My FAVOURITE Practice Tool! Guitar Pro Overview & Demo

[@herrunsinn774]

I love Guitar Pro 7.5 for a lot of reasons. In particular, as a practice tool, I love that if I am having trouble getting a phrase under my fingers, I can loop it and slow it down. If I can't play it then, I'll slow it down again... and again and again until I get it slow enough that I can play along with it. Once I have it in my head and under my fingers, I simply increase the speed incrementally until I can play it at full speed. One feature I wish the developers would add would be the ability to import a tempo map as a midi file. Often I have a note-for-note transcription of a song from the original arranger/artist but the tempo is not the same as a recording made by that artist/arranger. The ability to import a tempo map (from Melodyne) would be brilliant (as the Brits say) in this case.

[@martinchan4546]

I’m born in the right generation...just amazing software

[@nenek6708]

The best time

[@EnriqueRojasmusic]

Definitely agree with you!

[@Fatfingertunes]

Great introduction, thanks Darryl, I'm sold on this!

[@ilovegitaar]

There is also an export function for Many formats such has MP3,pdf,midi,wav etc

[@EnriqueRojasmusic]

Definitely agree! Guitar pro is also one of my favorite software. I use it all the time to practice guitar and make arrangements. Great video!

[@baomomusic7280]

The best Guitar Pro 7.5 music maker software

[@overcome8628]

Best quick guide ever, Awesome job!

[@DarrylSyms]

Woohoo!

[@dazcman100]

Really useful and clear video. Very much appreciated.

[@GooseyVT]

I love the wide screen!!

[@DarrylSyms]

I’m glad someone appreciates it 😄🙌

[@7775Kevin]

Good job. Thanks for taking the time to do this

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks for sharing gratitude 🙂

[@Rogijimbex]

Excellent presentation. With that huge monitor I would have liked the worksheet screens to be much more visible...they were quite small. The only song that was easily seen was your Pudding song toward the end. However you're an excellent presenter. Thanks

[@PressuredSpeechBand]

Been using Guitar pro for years to play cover music. Now it's time to use it to write our bands music. Looking forward to learning how to compose music. Nice lesson!

[@EnriqueRojasmusic]

You will find it very useful! And the best part is that you will always have a record of how you composed the music even if years go by.

[@papaolaimayum3857]

Can I learn cob kalmah keyboard from this app

[@marcelobelloni8754]

Great tool! I still use the guitar pro 5, its a classic

[@DarrylSyms]

Guitar Pro 5 is where it started for me too! 🙌 Except back in the day I had no idea how helpful it could be 💁‍♂️

[@allboutthemojo]

@@DarrylSyms are the guitar tabs of popular artists Metallica, Tool, Ac DC, GNR, Zztop etc mostly available through the online community or are they copying protected and one has to look for them elsewhere and then import them into Guitar Pro?

[@DarrylSyms]

Of course, those tabs are everywhere in abundance. So easy to acquire

[@allboutthemojo]

@@DarrylSyms through guitar pro itself or other sources? The tool only accepts guitar pro format tabs right?

[@DarrylSyms]

MySongBook (Guitar Pro) will have them, or you can find them all over the net for free. The program accepts guitar pro format, and power tab format, as far as I’m aware

[@cassidymchugh8287]

imagine having a glorious wide monitor like that :O

[@DarrylSyms]

It’s very useful for video and audio editing 🙂 I got it second hand off the Facebook market (like most things on my desk) ✌️

[@cassidymchugh8287]

@@DarrylSyms it even makes reading the tabs so much easier!

[@DarrylSyms]

Totally!

[@iamtorrego]

Having the chance to see the notes on the fretboard or piano is one of the best visual aid any software can have, but interestingly didn’t see it here.

[@DarrylSyms]

I personally disagree, but I’m sure it’s possible to pull up a Fretboard on GP for this visual aid 🤔 Don’t quote me on this, but I feel like it’s a pretty standard feature across the industry 🤷‍♂️

[@musicgogga9828]

Hi Darryl, I just popped you a DM on Facebook regarding the discount code, Thanks for the great video!

[@frannelk]

Very cool vid, you gave me a good intro to the software and its possibilities, Thanks.

[@DarrylSyms]

You’re welcome 🙂

[@outdatedgear5036]

Guitarpro helped me with site reading. I'll write out my practice pieces and take the tabs away.

[@djdeleon_]

Thanks for this tutorial! Can I ask how can I set my Guitar Pro to Capo 1?

