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1. 45 References 46 Drop Down Menus 46 Keyboard Shortcuts 53 Index 57 User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 1 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Getting started Installation A Minimal requirements depending on your Operating System 1 Windows XP Vista Win7 or Ubuntu officially supported GNU Linux distribution Minimal Requirements MIDI Playback Administrator s rights for installation Internet connection for activation Intel Pentium 4 type processor 1 GB RAM with 256 MB free HD space Soundcard DVD ROM drive Minimal requirements with the RSE Realistic Sound Engine Administrator s rights for installation Internet connection for activation Intel Core 2 Duo
2. 8 Writing a Score 8 Creating a New Score 8 Adding Tracks 9 Organizing Bars 10 Adding Notes to the Score 11 Inserting Events 14 Adding Symbols 15 Adding Lyrics 23 Adding Sections 24 Cut Copy Past
3. Lower one semitone Accentuations and interpretation WINDOWS MACINTOSH Suggested note o O Accented note Strongly accented note Staccato Tenuto _ _ Legato H H Let Ring I I Palm Mute on the note P P Palm Mute on the beat Ctrl P P Effects WINDOWS MACINTOSH Muffled note x X Natural harmonic Y Y Artificial harmonic Alt Y Y Bend B B Vibrato W W Vibrato left hand light V V Vibrato left hand heavy Alt V V User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 54 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Vibrato right hand light W W Vibrato right hand heavy Alt W W Accent Fingering WINDOWS MACINTOSH Legato slide S S Shift slide Alt S S Tapping left hand HO PO H H Tap Slap Pop Ctrl Pickstroke down D D Pickstroke up U U Move down tab Alt Move up tab Alt Brushed chords WINDOWS MACINTOSH Brush down Ctrl D D Brush up Ctrl U U Arpeggio down Ctrl D D Arpeggio up Ctrl U U Rasgueado R R Ornaments WINDOWS MACINTOSH Grace note before the beat G G Grace note on the beat Alt G G Trill N N Electric effects WINDOWS MACINTOSH Fade in lt lt Fade o
4. See Cut Copy Paste See Organizing Bars Voices gt Selects one of the voices or the multi voice mode for editing See Adding Notes to the Score Go to Opens a window to bring you directly to a selected bar See Adding Sections Automations gt Edit Automations Opens the automation window to insert automations into the track See Inserting Events Variations Lets you add an effect chain variation to the track See Sound Settings Track menu Add Adds an instrumental or percussion track to the score See Adding Tracks Delete Deletes the active track See Adding Tracks Move Up Moves the active track up the list See Adding Tracks Move down Moves the active track down the list See Adding Tracks Properties Opens the active track s Properties window See Creating a New Score See Adding Tracks User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 48 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Bar menu Insert Bar Inserts a bar before the current bar See Organizing Bars Delete Bar Deletes the bar s selected See Organizing Bars Clef Opens the Clef window See Adding Symbols Key Signature Opens the Key Signature window See Adding Symbols Time Signature Opens the Time Signature window See Adding Symbols Triplet Feel Opens the Triplet Feel window See Adding Symbols Free tim
5. Internet telephone or postal mail In that case a document will be included in the software s package with instructions to access that support Please note Technical support for any given version of Guitar Pro is guaranteed for one full year after the end of the distribution of this version User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 4 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Overview Introduction Welcome into Guitar Pro Guitar Pro is a complete workshop for all guitarists beginning or advanced who wish to improve write music or simply use a virtual backing band Guitar Pro 6 supports all fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings guitars basses banjo mandolin and so on as well as all and any instruments that can be in your band or orchestra Here s what Guitar Pro offers you A complete yet user friendly multitrack tablature centered score editor for stringed instruments which includes all the usual symbols and specificities of those instruments Optimized screen display options and a powerful audio engine designed to yield faithful playback of the sounds and effects of all types of guitars as well as of a hundred other instruments bass strings piano drums etc from samples and modelized sounds of amps and effect units recorded in a professional studio Everyday tools for practice such as the tuner the cho
6. System layout 10 tablature 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 30 35 36 38 39 40 47 52 Tablatures 3 29 TablEdit 12 36 44 tapping 3 18 19 21 template 8 44 tempo 5 14 15 17 31 33 35 43 49 texts 6 7 27 Ties 12 17 time signature 5 9 10 13 15 49 Timer 3 22 47 52 tools 4 6 11 40 track 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 17 19 22 23 25 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 49 50 tracks 3 4 7 8 9 10 25 26 28 30 32 34 37 45 49 transposing tone 3 8 15 tremolo 20 21 48 tremolo bar 20 48 trill 20 21 48 triplet feel 9 triplets 5 12 tuner 3 4 43 49 tuning 3 4 6 7 9 27 38 40 43 turn 20 32 43 Undo Redo 3 13 Variations 14 31 45 vibrato 21 48 voices 3 13 17 26 45 49 54 Volume swell 19 Wah Wah 21 31 WAV Export 3 37 44 Windows 1 3 29 32 wizards 26 zoom 7 37
7. s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 43 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Virtual Fretboard The fretboard offers many features It can be used to view the notes of the score to enter them or to visualize the scales To activate the fretboard use the View gt Fretboard menu The fretboard automatically adjusts to the active track settings The number of strings and the position of the capo are set by the track settings If you change the active track the fretboard will automatically update to reflect the new track To add a new note to the score you just have to click on the fretboard To delete a note just click on it The lt gt buttons allow you to navigate in the score It is thus possible to enter the whole score with the mouse Tip By right clicking on the fretboard you can capture a note and then slide it to the right thus avoiding the use of the button gt Display Options The Show field lets you select what you wish to see on the fretboard Show Beat to see only the notes on the selected beat Show Beat Bar to see the notes of the selected beat and the notes of the active bar Show Beat Next Beat to see the notes of the selected beat and the notes of the next beat Show Beat Scale to see the notes of the selected beat and the notes of the scale selected in the scale tool Display
