Guitar Pro 8 Tutorial - Transcribing With The New Audio Import Feature

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[@FKA_Skull]

Damnit. I was hoping I could drop a song in and it would transcribe the whole thing for me.

[@onion69420]

Now that would be an insane feature

[@monicaosorno7564]

Same 🤭

[@felipecortegana3209]

I was about to lose my mind, then had your reaction

[@jbf16falcon]

That would put Clay in the soup line.

[@edwinchian6664]

@@jbf16falcon 🤣🤣🤣

[@doug941]

There just is no substitute for 10,000 hours! We all wish we could transcribe like you do! Great tutorial! Subscribed with the bell!

[@SevaNup]

Indeed, a true master at work!

[@yuli3873]

Just wow... your transcribing skills are beyond awesome! You earned a new subscriber!

[@mattcook476]

I didn't even know about version 8 until I saw this video. Thanks Levi!

[@cojack1287]

Subbed because not only are you teaching this fine lesson of transcribology to me, you're damn good at it.

[@coolmacatrain9434]

Wonderful instruction as always, Levi. Thank you

[@isaacrodriguez3000]

“There’s no substitute for hard work” -Zakk Wylde Beast video and I love you that you essentially demonstrated a lesson on what it looks like after practicing transcribing for 10,000 hours! Very much appreciated video. It’s humbling, and now I know that I need to get to work!

[@gtoctane]

Great stuff Levi!!

[@anuvette]

I love this feature so much!!

[@SarahBergsvik]

Awesome- thanks, Levi!

[@santana2420]

Great feature. I'm enjoing it!

[@govindoburdwan]

showing us your keyboard typing will help us a lot. I have been transcribing for years but want to learn how you do it. Thanks for all the help.

[@wilbertaranda891]

amazing skills!

[@BroodingPeeps]

This is an insane feature. I've been using Guitar Pro 5 ever since it was released and was never inclined to check the newer versions.

[@tonyhills2112]

I just upgraded using the affiliate link, thanks very much for these tutorials. Your transcribing skills are formidable Mr. Clay!

[@JoeyC4D]

1:52, exactly what I needed thank you!

[@johnmac8084]

This is great. You're right Levi, it would be fantastic if they could get it to play video as well like the Transcribe program does

[@lacuatrista]

Thank you!!!!

[@omniton4106]

Really nice tutorial - this makes transcribing much easier. And while it does not free one up from music theory, (bruising up on all my past education) it will help you either reconnect to theory or help you learn by example if you are taking any classes. Well, at least it has for me....

[@nuoralanmikonmusiikki]

Thx for this too. Amazing what you can do with software nowadays.. Did my first transcriptions from a c-cassette. Btw. I just realised i have your counry guitar method book.. :)

[@SjaakShirly6559]

Thanks Levi! I must have this upgrade! Haha!

[@jodagold5481]

Also , using a backing track it would be cool if you could drag chords and scales that can be transposed onto the transcript and manipulate to taste / and arrange notes /riffs accordingly - is this possible I wonder ?

[@guillermorossi6750]

Hello Levi!! Thank you very much for the page. I have one question: how can I do to ligate two different notes (prolongation ligature) and more than two notes (expression ligature)? Thanks again!

[@christopherotoole532]

Been using the audio import for a while now, massive feature, made teaching songs much more engaging and a big help for transcribing. One issue I've had is that is after importing a track, syncing it all up tempo wise once you start start transcribing, if a repeat marker is put in it doesn't compensate for that on the sync points and just adds extra bars which is annoying from the standpoint of making it a cohesive easy to read score, the only other option is to have no repeats 8 pages of tab

[@jamespitman3357]

u r highly skilled

[@irishRocker1]

It's worth noting for the audio import and tempo matching, that some songs, especially older songs, often don't have a fixed tempo. Tempos can change for verse/chorus, but also, can be more groove based. Drummers can give the song some energy by speeding up gradually before a chorus etc. Or slowing down for a verse. That's how music was played before the music industry quantised, or locked everything to a grid in pro tools etc. So just be aware, if you set up a tempo at the start of a song, if it goes out of sync later it could be that the song tempo has actually changed or isn't consistant.

[@LeviClay]

If you watched the video rather than trying to appear smart, you’d see that you can drag the markers in the audio file to line up transients to account for increases and decreases in tempo…

[@MoontailProduction]

@@LeviClay Isn't Marty's comment just complementing your demonstration of the tool ? As like, don't be surprised if your song's tempo fluctuates more than a few %, it's the band playing whit out a click and not GP8 being buggy. This comment makes you appear kind of passive-aggressive, which I'm sure you're not, so that's sad.