[@carloscalera8110]

Fantastic and much clear tutorial. I am a keyboard player and wish to know where do you know of a piece of software with quite similar comprehensive features designed for piano/keyboards as Guitar Pro. Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks

[@grotemutn]

Great vid, subbed

[@BillWardWesternLights]

Great Lesson! I am ready to move from struggling writing lines or music on paper to accurately documenting jazz lines, songs on sheet music and being able practice with the music hearing it, making changes etc. Making sure I am consistent with the timing. I am assuming playing backing tracks to practice over should be very easy to do. What is the big plus or advantage for this software compared to some of the larger, well known free software programs like Muscscore? Can Lyrics be incorporated into final sheet music products? Lyrics in conjunction with the chord changes are very helpful for me in learning a song. Thanks in advance!

[@DarrylSyms]

Lyrics can be added, but I’m not familiar with the alternative software

[@WorldvsTruth]

As cool as this feature is, how about importing a piece or selection of recorded music e.g. a fast guitar solo, in order to slow it down in a loop (measure by measure, if desired) without changing the pitch? That is what I'd like to do, including have the ability to slow down my own solos, either for analysis or as an instructional tool. Please tell me this is in the works. Please and thank you. Have a blessed day. 🙏🏽😊

[@DarrylSyms]

Shoot them an email with your suggestion! I like it 👌😎

[@WorldvsTruth]

@@DarrylSyms I shall do that. Cheers. 😊

[@dovane9932]

Great but i have a primary question. Do we have to use a midi keyboard to write something on guitar pro or is it possible to do it with a guitar?

[@DarrylSyms]

A midi keyboard? Absolutely not, a regular qwerty keyboard is what I use. Of course you can’t just plug your guitar in and it magically knows what you’re playing, but you can purchase “midi guitars” or something similar which will indeed input notes directly from guitar to program. But then I’m not sure GPX can “live record” 🤷‍♂️ You’d have to ask them 👍

[@embracingaeons8488]

GP7.5 is probably better, but I've been using GP5 for so long now that I don't think I'll ever upgrade - I just know the software too well at this point haha

[@mayzon]

I also still use gp5. Best version ever

[@benwagner4741]

@@mayzon is there significant difference between them?

[@mayzon]

@@benwagner4741 To be honest, im not the best person to tell you that. My preference is just because im more used to GP5 sound and interface, and it works almost perfectly for everything that I need. I use most for practicing and composing, and I really don't care if it sounds good on the software. Even on 7.5 version its lame, in my opinion.

[@ElVagabundo777]

is it possible to remove one recurring event in an entire piece? for example, remove the right hand fingering

[@ourclarioncall]

Is that a 34” widescreen? I’m thinking about getting one and using guitar pro to teach guitar students. But maybe a different size monitor would be better for reading the guitar pro tab 🤔

[@DarrylSyms]

Something like that yeah. It’s cool for some things 👌

[@Rover2011Mr]

Hi Darryl......would you please hel me? I´m trying to make a Score for Guitar ensemble. 4-5 Guitars. And I do not know how to do it. I´ll apreciate it......thanks a lot. Rob

[@ourclarioncall]

TWO QUESTIONS 1.What colour (color ) is the staff (stave) lines when you print them out ? They look a bit grey 2. Can you change the thickness of the staff lines ? It looks a bit thin to me THANKS !

[@DarrylSyms]

Black, and yes, in the settings you can change fonts, size etc (but they’re really not as thin as they may seem)

[@AntonioFardella]

Nice video, excellent presentation. Just a question: why should I buy Guitar Pro instead to use Muse Score (open source)?

[@DarrylSyms]

Never heard of Muse Score, but I'd be almost certain that GP is far superior. It truly rules!

[@GitarGitaran1]

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

[@DarrylSyms]

I just put an X beneath the note, and then an arrow showing the direction 🤷‍♂️

[@spotted556]

Can you insert a fingerstyle song in that software? any fingerstyle song?

[@DarrylSyms]

If it’s a Guitar Pro file, then you can insert whatever you want

[@bhattimustansar64]

GUITAR PRO

[@daveevans3380]

Great video, thanks. I've been using GP for over a year but never notices the highlight and loop function until now. I was inserting repeats in the score to do this, not perfect! Is there any way to include bars of rest at the start of a score in the overall bar count? I play bass and often there are several rests before the bass comes in. So with 5 rests my second bar should be bar 6 but GP counts this as bar 2. Confusing when I am working with other musicians.

[@DarrylSyms]

Sure there is, just hit R on the keyboard and make sure it’s a whole rest 👌

[@daveevans3380]

@@DarrylSyms Hi Daryl, try starting a score with 5 bars of rest, not writing 5 bars but suing the repeat symbol x5. You will see the bar count not respect these 5 bars.