8. Empty the content of bar 10 delete the notes Follow the same principle to insert several bars Tip Guitar Pro allows you to Cut Copy Paste from one file onto another as well as from a track onto another outside of percussions Guitar Pro will then transpose the notes and place the fingers Si your copy from a pitched onto a percussion track Guitar Pro will copy the rhythm and replace the notes with rests User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 26 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Using Wizards Guitar Pro includes many wizards to help you work faster when creating your scores These wizards are available from the Tools menu Note Related Wizards Let Ring Options Sets the Let Ring attribute for each string over a selected range of bars or notes Palm Mute Options Sets the Palm Mute attribute for each string over a selected range of bars or notes Using the wizards can save you lots of time For example in one step you can let Guitar Pro know that you want the Let Ring function turned on for all of the notes on the four highest strings Wizards for Organizing the Score You can use these Wizards when you compose after you have imported a track or while you are capturing notes in standard to get the best possible arrangement of the tablature Bar Arranger Checks and arranges bars according to the notes durations
9. See WAV Export Export gt PNG See PNG Export gt PDF See PDF Score Information Opens the Score Information window See CreateNewScore Stylesheet See Stylesheet Print See Printing a Score See Organizing Bars Preferences Opens the Preferences window for the software Under the Guitar Pro menu if you re on Mac Language Lets you choose which language you want to have Guitar Pro in Quit Shuts down the software entirely Under the Guitar Pro menu if you re on Mac User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 47 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Edit menu Undo Cancels the very last action See Navigating around the Score Redo Repeats the very last action Cut Cuts notes or bars on one or several tracks See Cut Copy Paste Copy Copies notes or bars on one or several tracks See Cut Copy Paste Paste Pastes the notes or bars just copied onto one or several tracks depending on the type of Cut or Copy done See Cut Copy Paste See Organizing Bars Cut Multi Track Cuts entire bars from every track at once See Cut Copy Paste Copy Multi Track Copies entire bars from every track at once See Cut Copy Paste Special Paste Opens a window allowing for special pasting of the cut or copied notes or bars See Cut Copy Paste Select all Select all notes of the current voice on the active track
10. User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 21 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com This notation lightens the score because alternated notes are not displayed Tremolo Picking The tremolo picking effect consists of playing the same note over and over very fast As for the trill this effect is displayed with only a single note Left Hand Vibrato Left Hand Vibrato consists in quickly moving the left hand finger for a right handed person on the string The movement creates a variation in pitch The vibrato effect is represented by a little wave above the tablature and lasts until the note ends Wide Vibrato Tremolo Bar The wide vibrato is stronger than the simple vibrato and is obtained by using the vibrato bar This effect is applied to the whole chord The wide vibrato is displayed as a big wave above the tablature and ends as soon as a new note is played Wah Wah The Wah Wah is an effects pedal Possible options are On Off and Opened Closed The Wah Wah will affect playback only if you re using the RSE and you have placed a Wah Wah pedal in your effect chain See Sound settings Arpeggio The arpeggio consists in playing every note in a chord one by one The Arpeggio window lets you adjust the speed as well as the delay in playing An Arpeggio Down goes from the lowest to the highest pitched string An Arpeggio Up goes from the highest
11. It now consists in a better displayed ever more readable score accompanied by 6 retractable panels that allow the user to instantaneously access all of the tools he she needs for editing sound tuning and adding chords and texts to the score This new panel based presentation together with a generally more dynamic design constitutes the Guitar Pro 6 signature The tabs to the left allow you pull out the six panels or universes 1 The Edition panel Contains all of the symbols you need to write a score in standard as well as tablature notation or in rhythmical slash notation You just need to click on a button for the corresponding element or attribute to be affected to the note or notes you have selected For the symbols demanding some precisions a dialog window opens up for you to select the desired symbol Read Adding symbols 2 The Instrument panel On this panel you can adjust the various parameters for the track tuning sound bank capo humanization etc 3 The Effects panel This panel allows you to attribute all kinds of effects to the current track as well as save your effect chains Guitar Pro offers over 70 effect and amp modelisations See Sound settings 4 The Mastering panel On this panel you can work on the signal coming out of the mixer with effects such as compression equalization and reverberation See Sound settings 5 The Chords panel This panel creates a chord
12. Voice 1 2 3 4 Ctrl 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Multivoice editing Ctrl M M Go to Ctrl G G Add an automation F10 F10 Track WINDOWS MACINTOSH User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 56 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Add Ctrl Ins Erase Ctrl Suppr Move up Ctrl Alt Move down Ctrl Alt Properties F6 F6 Navigation Playback WINDOWS MACINTOSH Beginning of bar Home End of bar End First bar Ctrl Home Last bar Ctrl End Previous section Alt Next section Alt Play Spacebar Spacebar Play from beginning Ctrl Spacebar Spacebar Rewind Ctrl Fast forward Ctrl Loop Speed trainer F9 F9 Display options WINDOWS MACINTOSH Full screen F11 U Multitrack F3 F3 Navigator Ctrl B B Instrument panel Ctrl F6 F6 Next tab Ctrl Tab Previous tab Ctrl Tab Settings WINDOWS MACINTOSH Score information F5 F5 Stylesheet F7 F7 Preferences F12 RSE Midi F2 F2 Tools WINDOWS MACINTOSH Check the bars lengths F4 F4 Move Swap voices Ctrl M M User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 57 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro co
13. gt Print to get a printout of your score Use the Stylesheet File gt Stylesheet to customize fonts page setup margins and all other page settings Importing Scores MIDI Import Definition MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface This is a protocol a universal language used to transmit digital musical information between computers synthesizers sequencers etc MIDI files include messages that can precisely describe a score notes rhythm tempo instrument etc MIDI files include messages that can accurately describe a score notes rhythms tempo instruments etc The audio quality of a MIDI file thus depends on what soundcard your computer is equipped with Go down File gt Import gt MIDI to import MIDI files into Guitar Pro Guitar Pro supports MIDI 0 and 1 formats ASCII Import Definition The ASCII format is a textual representation of tablature in which the lines are represented by dashes This format though not very attractive is the only one that allows you to share tablature without specific software It is commonly used on the Internet In general the file extension is txt or tab Guitar Pro is able to analyze the ASCII text files to extract the musical information It is possible to get a Guitar Pro score you can play modify or print from a symbolic score Guitar Pro imports notes rhythm effects and bar changes The import is done on the active track So it is possible to success