[@burneraccounthandle]

@@LeviClay why are you being such a dick to someone whos clearly trying to help your viewers? hes just saying that people need to be aware. douchebag, was interested in your videos but now ill go to someone else

[@Beulzabob]

Before our robot overlords started their musical rhythmic oppression.

[@the_real_brett_h]

@@LeviClay I agree the tempo should stay the same, its not that the industry has quantised anything - its just that musicians generally play in time whichever era they are from. lining up the transiants and choosing the right note length works for me - also the time signature can change from bar to bar like in anything off "and justice for all" for example but the tempo will stay the same I think. Any way I am loving GP8 game changer for me a newbie to transcription trying to move away from dowloading tabs to learn songs. cheers.

[@musicbackground9247]

Thanks for the video. Any way of, when you drag a tempo markewr, it changes the rest of the markers in relation and changes the tempo globally?

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Great video as usual mate. Would be really interested to know how do you include a scrolling strip of a guitar pro transcription underneath a performance video?

[@LeviClay]

screen capture

[@yjm100playloud]

Can you please make a video explaining how to synchronize the audio in existing tabs. I could add the audio but i couldn’t synchronize. Thanks

[@rdscallon754]

Great lesson - Thx Can you import a file / recording from Garage Bamd and convert to tablature?

[@richardmyers6092]

Is there a way to increase or decrease an instruments volume towards the end of a measure? For example the last 2 measures of a song.? Thanks in advance for any advice.

[@AutumnRed]

what do you do exactly do at 1:23 to get the audio file showing completely and the tab adapting to the song lenght? I can't get see anything at that part of the program that helps me getting my current audio file to show completely and the tab to adapt to its length

[@OlivvYeah]

When gp8 it came out, I was immediately sure Levi would be as happy as I was 😉

[@ElsweyrDiego]

is this better than musescore 4 for composing / transcribing?

[@Dominatoruke]

Great stuff, Levi. I agree, video integration would be a huge game changer. BTW, quick question...I got GP8 installed and running. Would it be prudent to go ahead and remove GP7 from my machine? I've pointed GP8 to save files in the same folder I was saving all my GP7 files.

[@LeviClay]

I would keep it around

[@dwfav]

Is there a way of colour coding a section? Like using differenmt colours for Verse, chorus, etc? As i often get lost on a tab when following- the eyes like to jump around haha

[@sloppyprogrammer4373]

Thanks for the video, I was too late for the discount on the license. But this video made me reconsider and actually immediately buy the upgrade after months of doubt if it was actually worth it. I am happy they are sticking to a pay once license and hope it doesn't change in the future, it's so much better than subscription based licenses because you can actually evaluate if the upgrade is worth it. And with that in mind, I really don't care about a 10 euro discount, since it's very affordable.

[@acvisanu]

Thanks for the great video. Is it possible to share files on my gp8 to iOS gp. Thanks.

[@gabrieladenot3007]

This feature alone sold me GP8 (I had been using GP6 until recently). I transcribe a lot of Old School Death Metal, and tempo-wise, it's all over the place. It used to be quite the chore to tempo map everything even half decently, lol.

[@madProgenitorDeity]

Is real-time note detection from midi (note lengths) an option yet?

[@adamburger858]

Great vid Levi, I subbed you a long time ago, but I've only watched a handful of your videos. They were all good btw. Anyway, I've been thinking about getting guitar pro for a while, but I'm a little worried about the learning curve? mostly with the timing of everything and whatnot? Drums were my first instrument, so I'm not totally new as far as the rhythm part of it, and I have not great, but pretty decent computer skills. I was wondering if you have any advice or input on that? thanks bro-

[@LeviClay]

sounds like you should have absolutely zero problems to be honest! You have experience in rhythm, where would the struggle be. Guitar pro is primarily used by the musically illiterate.... guitarists.

[@adamburger858]

@@LeviClay lol, thanks for the speedy response, and thanks, that's cool bro, I guess in Retrospect?, where I think my brain is going? is I would like to experiment with writing some riffs or chords or whatever, badass ones of course lol, and then try to learn it? .. You know what I mean?, I think Jason Richardson does something like this? so I guess the question would be- do you think that guitar pro is the best for this, and is it worth it?.. do you have any experience with this? thanks again-

[@NikoplayLetsPlay]

Thank you for the video. Do you know if they added an option of playing multiple GTP files in order? Basically, you finish one song, and it's immediately switches over to the next one and starts to play? Would appreciate the reply, much obliged.