[@DarrylSyms]

Don’t use the percentage symbol, use the repeat bar function and it will ask you how many times you want to repeat. If not, click the button next to it to manually input the repetition info

[@SjaakShirly6559]

I love GP 7.5! Thanks for explaining. Can I ask a question about notating pick strokes. I can't find it in the manual but is the only option op notating them ABOVE the tab and not below the tab? Thanks in advance.

[@DarrylSyms]

I’m not familiar with how or why you would want picking notation below. I’ve never seen that anywhere before, so I suspect it’s a feature that’s not available 😬

[@SjaakShirly6559]

@@DarrylSyms see kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4uZXpyFpMeDaMU at 21:23m where Marcel talks about adding the pick strokes notation to the TAB.

[@cassidymchugh8287]

you're right about some free tabs not being accurate. they're made to have deliberate mistakes to avoid paying copyright royalties. that's why it's best to get tabs from guitar pro's mysongbook.com where they have a professional transcriber team and it is 100% legal and royalties are paid to the artists. it costs $3 USD/month but they are accurate and complete. it's definitely worth it.

[@DarrylSyms]

Not necessarily, most tabs you’ll find on UltimateGuitar are not very accurate because they’re tabbed by novice guitar players. Most people don’t have the patience, ear, and attention to detail to pull transcribing off accurately. Though I don’t blame them as such because they don’t get paid for it 💁‍♂️ my songbook is cool though ✌️ Not that I’ve tried it, but I’ve heard good things about it!

[@cassidymchugh8287]

Darryl Syms yes true that’s obviously a big part of it but copyright is also a factor. The owners of Ultimate guitar got sued or almost got sued years ago because they weren’t paying artists royalties. But obviously novice guitarists are the more prominent reason these days

[@DarrylSyms]

Interesting!

[@GregJay]

I love your ambient light what is that? It looks like ultra violet? I am trying to decide if this is best or ultimate guitar?

[@DarrylSyms]

Thanks! It's just an Aputure light dome off the right of the frame. Guitar Pro is the king 🤴

[@SYguitar]

兄弟 你的胡子特别帅~!

[@DenySmashinton]

Thanks bro. Why does it say "this voucher has already been used"

[@DarrylSyms]

That’s strange - there’s no restricted amount of uses 🤔 Drop the friendly team an email with a screenshot and the coupon code, and they’ll sort you out pronto 😊

[@TheTimeProphet]

Can you turn off the standard notation? I have no use for it.

[@DarrylSyms]

Yup, easily

[@chickenoncheese]

Any tips on how to use the fade in fade out feature? Thanks

[@garrythompson4132]

I look forward to the day when you can play your guitar and the software would tab the notes as you play.

[@DarrylSyms]

It already exists 👀 But I have no idea how good it is

[@goldenultra]

Midi guitar? Expensive.

[@perryfenton8569]

does this program annotate as I play.. for example if I was just playing Can't you see by the Marshall Tucker Band on my guitar will it write out the tab or sheet music for me Thanks. (if it doesn't do this any idea what program I can use??)

[@DarrylSyms]

I’m no expert at that, you’ll have to contact them. I don’t think any program will do that unless you have a midi instrument. For example, you should be able to do this with a keyboard or a midi guitar.

[@SF_Curious]

Can I record my guitar solo on a track and then convert that audio file to a tab?

[@DarrylSyms]

Nope, you cannot convert MP3 to MIDI

[@paulmurphy7028]

Hi ...simple question please ..Can you tell me how to make a loop in Guitar pro 7 please? Thank you

[@DarrylSyms]

Highlight the section you want to loop, and then hit spacebar to play

[@garrythompson4132]

Darryl, I went to Guitar Pros website but they are very limited on contact information. That being said, I have many song titles from earlier versions, do you know if the newest version will play the older song formats? Thanks, Garry.

[@DarrylSyms]

I’m sure you can contact them via social media too. I think there’s plenty of opportunity 👌 The latest version will indeed read tabs from all older versions

[@walterhacon3923]

Hi Darryl, cant seem to get the promo code to work, any tips, thanks, Walter.

[@DarrylSyms]

DARRYL20 ? Works for me, I just tested it! 😀

[@adamreidwilsonco]

How did you add those great little text boxes above the individual exercises?

[@DarrylSyms]

Just using the text tool from the left panel, bottom section (shortcut: “T” - I think) 👍

[@adamreidwilsonco]

Darryl Syms Thank you so much!

[@markavery6124]

Hi I’ve got a question about transcribing chords in a chord melody situation where the melody note is a quarter note for example but the lower notes ring out i.e. half notes. I can’t figure out how to notate properly. I can only get them to be all quarter notes or half notes . Any help much appreciated. Mark Avery

[@DarrylSyms]

It’s super simple Mark, you just need to adjust the length of the notes by clicking the note length on the left Toolbar, or hitting +/- on your keyboard.