14. hear the attack of the pick on the note It can also create the impression of a reversed track Fade out This consists in turning the sound progressively off with the guitar s volume knob Volume swell This is a fade in leading directly into a fade out Grace note before the beat A Grace note is an ornamentation that consists in a very short note played before another one In Guitar Pro you can add a grace note for each string However it is not possible to set several grace notes on the same string A grace note does not count for the bar duration and for the rhythm display Grace note on the beat Same as a grace note before the beat except here it starts right on the beat thus slightly delaying the following beat Hammer On Pull Off The hammer on HO pull off PO is a transition between two notes played on the same string The first note is played normally while the second one is not played by the right hand for a right handed person For a hammer on the second note is higher than the first one and it is played by tapping the tip of your finger on the string while keeping the finger corresponding to the first note on the fretboard In the case of a pull off the second note is lower than the first and is played by taking the finger off the first note Guitar Pro determines automatically which effect is being used based on the notes values You can use the Stylesheet to customize th
15. in Guitar Pro is defined by the general MIDI norms and is not extensible unless you use some specific equipment Troubleshooting sound Depending on your soundcard you may hear some crackling sounds during playback If so please refer to the Windows display properties right click on your desktop then on Properties select the Settings tab click on Advanced select the Troubleshoot tab and turn Hardware acceleration to None Audio Settings Once you have set up your soundcard s in the Audio settings Sound gt Audio settings menu this reflects into the Instrument panel and can be modified there only if you re in MIDI mode Sound gt RSE menu F2 MIDI Output Guitar Pro can use up to 4 simultaneous MIDI ports You can assign a different MIDI device to each of those ports It is recommended to choose the best MIDI device for port 1 as this is set as the default one when a new track is created in Guitar Pro MIDI Capture You can capture notes via a MIDI instrument See Capturing Notes Ports and Channels In the Instrument panel you can choose which port and which channel s to use for each track By default Guitar Pro assigns 2 per track in order to better the effects playback the effects get played on a separate channel so as not to affect the notes bearing none If two tracks are using the same channels on the same port their audio properties instrument volume pan will be tied It is therefore
16. note 17 Global View 7 9 10 25 29 30 50 grace note 19 grace notes 3 Grand Staff 3 11 gruppetto 3 20 guitars 4 20 31 Hammer On 7 18 19 Humanization 3 import 4 12 35 36 installation 1 instrument 8 9 10 11 12 31 32 33 34 35 39 42 Instrument Panel 3 6 9 11 14 28 31 32 50 54 interface 3 6 inverted turn 20 jazz 3 key 5 8 11 12 15 20 40 42 key signature 5 8 15 20 Keyboard 11 29 30 40 42 50 51 language 3 31 35 36 44 legato 18 19 Let Ring 15 18 26 48 49 51 line break 11 Linux 1 2 3 lyrics 7 23 Lyrics Panel 3 7 23 Mac OS 1 2 mandolin 4 markers 24 29 master track 3 24 31 Mastering Panel 3 6 31 Metronome 33 43 49 MIDI 1 11 12 28 31 32 35 36 37 43 44 49 mode 3 4 7 8 10 13 15 16 28 30 32 37 39 42 43 45 46 50 mordent 3 20 mp3 37 multiple selection 3 13 17 25 37 46 Multirests 3 multitrack 4 11 30 53 multi voice 3 13 16 25 26 45 MusicXML 35 36 44 natural harmonic 18 New Features 3 7 Notation 3 5 10 12 15 27 52 n tuplets 3 12 16 nuance 17 octave 15 16 43 Operating System 1 orchestra 4 Ornaments 3 52 palm mute 20 panel 6 7 28 31 parchment 7 paste 3 7 23 25 53 PDF 37 44 percussion 10 25 28 45 piano 3 4 9 11 25 48 picking 3 21 48 pickstroke 21 pinch harmonic 18 pitch 11 1
17. on the Mac Setup dmg file and follow the instructions You will be asked to accept the terms of the license of use and will let you select the setup directory for the software You may create a shortcut to the software in the dock by dragging the Guitar Pro icon into it from the Applications GuitarPro directory 2 To start Guitar Pro To start Guitar Pro click on the Guitar Pro icon in the dock if you have created it or else double click on Applications GuitarPro 3 To uninstall Guitar Pro If you wish to uninstall Guitar Pro you simply need to drag the Applications GuitarPro directory to the trash E Updating Guitar Pro The updates for Guitar Pro 6 x are free for registered users of version 6 All you need to do is launch the Updater via the Help gt Launch Updater menu You can also directly download the updates and soundbanks from the www guitar pro com website User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 3 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com New Features The 6th version of Guitar Pro is a complete rewrite and is natively Windows Mac Linux compatible The interface has been entirely redesigned for better ergonomy to make writing and editing easier still and to offer a better display of the score Here is a list of the new features by categories Notation Double accidentals Free time bars Simple and do
18. values 25 50 75 and 100 Manual chord step thru Search the current track for the next chord and have it light up on the fretboard disabled during playback Manual note step thru Search the current track for the next beat and have it light up on the fretboard disabled during playback Skip to the Next bar Forward playback to the Next section Start to Play the track or Pause playback Rewind playback to the Previous section Rewind playback to the Start point beginning of score Switch between three Fretlight modes tablature chord or scale Switch the fretboard s Lighting on or off Switch between any of three Loop modes no loop simple loop speed trainer loop Control the Metronome Set up your Tempo on either of two values the current value is highlighted The list of actions that can be assigned to the footswitch Chord Diagram Window The fretboard of your Fretlight Guitar will light up any chord you select in the chord diagram dialog window as shown here on the picture MIDI Properties On a track assigned to a stringed instrument you may enable the force 11 16 option to assign the notes to 6 different MIDI channels one per string User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 37 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Printing Printing a Score Go down File
