

Hi, can you please tell me more about MIDI guitar writting? I am new 😁 and wich program do you use?

[@dzoni9918]

@emiliolanza

[@EmilioLanzaMusic]

@@dzoni9918 hi! I use Logic but I'm not a guitar tab composer sorry

[@dzoni9918]

@@EmilioLanzaMusic thank you very much :)

[@DrJoshGuitar]

Is there a way to set a high and low fret limit (for a section)? If you could, then you wouldn't have to manually move notes around as much.

[@chrisbe51]

Hiya, really great video. Can you repost the project?

[@fretsnreeds]

I know its been a while but... BTW Really helpful video, thanks! My question- is it possible to create an instrument from scratch, I need to create a banjo tuning but cant find where I can create a 5 stringed instrument and of course end up with notation. I sort of went along the amend a 5 string Bass but sort of got to a dead end.

[@zanthestudio9088]

Muchas gracias!

[@haozhou1791]

How to change line spacing between each rows? I want to increase the line space to add extra text, lyrics.

[@garythorsen2861]

I have a question I hope someone can answer. I need to write tab for 10 strings - can logic add more strings to tab?

[@symph1744]

I wonder if a midi guitar will actually record everything correctly into tabs using this method

[@LuisCastroMusic]

This was great!!

[@gastonduroc201]

Thank you for your video ... The tablature editor unfortunately has not evolved over the years: Impossible to write really polyphonically (with three four voices) ... There is always the solution to display at the same time the score and the tablature.

[@recordjazz]

Can you do this with bass guitar (audio) ?

[@krazywasp23]

for some reason it correctly notated by bass tab when i put it on the guitar clef. IDK why but im not gonna mess with it lol.

[@reaganbrowneofficialyoutube]

Can you use tab with regular audio or is it only MIDI?

[@andrewhollanduk]

Here’s a question. I’ve created a bass tab and everything is looking good except for some weird reason logic lays out the bars as different lengths which is not ideal. How do I line the bars up so they are even? Cheers. Great video.

[@kianajune]

do you know, is there a way to add the chord names over that?

[@JusticeConstantine]

Thank you.

[@noahm]

Thanks heaps!

[@JoseSequeira]

Nice tip on the key command for moving the note to a different string! Do you know if it´s possible to increase the distance between strings on the tablature? I´ve been looking everywhere but apparently it doesn´t have that option! Thanks.

[@naadhaantham]

Great 👍

[@fpscb8332]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mrsnapple5827]

Is this possible in GarageBand or do you require Logic Pro X

[@rickybrenay6249]

you can always keep it inverted and then for the key command just set the opposite...

[@paulkoester7039]

Logic is such a fantastic piece of software, but boy certain things are just really cryptic.

[@chadgarber]

Until I realized that all the tabs were in one string! Lol

[@smepp9418]

I can’t get any notes above 4 on any of the strings in tab

[@dobrepytanie828]

Does Logic Pro X let you make it sound like a guitar in the end, or is this just to make it easier for a guitar player to arrange the piano parts?

[@rosaspinall4556]

Yes you can do synth guitars in Logic Pro X, you just need to change the instrument for that track. Press ‘Y’ to open the library and you can browse all the instruments logic includes, and there’s lots of guitars. What are you trying to do?

[@AndyGalaxy]

I didn't have to change a thing. Just did it.

[@smigglychalmers]

Yeah fine but what if you yourself are the guitar player? I need real analysis tab capability not admin

[@malditoklee]

Can you tell me why I'm getting two options on my tablature for notes on two strings? cdn.pbrd.co/images/H4x1DK0.png I'm really unsure where it's getting these options? Please help :)

[@rosaspinall4556]

Bishop Bautista Have a look at your source midi data in the piano roll - do you have duplicate notes for these? If so just delete 1 of the 2 notes. You could also delete the notes in the score / tab view by selecting the string/fret voicing you don’t want to keep and hitting backspace / delete. Sometimes you get these in the score editor even when it looks like 2 separate note events in the piano roll, because the score editor is applying a quantisation to make simpler notation. So you end up with 2 notes of the same pitch being quantised to be played at the same time - which is what the tab is trying to show! Does that help? If not I’m happy to have a look at the project file for you, email me, mat at mataspinall dot com : )

[@malditoklee]

Thank you so much for your quick reply :) I don't see double stacks notes. I'll send you this simple file so you can see it yourself! :) Thanks so much!

[@lv-music4663]

I’ve had a look, it is that the notes are doubled. They’re just perfectly doubled, exactly the same note length for each note, so you can’t see them in the piano roll. But they are there! Open up the event list (shortcut ‘D’) and you’ll see there’s 2 events for every note! Easiest fix for this is, in either the piano roll or the score editor, go to edit > select > highest notes, then press the backspace key. That will get rid of all the duplicate notes! Normally that function would select the highest note in a chord, but here it just selects all the dupes for us!

[@malditoklee]

OMG, your amazing! I can only image you have been using logic since version 1 LOL! and I feel foolish now for missing that. Thank you so very much! BTW: Do you happen to have a good template for drum notation? Thank YOU!

[@thecamilosanchezproject]

Logic is a good Daw, but it has this stupid little things that are very simple in other softwares, but they manage somehow to make it very complicated in Logic, its like they have a talent to screw things up

[@vhollund]

There MUST be an easier solution than Logic

[@dalebrehm6070]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@SethFreeman]

Super helpful - thank you

[@terje6522]

Thanks a lot!