[@LeviClay]

No

[@guitartabvideo]

It would be great to add -"tap tempo" button to sync during playing audio, like in soundslice

[@raefblack7906]

Have you got a link to that song?

[@ourclarioncall]

IN TABLATURE NOTATION, IS THERE ANY WAY TO TURN OFF THE LINES/STEMS SO ITS JUST SIMPLE TAB WITH NO TIMING. I WANT IT CLEANER LOOKING WITHOUT ALL THAT. CHEERS

[@SF_Curious]

Can it display chords on each notation? I don’t see the benefit of just playing back a song if I can not see chords or strumming patterns

[@joshguydrake]

Is it possible to delete portions of the audio track, say if you just want to transcribe to solo and not start from the beginning of the track?

[@alanmcdowell977]

Levi Clay I just bought Guitar Pro 8 Ihave sheet music and I would like to learn how to tab out on Guitar Pro 8. Is there video or step by step on how to do this .Or a book [for dummies] If these not you or to do one .I watched some of your videos Their awsomoe Think You Alan

[@GitarGitaran1]

hi friends, how to make guitar fingerstyle slap technique in guitar pro? I hope you are willing to help me

[@thebarronflights]

How does one transcribe the base of Hotel California to Ukulele in key of G?

[@I-SHADOW-I]

Never tried gp8, Can i import some tabs from paper song books like a kind of ocr and use it in the software ?

[@LeviClay]

No

[@DeutschlandGuy]

It's important to note that if an audio track is not perfectly consistent during repeated sections, such as verses or choruses, or if it includes a "go to coda" in the score, syncing the score with the audio throughout will be unfeasible. This is because a performer may vary the timing slightly on repeated song sections. Therefore, even if the first verse is perfectly synced, subsequent repetitions may fall out of sync. A workaround is to create a new GP8 file without any repeats or "go to coda" sections in the score. The song should be written out completely from start to finish in an uninterrupted score. This approach may extend a 3-page score to 6 or 7 pages due to the absence of repeats. However, this method ensures that once completed, the score remains in sync throughout the performance, regardless of repeated sections. As of June 2024, GP8 does not offer the feature to mark audio sections according to the number of times they are played in the score. It would be beneficial if future updates included this feature. Until then, for songs with timing variations in repeated sections, the score must be laid out in a single, continuous sequence without repeats. You are welcome. 😋

[@temiongcecilio]

I thought the app would transcribe the audio file automatically into notes and tabs. It would have been great if it could do that.

[@cuneytozkurt4867]

hey, I liked this song, what's the song name?

[@rlc8378]

How can I transpose chords in guitar pro 8?

[@cmdrdiamondfast1162]

For whatever reason I keep running into an issue with the repeats, for multiple endings, are not working right when composing music.

[@Amanupunnjo]

How you do that at 5:45 minute add the empty spots?

[@TroyNaumu808]

Can Guitar Pro files be exported into a DAW like Logic, ProTools and Audio Evolution?

[@LeviClay]

You can export either midi or audio and import that

[@esch7055]

My GP7 is crashing when I export audios (MP3 and WAV). Does anyone know how to fix it?

[@chreydylan8034]

Hi, I want to purchase Guitar Pro 8 but when I tried download it its giving me an error, app wont open cause its missing a file. My biggest question is, if I purchase GP8 can I still use GP7?

[@LeviClay]

yep, they're different apps

[@herrunsinn774]

This is a tad bit off topic, Levi, but I thought I'd put a bug in your ear for a future video. I wonder if you would do a short video on how you clearly capture your full GP8 screen while you superimpose your own image in a "movable window" over top of it. Are you using some particular piece of software to capture not only your computer screen but also your own image? Knowing how to do this would be a huge help for "budding" video producers like myself. Thank you sir!

[@LeviClay]

OBS

[@herrunsinn774]

@@LeviClay Thanks!

[@shanewilliams247]

Great video. I don't do any transcribing , i just download tabs and load them up. I'm guessing you won't be able to download GP files with the audio included?, i'd imagine there would be copyright issues with that

[@LeviClay]

Correct. But technically speaking there are copyright issues with tabs, so I’d expect some people just just put the audio in the file anyway

[@marstudios7879]

One of the best thing guitar pro 8 could add is a feature that record or write the audio file notation in the music staff while it is playing. Because when you don't have a solid music theory background it could be tough to transcribe exactly note by note on the music staff. That feature would be the best.

[@LeviClay]

Sooo it would be best if guitar pro was… magic? I’ll pass that on

[@mG-tb9bt]

Hi Clay. What is the name of this song and where can I find the GP file or Tab for it. Thanks!!