19. 2 4GHz 2 GB RAM with 2 GB free HD space Soundcard DVD ROM drive Possibility to activate via another computer connected to the Internet 2 Mac OS X 10 4 or later Minimal Requirements MIDI Playback Administrator s rights for installation Internet connection for activation Intel processor 1 GB RAM with 256 MB free HD space DVD ROM drive Minimal requirements with the RSE Realistic Sound Engine Administrator s rights for installation Internet connection for activation Intel Core 2 Duo 2 4GHz 2 GB RAM with 2 GB free HD space DVD ROM drive Possibility to active via another computer connected to the Internet B Installation on Windows 1 To install Guitar Pro Insert the Guitar Pro DVD ROM in your drive If the setup program does not start automatically double click on My Computer double click on CD ROM drive then double click on Windows setup exe file and follow the instructions You will be asked to accept the terms of the license of use and will let you select the setup directory for the software The installation of Guitar Pro creates a shortcut to the software on the desktop as well as in the Start gt Programs gt Guitar Pro 6 menu of Windows 2 To start Guitar Pro To start Guitar Pro double click on the Guitar Pro shortcut on the desktop or use the Start gt Programs gt Guitar Pro 6 menu U
20. 5 17 18 20 21 47 playback 4 14 18 21 29 31 32 33 34 43 49 50 playing styles 3 PNG 37 44 popping 22 port 32 PowerTab 12 36 44 Preferences 13 33 44 53 54 presets 8 Properties 9 22 30 32 34 45 53 Pull Off 18 19 quintuplets 5 Rasgueado 3 21 47 52 Realistic Sound Engine 1 31 49 Repeat 15 16 46 53 repeat symbols 10 repetition symbol 16 requirements 1 reverb 3 rhythm 5 11 12 13 15 19 25 31 35 36 RSE 1 3 21 28 31 32 37 49 54 Scale Engine 40 41 42 49 scales 40 41 42 score 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 47 49 50 Score Information 8 44 scores 3 4 7 26 27 31 section 3 10 22 24 25 33 46 54 semi harmonic 18 settings 4 6 7 10 12 14 21 27 32 33 35 41 43 49 50 sextuplets 5 shortcut keys 24 simile marks 3 slap 3 slapping 22 Slash 3 47 52 slides 20 48 sound 6 19 20 22 31 32 34 36 37 43 49 soundbank 9 10 31 soundbanks 3 14 Soundboard 7 9 14 29 30 33 36 special paste 3 staccato 18 standard notation 8 9 11 12 13 15 19 21 status bar 7 14 stems 13 22 47 stringed instruments 4 strokes 28 Stylesheet 3 4 9 10 18 19 21 27 35 39 44 53 54 symbols 3 4 6 10 15 16 27 46
21. ASCII Tab menu lets you export the active track into ASCII format MusicXML Export The File gt Export gt MusicXML menu lets you export the score into MusicXML format Created by Recordare MusicXML is a XML description of a musical score This universal exchange format is now available in most music software User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 39 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com WAV Export Use the File gt Export gt WAV to save an audio copy of your score so you can listen to it by use of any regular audio player You can also burn that audio file onto a CD using for instance a burning software such as Nero or EasyCD Creator You can also convert it into mp3 via the appropriate software E g if you play the file with iTunes Advanced gt Create mp3 menu To export into WAV you need to be using the RSE sound banks MIDI tracks will not be exported If you wish to export only part of your score do a multiple selection of the corresponding bars in your score and use Export gt WAV PNG Export The File gt Export gt PNG allows you to save the score in the form of a picture file This function is handy if you plan to publish your creations on a web page for example The image you get from the export is exactly the same as the image you see in the Guitar Pro editor The Export button saves the image T
22. Complete Reduce Bars with Rests Adds rests in bars that are empty or too short and deletes the extra rests in bars that are too long Automatic Finger Positioning Places the notes on tablature without changing the tune so as to simplify the chord positions and movements of the hand Move Swap Voices Reorganizes the voices over a multi voice track Other Wizards Transpose Transposes the active track or all the tracks a given number of semitones up or down This function does not transpose chord diagrams Check Bar Duration Checks the whole score to detect bars that do not have the required number of beats User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 27 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com The Guitar Pro 6 Stylesheet You can entirely customize the general outlook of your scores and give it a professional finish The chosen style is is related to the type of score you have and if you download a score whose style you don t like you may always apply a default style provided by the software to it such as Default Jazz or Default Classic or even load up a style you will have previously saved The Stylesheet presents 5 tabs Page amp Score Format To customize the page settings and the global spacing of notes Systems amp Staves To customize the system layout and the symbols related to it tuning clefs etc Header a
23. Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready User s Guide Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Table of Contents Getting started 1 Installation 1 New Features 3 Technical Support 3 Overview 4 Introduction 4 Understanding Notation 5 The Main Screen 6 Using Guitar Pro
24. Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 14 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Inserting Events With the Soundboard and the Instrument panel you can define the settings for playback right from the beginning of the score You may then add any changes you like anywhere on the score for tempo volume and panoramic menu Edit gt Automations gt Edit Automations or F10 or by clicking on the corresponding buttons at the bottom of the Edition panel You may choose to have those changes of parameters appear or not appear on your score Furthermore you may modify your effect chain See Audio You cannot however change soundbanks for a current track Finally the Edit gt Variations menu lets you swap variations in your effect chain see Audio Tip The status bar shows the current tempo User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 15 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Adding Symbols Guitar Pro allows you to insert many musical symbols in the score and particularly those specific to the guitar Most of these symbols are taken into account during the play of the score Certain effects or musical symbols can be applied to a selection of notes like the Let Ring Palm Mute The symbols can be found on the Edition panel 1 Symbols related to the bar Clef The Clef i
25. The Relative Tempo button to the right of the tempo lets to assign a coefficient to the current tempo to speed up ro slow down playback without modifying the file The coefficient varies from x0 25 4 times slower to x2 twice faster To deactivate that function set the value back to 1 00 Metronome and Countdown The Sound gt Metronome enables the metronome during playback In Guitar Pro gt Preferences you can adjust the metronome It can also be used on its own The Sound gt Countdown menu makes Guitar Pro play a empty bar before playing the score So you can prepare yourself to play and listen to the tempo The Soundboard The Soundboard allows you to set the track s audio parameters such instrument volume panoramic These parameters correspond to the initial settings of the score but you can add changes to the parameters in places Furthermore whenever a track contains no volume automations you can actually adjust the volume during playback In the picture above for instance you cannot adjust the volume for track 2 during playback as User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 34 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com the blue frame around the volume cursor together with the A next to it mean that the track has already been configured with automations You would therefore need first to take out the volume automations F10 before you c
