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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
02/13/2007 5:58 am
If I were you I'd just take a coupla hours and learn it yourself. It's so simple it's laughable.
Up until recently, around here, we did all the tabs by hand.
For instance, I'd keep a blank tab in a clipboard on my hard drive:

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... like that, and then just add in the notes. It only takes a couple of minutes. When you've been doing it a few years, you can breeze through a tab in no time. The easy part is there's no timing or strumming information necessary. It's basically just the notes and some general directions on how to play them.

Now however, we're switching over to GuitarPro software. Basically, it's a little slower but you get a very pro looking tab with notation and a lot more strumming and timing information. The good part is you can also listen to your tab using the built in player so you can play around with the notation until you get it perfectly in time, and end up with a .jpg or .pdf score that can be read by other musicians. It's about $60 and takes a while to learn it, but once you've done a dozen tabs, it's relatively simple.