Getting Started Tutorials Manual MIDI and Audio
To display a track with a guitar tablature staff, select the Track Display dialog from the Display menu and set the clef to 6 String Tab.
You can also enter a 6 String Tab clef symbol at the beginning of the track to display the track with a guitar tablature staff. (While in the Score Editor, select the 6 String Tab clef from the Clefs palette, select the pencil tool from the Tools palette and enter a 6 String Tab clef at the beginning of the track.)
When you have set your staff to display with a 6 String Tab clef, your track will appear as a wide six-line staff. Your notes are represented as fret numbers on the appropriate string in traditional guitar tablature notation.
To enter new notes, first select the pencil tool. Click and hold down the left mouse button. Move the mouse to the position on the string where you want to enter your note. If you let go the left mouse button, the note is entered as fret 0 on the line (representing the appropriate string) your mouse is pointing at. To change the number of the fret, press the UP and DOWN arrow keys while you keep the left mouse button down. When you let go the left mouse button, the note is entered as the number you've chosen on the string you've chosen.
For example, to enter a note on the second fret of the highest string, click and hold the left mouse button on the highest string. Press the UP arrow key twice so that the number 2 appears. Now let go the left mouse button.
To move a note from one string to another, use the NS tool (the second tool from the end in the toolbar). When you grab and move a note up and down, the fret number will move from string to string. The pitch of the note stays the same as you move the note from string to string - the fret number will change to reflect this. The exception is when the note could not be played on the string to which you've moved the note. In this case the string is made open and the pitch of the note is changed to reflect this.
To change the number of the fret, choose the NS tool. After you select the note by clicking and holding the left mouse button over the fret number, press the UP and DOWN arrow keys while you keep the left mouse button down. When you let go the left mouse button, the note has the fret number you've chosen on the string you've chosen.
Open, save and print files and create tracks
Set the names for your instrument's patches (or programs)
Change the play/mute/solo status of a track
Open, save and print files and create tracks
Enter a tablature chord symbol
Enter different types of barlines
Change a note's pitch by semitones
Change the enharmonic spelling of a note
Make sure notes display with their entered durations
Split a track onto a treble and bass clef
Put notes in a split track on either the treble or the bass staff
Change the vertical position of tablature chords
Change how barlines are connected in a score
Change fonts for titles, lyrics, text or symbols
Change the display of bar numbering
Change the display of page numbering
Change the quantization with which music is displayed
Transpose the display of notes in a track
Change the way notes are grouped together
Change the number of bars per line
Change the number of staves per page
Change the way rests are displayed
Change the way ties are displayed
Change the direction of stems and beams
Display independent voices in a bar on the same staff
Change the display of drum notes
Synchronize with another sequencer as slave
Synchronize with another sequencer as master
Synchronize with a tape device
Add your score to a video or file soundtrack
Export an audio file using the Audio Mixer
Select a sound bank on a GS Standard instrument
Check whether notes are within an instrument's range
See what events are in your tracks
Add composer notes to your composition