If you want to learn to play guitar, you will occasionally need to write your own guitar tab. It can be done using a text editor but it is a long job. There are free and paid guitar tab editing programs available that can allow you to write the tabs and play them back as MIDI files. TuxGuitar is one of the best examples of this kind of tab editor, and it’s free. This video gives you a little info about Tuxguitar:
For $19.95, at gootar.com, you can buy a six-pack of music notation tools consisting of a tab generator with sound, a guitar chord generator, a tab splicer for joining tabs, a program that makes a list of chords from any scale, a blank chord chart generator, and a piano chord finder with sound.
If you don’t need to hear the tab played back, go to the tab generator at The Guitar Files for a simple and quick tab writer.
I should also mention Easy Tab Maker Pro 4.31 which writes guitar tab as you play. You plug your guitar into your computer and play. While you are playing, the program analyzes the sound to convert into tab form the notes you were playing and where your fingers were placed. This is the kind of program that takes some of the grunt work out of learning to play guitar.
For those who can read standard music notation, Noteflight is dedicated to reinventing the way that people create, share and use written music. It edits, displays and plays back music notation in your browser, integrated in an online library of musical scores that anyone can publish, link to, or embed.
The aims of Noteflight are to make it easy to create and share written music online. The interface is very user-friendly, allowing musical scores to be linked to and bookmarked just like any other web pages. Musical scores can be embedded in web documents, like any image or video.
You can check out the site at noteflight.com or watch the video:
This video shows you some websites that will help you with tuning your guitar:
Spilwerk.com is a another guitar lessons site with a lot going on. There are lessons on guitar tab, intervals, chords, scales and modes plus an article on building left hand power. This site also has a range of guitar learning tools.
At guitarscholar.co.uk is a tutorial on the major triad, an essential part of your education about guitar chords.