[@LeviClay]

I think it was a Josh smith solo from his last fundamental changes book

[@benirodriguez9516]

Would love Guitar Pro to have automatic transcription! You play in the audio... and voila! the tab is done! :D of course, some tweaking would always need done though, but wouldn't that be awesome?

[@LeviClay]

Would also love it is I could click my fingers and the guitar played itself. Learning skills is awful 😂

[@benirodriguez9516]

@@LeviClay haha.. indeed! :D The issue I have is learning the skill and then boom... AI takes over! :D

[@jason3000tt]

Very helpful.....can you compose on the bass clef with this software?

[@LeviClay]

Yep

[@jason3000tt]

@@LeviClay awesome I'm learning the bass guitar.

[@Ebdim9th]

Those are really impressive features in and of themselves, just starting to look around on the program, can't believe I never noticed that 'tap for tempo' feature before.. Went back to Guitar Pro 6 and sure enough there it was....

[@yaroslavleshchukh]

Hi there! Thank you for such a good videos. Can l do the same with drum transcribing?

[@LeviClay]

Yeah, I have videos on doing drums in guitar pro

[@yaroslavleshchukh]

@@LeviClay , thanks 👍 I will check ✔️

[@svorttsirhc1814]

I have a problem when I export .gp file to midi and load it to my DAW the time is off , example I have a GP tab that's 4:37 in length I export the midi and load it to my DAW and the file is 6:10 ! Help !!!

[@LeviClay]

Midi files have no length. They are tempo dependant

[@svorttsirhc1814]

@@LeviClay .gp exported midi files do look it up .

[@okuratnywidz3196]

I thought that this program have function which writed while play song

[@davidsgardell]

I remember back in the mid 90's when I used to go out and buy tab books, it was sooo cool, being able to learn how to play your favourite songs, or in some cases, at least *see* how they're supposed to be played 😂 Then later with software like GP, I transfered several from the books and I could actually play them back. I loved doing that, staying up all night. We have come far with GP8! Just a question, to a pro: A lot of times I remember these "professional" tab books being quite off. Do you know what the deal is with that? I understand typos can happen, but some were pretty bad. Also with some of the finger positioning like you would never play it that way, And for a "pro" to type it out like that, makes no sense to me.

[@LeviClay]

I do! So often they were done by piano players, they could hear the notes… kind of… but a lot of the time it was notated in notation, then the tab was automated. You need to be a player, and in the mind of the person who played it to know how to finger stuff

[@davidsgardell]

@@LeviClay Ah, that makes perfect sense! I figured there was some kind of automated process from notation to tab. I remember some quite extreme cases where you'd have to have extreme fingers 😂 and being new to guitar you didn't question things. Thanks man! And damn you are a master at this holy crap!

[@Roger8176]

​@@davidsgardellSince you mentioned the word extreme I think you would find it extremely ironic the TAB book for EXTREME's second album Pornograffitti suffered from exactly what you were talking about. That great of an album deserved a better TAB book to go along with it.

[@canadianbassist-garrettont7368]

i wish there was a way you could just take an isolate track and it just tabs it out for you lol

[@robjames6653]

Levi, so to be clear, I can't just drag an audio file in and it will transcribe it for me? Like Melodyne for instance? I was really hoping it could do that, would have bought it immediately!! I had hoped to use it to learn the leads and bass lines in Classic tunes. I guess that ain't happening with this software? Other than hiring a guy like you with a perfect ear, how would I go about achieving that?

[@LeviClay]

No. It’s not magic. Do you think there’s a magic way to do that… and yet people still pay me to do it?

[@robjames6653]

@@LeviClay Wasn't expecting magic, but I thought from your video that, that's what it was doing. Because that's how it seemed in your video. Anyways, moving on....how much do you charge for your Service? For a 16 bar lead for example? Or is there a place to buy pre-made transcriptions of famous songs?

[@LeviClay]

@@robjames6653 you can buy transcriptions in guitar pro’s “my songbook”, I don’t do anything that short anymore as I’ve got full albums on the go

[@robjames6653]

@@LeviClay Thank you Sir......on my way!! Oh sorry, one quick question will those transcriptions from my SongBook load into Guitar Pro 8, seamlessly?

[@LeviClay]

@@robjames6653 yep!

[@sebasguitar132]

Does guitar pro 8 have dark mode version for a dark sheet?