26. advisable to use only one channel per track if your score contains a great number of tracks By convention the percussions tracks are always assigned to channel 10 a MIDI norm User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 33 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Score Playback Guitar Pro has been designed to facilitate the learning of a score Many playback options are available Launching Playback To start playing a score you can use the options under the Sound menu the space bar or the Sound toolbar If you only wish to play part of a score you just need to select it first with the mouse Tip You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Alt Tab and Alt Tab to move from marker to marker during playback Playing in loops and or faster and faster Use the Sound gt Play in loops Speed trainer F9 to repeat a selection from the score To play in a loop a specific section of the score you must first select it using the mouse The Simple Loop option plays the score without modifying the tempo The Speed Trainer increases the tempo for each loop depending on the initial tempo final tempo and increase tempo values Tempo The Sound gt Tempo menu defines the initial tempo of the score You can program tempo change in the middle of the score During playback the current tempo appears in the Status Bar and the Playback Bar
27. al track i e the track with the song s melodic line You can however place them on an instrumental track but you will then have to check the syntax as it is unlikely that the beats correspond to the syllables Note also that you can choose to not attribute the lyrics to any track and write them on the Lyrics panel only for information In that case you just need to uncheck the Display on Track option below the white box 2 Lines You can type up to 5 lines of text The lines will be displayed one under the other on the selected track 3 The First Bar For each line you can determine a first bar after which the lyrics will be distributed This is to avoid having to type in spaces before the lyrics 4 The lyrics The capture area is to type in the lyrics properly speaking Guitar Pro automatically distributes each syllable over a different beat The change of syllable occurs when a SPACE or a HYPHEN appears You may thus use the hyphens to separate syllables in a word If you do not wish Guitar Pro to separate two words however you can replace the space in between them with PLUS symbol If you wish to leave a blank on a given beat just add several hyphens or consecutive spaces The line breaks are considered as spaces On the other hand several line breaks constitute only one space You can thus make your text more open without problems Parts of a text set in between brackets will not appear on th
28. an adjust volume on that particular track The equalizer can also be adjusted during playback You may start playback click on a track s instrument and select from the available instruments one by one to hear which sound better The Soundboard includes a S for Solo case and a M for Mute for you to play one or several tracks without the others or to mute one or several tracks If you only want to listen to one or two tracks it is faster to use the Solo option However if you want to mute one or two tracks in order to play them yourself it is faster to use the Mute option You can hide the equalizer s knobs by clicking on the icon Click on to add a track Click on to delete a track Click on to open the Track Properties window Click on to move tracks up or down Tip Mute tracks will not be exported into WAV Smooth Scrolling This function lets you read the score without any sudden jumps between pages The score smoothly scrolls down at every page change User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 35 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Using a Fretlight Guitar All of the Fretlight Preferences are available on the Fretlight panel left of your screen There you will find an indication of the instrument s status the global preferences for the Fretlight interface and the actions bound to the footswitch Fretlight St
29. anspose Transposes one or all or the tracks See Using Wizards Automatic Finger Positioning Optimizes the placement of the fingers over the strings for the selected notes See Using Wizards Let Ring Options See Using Wizards See Adding Symbols Palm Mute Options See Using Wizards See Adding Symbols Check Bar Duration Checks the bars time values over every track relative to the time signature See Using Wizards Bar Arranger Re assigns the bar lines over the active track based on the notes time values See Using Wizards See Adding Notes to the Score Complete Reduce Bars with Rests Completes bars that are too short and reduces bars that are too long See Using Wizards Move Swap Voices Lets you swap copy and move notes between different voices See Using Wizards See Adding Notes to the Score Sound menu Play Plays the score from the current position See Score Playback Play from the beginning See Score Playback First Bar Places the cursor on the first bar s first beat See Score Playback Rewind Places the cursor the bar s first beat or on the bar before in case it already is the bar s first beat See Score Playback Fast Forward Places the cursor on the following bar s first beat See Score Playback Last Bar Places the cursor on the last bar s first beat See Score Playback Play in Loops Speed Trainer See Score Playback Metronome Uses a met
30. approch It is available at http power tab net TablEdit Import The File gt Import gt TablEdit menu allows you to import from TablEdit format TablEdit is an excellent tablature editor similar to Guitar Pro but with a different approch It is available at http www tabledit com Exporting Scores MIDI Export Definition MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface It is a protocol a universal language allowing the communication of musical information between computers synthesizers sequencers MIDI files consist of messages describing the score very precisely notes rhythm instruments The quality of the sound depends on your sound card The File gt Export gt MIDI menu exports the score into a MIDI format 1 file mid To choose not to export a track just mute it on the Soundboard Tip Guitar Pro allows you to use 2 channels for a single track to enhance the sound restitution Some software does not support this functionality So if you have a problem opening Guitar Pro exported MIDI files use a single channel per track ASCII Export Definition The ASCII format is a textual representation of tablature in which the lines are represented by dashes This format though not very attractive is the only one that allows you to share tablature without specific software It is commonly used on the Internet In general the file extension is txt or tab The File gt Export gt
