Guitar Transcribing Masterclass
Added 2024-12-26 02:18:01 +0000 UTCIt's one thing being able to play guitar well, but if your goal is to become the best musician you can possibly be then you also need to understand how to write and read music!
"Transcription" is the action of writing down music into tab or standard notation, and is unfortunately a skill that many guitarists have a huge gap in knowledge in. Whether your aim is to immortalize your own music, or to transcribe your favorite solos and riffs by other artists, it's super important that you spend some honing this skill!
So in today's masterclass I give you a thorough rundown of Guitar Pro, the industry standard software for guitar transcribing, and show you all of the tools necessary to create pro-quality tabs. It doesn't matter if you don't use Guitar Pro specifically - pretty much everything mentioned in this video is transferrable to other apps.
Good luck and please do let me know if you have any questions!
0:00 Intro
1:02 Getting started
1:42 Song and track settings
3:48 Main control panel
5:59 Layout settings
7:20 Track manager and timeline
8:26 Notation control panel
10:45 How to write notes out
18:27 Rests
19:54 Dotted notes
21:34 Triplets and tuplets
24:26 Tied notes
27:25 Introducing next segment
27:56 Accents
28:26 Staccato
28:52 Let-ring
29:37 Palm muting
29:56 Dead notes
30:40 Harmonics
32:25 Bends
34:35 Whammy bar
36:05 Vibrato
37:05 Pick scrapes
37:45 Slides
41:51 Hammer-ons, pull-offs and hammer-ons-from-nowhere
43:53 Tapping
44:46 Thumping
45:05 Fingering directions
46:32 Strum directions
47:33 Picking directions
48:05 Grace notes
49:46 Trills
51:00 Fade-ins and fade-outs
51:30 Chords
52:15 Text directions
52:34 Tempo and time signature automations
54:09 Repeats
55:19 Adding extra tracks
57:29 Markers
Comments
Great feedback, thanks man!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-05 23:11:48 +0000 UTCIf your doing these kinds of tutorials again Bradley Highly recommend zooming up to 200% so people can see what your doing. I could follow as I have guitar pro 8 but for people who don't use it them may not be familiar. I always zoom it up to 200% when writing music lessons for my own students at home or while teaching parts of songs plus much easier to read when teaching online too.
Eamonn Ryan
2025-01-05 05:55:19 +0000 UTCGreat things to add, thanks dude!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-02 19:23:48 +0000 UTCPlan to do this yes!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-02 19:23:26 +0000 UTCI've used guitar pro for a few years now, it's easily the best software I have for learning guitar, I use it to learn exercises, songs, anything really. Two things I will add, if you delete a note from the score it will also create a rest, which is fun for messing with different syncopation in the part. Also 8 has a feature where you can import audio files so you can import the audio of whatever you're working on so you can play it back and check things within guitar pro itself, you can play it simultaneously or separately without the tab I believe.
Metal Dad87
2025-01-02 02:37:28 +0000 UTCYes! Video on how to transcribe drums in GP please!
LC
2025-01-01 19:12:39 +0000 UTCDefinitely gonna do that at some point!
Bradley Hall
2024-12-30 15:03:19 +0000 UTCGreat idea for a tutorial! Will definitely be putting this to use. Thanks, Bradley!
Mitch M
2024-12-26 17:27:35 +0000 UTCVery useful. I've been using Guitar Pro for a while now and still learned a handful of new things, thank you. Would love to see tutorial showing your process for how you actually transcribe a solo for a lesson, where to find isolated solos, how to slow it down, what to listen for etc.
Trooper Evolved
2024-12-26 04:34:27 +0000 UTC