[@edigabrieli7864]

I play guitar and flute and I think it may suit me good for both, but I have a question can this program transpose keys and can it print?

[@DarrylSyms]

Yes and yes! 🙌

[@Berkner80]

Anybody out there with an honest review of Guitar Pro 7.5? I plan on getting it probably but I will review it and will not hold back what I don't like about it. I have GP6 right now and it is just awful at dealing with cross platform MIDI files.

[@DarrylSyms]

You’re suggesting that I’m not being honest? What do you actually want to hear? This video was made completely voluntary, I got nothing for this. Go ahead and make your own review sharing all of the things that you don’t like. I genuinely love the program and have no concerns at all. I’m far from an expert at using the program, but as an average user I encounter no issues. Feel free to raise any concerns with them directly 👍

[@Berkner80]

@@DarrylSyms I would like to see creation of a MIDI file then trying to import it into Cubase or vice versa. With GP6 I've tried to create a MIDI file in GP6 and also in Cubase but when I load it into GP6 or Cubase all the notes are wrong. Like to try the demo of GP 7.5 but I'm sure the demo will not allow me to save a MIDI to try it out. Like to try a save MIDI files and go back and forth between Cubase and GP. Otherwise GP is pretty useless to me.

[@Berkner80]

@@DarrylSyms some features are nice but was really wanting the import/export MIDI file function to work well.

[@Berkner80]

@@DarrylSyms I have the trial version of GP 7.5, will play with it this week. I also played around with my GP6 last night and looks like when creating MIDI files in GP6 you need to have Concert Tone selected then it will export with the correct notes.

[@klenovicaklen657]

Songsterr does the same, with small monthly fee.

[@itsbailosmydudes4517]

Hey mate, thanks for the video. Just was wondering, as someone who is a relative beginner, is this still a program that would be useful to support learning the guitar? It seems like it would be, local guitar teacher suggested getting it, just looking to get some additional advice! Thanks in advance.

[@DarrylSyms]

Absolutely! If you don’t have a teacher motivating you and giving you songs to learn (with tabs) every week, then GP will do you the world of good. Not necessarily for transcribing (at your level), but more-so for learning. You’ll find tabs for almost anything scattered all over the net or in GP’s “MySongBook”. Would definitely recommend 🙂 It’ll also help with your timing and speed. 10/10 genuinely recommend 🙂

[@ashiz5906]

has anyone ever tried to make a complete song using guitar pro... i did that with guitar pro 5..

[@DarrylSyms]

Yep! You did 😛 I’m sure many others have too, though I wouldn’t recommend it for many reasons. It’s a great transcription and learning tool, but I think composing in GP can limit your options

[@ashiz5906]

@@DarrylSyms yes you are correct.. it was around 10 year ago. guitar pro was the thing that get me into composing music .. it used to be fun transcribing songs.

[@djandrewification]

Born of Osiris - Behold was written completely on Guitar pro before even being played on the guitar. Guitar pro is easy to work with if you were brought up on it and are naturally creative.

[@ChristianVazquez12]

I've written plenty of songs half on guitar half on guitar pro

[@rahmattavip8631]

Why don't you tell us how to use the software? How to set up the midi

[@DarrylSyms]

Because this is a demo, not a tutorial or “how to” 👍

[@BetoLefevre]

Great ! I love your video ! BTW, I can't find the link for the discount you've mentioned ... do you have it yet? Thanks !

[@DarrylSyms]

Read the description 🙂

[@steelandbanjo]

@@DarrylSyms It does not appear to be in the description. That's why we're asking about it...

[@DarrylSyms]

I don’t understand how you can miss the instruction, providing you actually read the description? 😅

[@BetoLefevre]

​@@DarrylSyms this is because that part of the description is sometimes hidden depending on the browser

[@rogerdorfield8233]

Can this program auto transcribe to sheet music what I play on my guitar when connect to GP 7.5 via a sound card ?

[@DarrylSyms]

No

[@vincentedelmonte4980]

Im using the program the electrical instruments and guitars sounds are ok unfortunately concerning the classical instruments non electrical are very poor you need to improve that area

[@DarrylSyms]

You’re talking about the RSE? I personally don’t really care how great the instruments sound - it’s transcription software, I’m not trying to compose an album on it 🙂

[@rescuedogsbandct9620]

I'm looking for software that I can import a song and get keys and tab. Is there something like this available? Thanks

[@DarrylSyms]

Nope, and you’d be paying a lot to get a comprehensive library of accurate tabs. Google will tell you what key most songs are in though

[@daviddahl8562]

I had guitar pro along long time ago and I used the speed trainer a lot. I also have Musescore which does not have the speed trainer. The work I put on musescore can I transfer that to guitar pro.