[@LeviClay]

I’m not actually sure on that one! I’ll have a look. Though I can say you can export tabs as transparent pngs, essentially allowing you to use them on any background you’d like

[@sebasguitar132]

@@LeviClay thanks for the fast response! that's great, it would be cool if you could use all those cool features with a fully dark mode to work late at night

[@jodagold5481]

Very interesting - if ableton audio warping type functionality so you can slow down the audio was integrated re slowing down for newbies like me that could be very powerful - illl buy on the link ! Cheers Actually you can slow it down ! Cool

[@LeviClay]

It is

[@jodagold5481]

@@LeviClay Yes I clocked that towards end of video .. a great learning tool

[@GERARD9415]

Can you open or import a mp3?

[@LeviClay]

Yep - that’s what I’m doing

[@emearg191]

Kevin Owens t shirt 👍

[@darianleduc]

😎lol me too.

[@scott_an]

Makes transcribing with ADHD easier when you don’t have to switch back and forth to Transcribe 😂 Just wish I could filter as well as Transcribe, but baby steps. Edit: just found something I wish it could do… add multiple audio files. I transcribe worship tunes with multiple layers of the same instrument and kind of wished I could flip between them as I go. Ah well, nothing’s perfect.

[@LCRLive687]

Whats the point of this when it doesnt read the actual audio to convert to midi and then properly transcribe itself to GP8 without having to manually do it?

[@LeviClay]

What’s the point of guitars that don’t just play themselves? Pull your finger out and learn a skill

[@AngeloGuardia]

and then there's me still running GP4 😅

[@G33MAN65]

I still can't do that

[@kyfisher3662]

has anyone noticed how badly it glitches when you use repeat markers with an audio track?

[@kyfisher3662]

seams it happens if you add alot of extra bars after it and then do something like x20 on the repeat, it will try play it all at an insane speed

[@TozeCerdeira]

Before this there was.... Rockmer a great transcription program for FREE.

[@LeviClay]

And before that, there was paper. Progress is awesome.

[@sickoff7872]

Good luck fools!!! I can imagine Stevie Ray Vaughan fiddling around on the computer for 3 months to get 2 chords.

[@LeviClay]

And yet.. here you are, watching and commenting. Unable to transcribe OR play like SRV 🤷

[@metalurgjunior7378]

Notification gang |

[@LeviClay]

There’s some of you!

[@HeadbangoO]

Eager to see the rest. For now you still can't move grace notes and you still need Transcribe...

[@LeviClay]

You don’t NEED transcribe, you CAN work in just GP. I just prefer using transcribe. And yes, you can’t move grace notes… which sucks

[@davekell36]

Fuck...I wasted 70 bucks. Bought this cause I thought It would help me transcribe songs :( Like drop a mp3 file in load it and it would build the songs notes......doh, maybe they will refund me.

[@LeviClay]

Or… you could learn!

[@davekell36]

started playing guitar in 79, music lessons on acoustic ,sheet music the whole shabang. Just never clicked, that didnt stop me tho. I have spent 40+ yrs trying to learn :) btw they did refund me @@LeviClay

[@markgordoncreamer7279]

I learned exactly zero percent of what I wanted to learn about Guitar Pro.

[@robintrenda1170]

This is truly insane!! Let me explain.....I recently came across a KZbin video of Ross Campbell- "This Cliché Blues Lick Is Amazing" and really liked it, so I started trying to transcribe it to paper. After awhile it occurred to me that it would be great to look for application that I could use for transcribing. So, I dug around and tried a few including Musescore and GuitarPro. I signed up for the trial of GuitarPro and started away transcribing this lick. Since it was my first shot with the program, it took awhile, as I was going back and forth between the video and the program. Before I finished the transcription, I decided to purchase GuitarPro. When I opened it up, it automatically erased the all the work I'd done, because I hadn't saved it. Oh well, back to work. Starting up again, I thought, "I wonder if there's a way to import and audio file into GuitarPro so I could work within the program without going back and forth to the video. That's when I came across this tutorial. Cool! And as I was watching it, I couldn't believe my ears that the audio file you chose to work with was exactly the same file that started my search for a transcribing program in the beginning. What are the chances of that???? One-in-a-million? I nearly fell out of my chair. Thanks for the tutorial, and also for saving me tons of time because your transcription is far more accurate than mine would have been!! I've subscribed, and I will be looking for a Patreon donation or something for all your help!

[@LeviClay]

Hahaha that’s actually really funny 😂

[@LeviClay]

I am Ross’s transcriber

[@robintrenda1170]

@@LeviClay Who knew? How crazy is the confluence of that? I literally have only watched one video of Ross, and then this video of you. Thanks again!