31. ature without change of pitch See Adding Notes to the Score Chords Opens the Chord Diagram Generator See Chord Diagrams Slash Converts the selected beat s into slash es in the tablature See Adding Symbols Barr Lets you edit the barr or semi barr indication on the score See Adding Symbols Timer Adds a timer above the staff to indicate the time elapsed since the beginning of the score See Adding Symbols Text See Adding Symbols Ottavia gt Converts the selection into ottavia by adding the corresponding symbol above the staff and shifting the notes on the score Design gt Lets you customize the direction of stems and links between beams See Adding Symbols User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 50 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Effects menu Unless otherwise stated every effect is set directly onto the selected note Dead Note See Adding Symbols Grace Note gt See Adding Symbols Ghost Note O See Adding Symbols Accented Note See Adding Symbols Heavily Accented Note See Adding Symbols Staccato See Adding Symbols Staccatissimo See Adding Symbols Tenuto See Adding Symbols Legato Will work only for certain types of instruments piano e g See Adding Symbols Let Ring See Adding Symbols See Using Wizards Palm Mute Note Sets a Palm Mute on the selected note See Ad
32. atus The word connected or disconnected lets you know the status of your Fretlight guitar It can be plugged in or unplugged even while a track is playing and Guitar Pro will automatically reconnect it Fretlight Preferences Left handed option b Check this to have your guitar considered to be for left handers and the strings taken in the reverse order Tablature Mode c Activate this mode to have the guitar s fretboard show the notes as they are played on the active track in real time Chord Diagram Mode d This will have the fretboard show the chords met on the track during playback It is useful if all of the chords have been set on the track Scales Mode e This mode will have the fretboard show the scale you have selected in the Scales window see below First open the Scales dialog window menu Tool gt Scales and choose a scale You may then set the range of frets on which the scale will show on the guitar s fretboard f Lights on off g This is simply to decide whether you wish to see the notes lit on the fretboard or not User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 36 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Footswitch bindings Each footswitch button can be bound to certain useful Guitar Pro playback features Rewind playback to the Beginning of the bar Change to next tempo amongst four tempo
33. ayed on the tablature Important When you click on the main diagram the A area switches to Custom mode and the name of the chord is erased so that you can enter one It is then advised that you choose the name in the list of Alternative Names Guitar Pro will then be able to automatically name the chord and to define its construction in A It will allow you to view the other positions possible in C for the chord you constructed A circle O above the chord diagram represents a string played open an X represents a string not played C The Diagram List The C are display the list of all possible diagrams for the chord built in A You can filter the list to display more or less diagrams depending on their complexity by checking the Simple Medium or Complex mode in C Click on one of these diagrams for it to become the main diagram in B You may also scroll between the diagrams by using the horizontal scrollbar below the main diagram To listen to the selected diagram press the play button below the main diagram in B D Various Chord Names D lists alternative names for the main diagram Click on any of those names for Guitar Pro to reconstruct it in A and update the list of possible diagrams in C Miscellaneous Check Use diagram to make the diagram visible on the tablature If you choose to leave the box unchecked only the name will appear on the tablature Check Show Finge
34. consistent with the tuning chosen for the current track User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 5 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Understanding Notation It is recommended that you know how to read tablature and have a few notions of rhythm before you use Guitar Pro Following is a quick overview of some basic notions 1 Reading tablature Tablature notation was created to make music easier to read for fretted instruments It can be learned quickly and you do not really need to know any musical theory What it shows are the strings that are played which actually is important since any given note can be played on different strings Each guitar string is represented by a line The numbers indicate on which frets the fingers must press to play the notes 0 means that the string is played open that is without pressing on any fret The lowest line represents the lowest pitched string low E while the top line represents the highest pitched string of the guitar high E This actually corresponds to what you see when you lean over your guitar as opposed to what you see when you are facing it 2 Understanding Rhythm Notes can have different durations A note s duration is not expressed in seconds but as a multiple of the tempo A quarter note is one beat The tempo is expressed in bpm beats per minute So if the tempo is 60 a quarter note
35. diagram library via the chord window and lets you add chords to the current beat with one simple click 6 The Lyrics panel Edit lyrics in sync with the melody line The texts are automatically inserted as you type them in See Add lyrics 7 The Fretlight panel This panel is where you choose the options you like when using your Fretlight Guitar plugged in Guitar Pro 6 display mode and footswitch bindings See Using a Fretlight Guitar User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 7 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com The score can be displayed in various ways You can choose to have you score displayed in in 1 or 2 page mode as parchment horizontal or vertical screen or in full screen You get several degrees of zoom and a mini browser inserted in the bottom left hand corner of the score which you can hide via menu View gt Enable browser for faster scrolling over the score See Display settings The Soundboard and Global View The Soundboard together with the Global View allows for an audio tuning of each track and a synthetic view of the score being played in which you can click directly to access a bar You can also select multiple tracks in the Global view which is useful if you want to copy paste easily many bars See Sound settings and Moving around the score The status bar Below the soundboard see image above a status bar gives