[@DarrylSyms]

Not sure David, you'll have to ask the Guitar Pro team :)

[@samapanbhadury8568]

Can I buy the guitar pro for a single computer?

[@DarrylSyms]

Yes..

[@martindke]

can you export your sheet music to midi?

[@DarrylSyms]

Yes

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i guess logic pro has all this and more?

[@DarrylSyms]

Absolutely not? Logic Pro is recording software, that’s like saying jeans do the same thing as shorts and more 😝

[@jeffreyrivers1983]

How much is the music sheets average priced?

[@DarrylSyms]

Huh? They’re not? I’ve no idea what you’re referring to. GP allows you to creat sheets, and you can download sheets all over the internet from $0 and beyond (but I can’t speak on behalf of all third party sheet makers). GP have their own ‘MySongBook’ which isn’t charged per sheet. Look into it 👍

[@ZachHord]

It said the promo code is no longer available :(

[@DarrylSyms]

Weird! Let me get it updated 🙂 Drop me a message on Facebook so I can send you an updated one!

[@edigabrieli7864]

How do you erase a note?

[@DarrylSyms]

Press backspace

[@urielbernal7654]

Link For Mac?

[@DarrylSyms]

It’s the same link

[@mcleanblades9234]

Amazing product. How do you scam music into it?

[@DarrylSyms]

Everyone loves a good piece of scam music 😆 You can download tabs all over the internet, or import MusicXML files. There’s countless options 👌

[@ElVagabundo777]

question .. is it possible to hide sheet music and leave only the TAB for printing? I am looking for and do not know where this function could be. You can do that with the guitar pro 5

[@DarrylSyms]

Yes it is

[@MtlDeath]

lil better n learning a song off a (A)cassette tape, stop, quick rewind, play, repeat 20x.. tape gets eatin.. 20 minutes tryin to pull it out of the player and getting it back in the cassette with a pencil. Writing songs? ya play it, record with with a .. you guessed it. Give it to the band to learn the song.. refer to fig(A)

[@herrunsinn774]

Would you like to try that again.... only this time in English? 😨

[@MtlDeath]

@@herrunsinn774 i cant help your illiteracy, sorry

[@slowpoke7888]

Wiiide screen.

[@DarrylSyms]

😎

[@loooli.7396]

the guitar pro 7 tabs are for free or do i have to buy them ? can this software read older tabs like gp 3 or gp 4 ?

[@DarrylSyms]

No and yes. Tabs are all over the internet. Most are free, some get sold. GP7+ can read all previous versions of the tabs such as GP4 etc

[@davolthe1261]

Yes it can read anything from gp1 to gp6, if by any means won't read older files there is a built in "batch converter" in GP 7.5 which convert all older tabs(gp1-6) to GP7 format but i didn't really need that for now as GP7.5 usually reads all files without conversion to gp7 format.

[@miguelrico4338]

where is the discount code?

[@DarrylSyms]

Read the description 👍

[@steelandbanjo]

@@DarrylSyms We did...its not there.

[@DarrylSyms]

steelandbanjo no you didn’t 😂 Read the Paragraph under “DESCRIPTION”

[@miguelrico4338]

Darryl Syms worst KZbinr ever

[@DarrylSyms]

Aww thanks Miguel 💛

[@simonlloyd7557]

This guy has 75 accents.

[@DarrylSyms]

😂

[@skip777]

Coupon code below ?......looked no code....oh ok....go to facebook page.....no code....probably on a page well known to you but damned if most of us can find it.....could you not do it this way....i know its marketing but i for one.... representing thousands..... could do without the run around.....We took the time to listen to your video......by the way. The videos i have watched of yours are top notched...Great work...looking firward to getting the caged instruction......ever paraglide?

[@DarrylSyms]

Perhaps you overlooked the very clear instruction, written in the description of this video, that says “DM me on FB for the coupon code”? There’s no runaround necessary, given that the instructions are quite clear. I’ll wait for your DM (message) 👍 Im glad you enjoy watching my videos anyhow, thanks for stopping by!

[@TheRealGuitarGamer]

Rocksmith is miles better than this

[@DarrylSyms]

Uh, no it’s not? They’re totally different products! 😂 Rocksmith is a game that you play along with, and Guitar Pro is a transcription tool to CREATE and read tabs for a completely different market space

[@stabMyFaceOff]

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