36. ding Symbols See Using Wizards Palm Mute Beat Sets a Palm Mute on the selected beat See Adding Symbols See Using Wizards Natural Harmonic See Adding Symbols Artificial Harmonic Lets you select an artificial harmonic and its type See Adding Symbols Bend Lets you customize a bend effect See Adding Symbols Tremolo Bar Lets you customize the use of the tremolo bar See Adding Symbols Slide See Adding Symbols Vibrato See Adding Symbols Vibrato with Tremolo Bar Sets a wide vibrato light or ample on the selected beat See Adding Symbols Slide Lets you choose from 6 possible types of slides See Adding Symbols Hammer On Pull Off See Adding Symbols Left Hand Tapping See Adding Symbols Tapping See Adding Symbols Slap See Adding Symbols Pop See Adding Symbols Trill Lets you customize a trill on the selected note See Adding Symbols Tremolo Sets a tremolo picking effect on the selected note See Adding Symbols Palm Mute See Adding Symbols See Using Wizards Fade In See Adding Symbols Fade Out See Adding Symbols Volume Swell See Adding Symbols Wah Open See Adding Symbols Wah Close See Adding Symbols User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 51 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Tools menu Digital Tuner Opens the Digital Tuner Scales Opens the Scale Engine Tr
37. e 25 Using Wizards 26 The Guitar Pro 6 Stylesheet 27 Drums and Percussions 28 Working with a Score 29 Looking for Tablatures 29 Navigating Around the Score 29 Display Settings 30 Sound Settings 31 Score Playback 33 Usin
38. e Slides Sliding means playing a note by sliding your left hand finger if you re right handed over the frets Guitar Pro supports various kinds of slides The first note is played and then the finger slides to the second one which is not played The first note is played and then the finger slides to the second one which is played The note is played while coming from a lower fret undefined The note is played while coming from an upper fret undefined The note is played and then the finger slides to a lower fret undefined The note is played and then the finger slides to a upper fret undefined Palm Mute The palm mute effects consists in muffling the sound by lightly touching the strings near the bridge with the palm of your right hand if you re right handed person The palm mute effect is represented by the PM symbol above the tablature Tremolo Bar The tremolo bar is used on electric guitars to modify the pitch of all the notes by rotating the bridge The tremolo bar is operated with the right hand for a right handed person The way the Tremolo Bar window works is pretty much the same as the Bend window Trill The trill effect consists of alternating quickly between two notes on the same string by a succession of hammer ons and pull offs The Trill window allows you to choose the fret of the second note the first one being indicated on the score as well as the speed of the trill
39. e Converts the bars chosen via multiple selection multi track into Free Time See Adding Symbols Double Barline Adds a double bar line to the active bar See Adding Symbols Anacrusis Pick Up Bar Converts the first and last bars into anacruses See Adding Symbols Repeat Open Adds a starting repeat bar line to the active bar See Adding Symbols Alternate Endings Adds a repeat section to the active bar See Adding Symbols Repeat Close Adds an ending repeat bar line to the active bar See Adding Symbols Directions Adds a musical direction sign Coda See Adding Symbols Sections gt Lets you manage the sections and go directly to one See Adding Sections Simile Mark gt Inserts a single or double simile mark See Organizing Bars Multi Rest Lets you insert multi rest symbols over all of the empty bars or bars containing only rests See Organizing Bars Force Line Break Forces the Line Break after the active bar in Page mode See Organizing Bars Prevent Line Break Prevents the Line Break after the active bar in Page mode See Organizing Bars System Layout See Organizing Bars User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 49 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Note menu Unless otherwise stated each action below is directly inserted on the selected beat Inserts a beat See Adding Notes to
40. e display modes on the Guitar Fretboard and on the Keyboard are automatically positioned on Show Beat Scales Guitar Pro proposes over 1000 different scales To find a scale you may either check some Tags to filter your search or use the search engine based on a key word The scale will appear in the chosen tone Guitar Pro displays the notes on the scale To listen to them click on the play button Guitar Pro also shows the way the scale is constructed with an indication of intervals and semi tones between notes Just like all of the other Guitar Pro tools the way the notes are displayed on the fretboard is related to the tuning chosen for the active track Analyzing the Scale used in the Score Select part of your score and click on Find scales from selection Guitar Pro shows you a list of possible tones and scales and indicates a percentage of occurrences in descending order Tip If the scale search gives bad results it may be because the score includes a change of tones In that case you need to find that change by ear and limit your scale analysis to a range of bars with no tonal change Tip Guitar Pro does not allow you to directly place a scale from the scale tool on the tablature However by displaying the scale on the fretboard it is then easy to click on it to place the notes on the tablature You can also right click to make the cursor move to the right after adding a note User
41. e score You can thus utilize the brackets to add comments or indicate the headings of various parts INTRO VERSE CHORUS User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 24 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Adding Sections Sections are markers to allow you to easily get to any part of the score They can be set as letters and or names Intro Chorus Verse etc The markers are tied to the bars and are therefore linked to the master track To add sections you can Click on the button in the Edition panel Use the menu Bar gt Sections gt Insert Remove You can navigate between sections by use of the shortcut keys Cf Shortcut Keys Tip You can also go directly to a given section via the Edit gt Go to menu User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 25 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Cut Copy Paste Cut Copy on a Single Track Since you are here cutting or copying from a single track i e not in multiple selection the function does not take into account the structures of the bars signatures etc The function is multi voice however and can work over several different tracks even if the instruments are not compatible e g guitar and piano outside of percussion tracks This is useful therefore as a t
42. e way the H P will appear or not on the score It is common enough for a series of hammer ons and pull offs to be linked together over two notes User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 20 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com to play them legato Upper Mordent An upper mordent is a melodic ornament in the form of a fast beat between the main written note and the higher note relative to the key signature Lower Mordent A lower mordent is a melodic ornament in the form of a fast beat between the main written note and the lower note relative to the key signature Turn The turn in Italian gruppetto little group is a melodic ornament in the form of a melodic line of four notes turning around the main note and revealing the two notes next to it higher and lower The turn starts with note that is immediately lower then the main note the higher note and ends on the main note Just as the mordent the turn is relative to the tune s general harmony as set by the key signature Inverted turn The inverted turn starts with note that is immediately lower then the main note the higher note and ends on the main note Just as the mordent the turn is relative to the tune s general harmony as set by the key signature Left Hand Tapping This consists in hitting a fret with your left hand finger with no previous attack on the not
43. ed www guitar pro com Ties A tie links the note to the note preceding it It lengthens the duration of that preceding note therefore by the duration of the tied note Multiple ties You can also tie an entire beat to the beat preceding it Fermata The fermata is also known as a hold or a pause and what it means is that you are to pause on that particular beat at the discretion of the conductor It is therefore a multi track symbol A window opens up to let you choose the symbol and the duration of the pause by adjusting the tempo Accidentals Those buttons let you add any of the 5 different types of accidentals sharp double sharp flat double flat and natural to a given note Changing the accidental This is to change the accidental without modifying the note s pitch Augmenting or diminishing by a half tone You can raise with this button a note or an entire multiple selection by a half tone The next button allows to similarly lower a selection by a half tone This is a useful tool to transpose an entire track when used with Edit gt Select all Nuances The nuance or note dynamic defines the intensity with which a note is to be played The buttons allow you to choose a dynamic for each note from very faint to very strong In order to get different dynamics on a same beat please use different voices Crescendo Decrescendo This attributes to a beat or group of beats via multiple s
44. election a progressive rise or fall of the volume 3 Symbols corresponding to effects Ghost note A ghost note is a faint note The dynamic of a ghost note is automatically decreased The note is displayed between round brackets on the tablature Accented note Contrary to a ghost note an accented note is played loudly The dynamic of an accented note is User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 18 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com automatically increased Heavily accented notes A heavily accented note follows the same principle as an accented note except in a more pronounced manner Staccato A staccato indicates a very short note independently of the note s duration on the score The note is displayed with a dot below Legato The legato applies to several notes One speaks of legato phrasing It means that as many notes as posssible are to be tied so the way they are played is as fluid as possible This effect isn t available on the guitar for in its place one uses Hammer On and Pull Off Let Ring The Let Ring option means that you let a note ring beyond its theoretical time value as indicated on the score This is used a lot for arpeggios for example The Tools gt Let Ring allows to attribute a Let Ring to each string over a group of bars Dead note A dead note is short and more faint than a normal one These not
45. es and Microsoft Internet Explorer will ask you if you want to open them or to save them to your hard disk Navigating Around the Score Moving around a score in Guitar Pro is extremely easy and you have several ways to do so By Clicking on the Score Clicking on the score moves the edition cursor to the pointed position You can even move in the score during the playback to restart from the pointed position without stopping the playback Using the Soundboard Click on track s name in the Soundboard The edition cursor gets placed on the first beat of the current bar in that track or on the beat being played at the time Using the Global View To view a specific bar in a specific track just click on the corresponding box in the Global View Using markers The Markers represent a useful means to move between different sections of the score Use the Bar gt Section menu or the keyboard shortcuts Using the Keyboard The many Shortcuts allow you to easily navigate around your score from note to note bar to bar or track to track User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 30 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Display Settings To make the most of Guitar Pro it is important to set your display options carefully In Screen modes View gt Vertical Screen and View gt Horizontal Screen menus Guitar Pro uses the whole working a
46. es are used with the Guitar to give a particular rhythmic effect To make notes be dead notes you have to put the right hand palm for a right handed person on the strings near the bridge or else just put the left hand fingers for a right handed person on the string without pressing it Natural harmonic The natural harmonic consists of playing the string open while you lightly touch it with the left hand for a right handed person above a fret The left hand finger has to be taken off at the same time that the right hand plays it 5th 7th and 12th frets harmonics are very commonly used while the others are quite difficult to obtain Artificial harmonic Several types of harmonics are available A H Artificial Harmonic For the artificial harmonic the left hand finger presses the string like a normal note It is the forefinger of the right hand that lightly touches the string several frets higher The right hand has to play the note too so it may be difficult T H Tapped Harmonic The tapped harmonic is an artificial harmonic obtained by tapping quickly on the string several frets higher P H Pinch Harmonic The pinch harmonic is produced with a pick and consists in playing the string by letting the thumb that holds the pick lightly touch the string This harmonic is best obtained with a distortion effect S H Semi Harmonic The semi harmonic is similar the pinch harmonic except you keep the natural resonance of the
47. f Cut Copy Paste and the notes get automatically transposed It is also possible to change the soundbank attributed to the track thus associating any soundbank to any instrument outside of percussions Organizing Bars In Guitar Pro there will necessarily be at least one bar per track Thus any given bar B will bear the same tone and signature on track T1 T2 etc Similarly adding a repeat sign to open or close a section will necessarily affect every track at once This guarantees the musical consistency of the score and a satisfactory result when you play it On the other hand you will have to precisely define each track You won t be able to create a hundred bar guitar track for instance and a percussion track with only one bar playing in loops You will have to reproduce the percussion bar on the 100 bars either by using Copy and Paste or by resorting to repeat symbols See Adding symbols Just as well using the menu Bar gt Insert Bar Delete Bar causes a bar to be added or deleted on every track Barlines Guitar Pro automatically manages barlines When you move the edition cursor to the right it will automatically move on to the next bar if the current bar is complete according to the time signature chosen for example 4 beats for a 4 4 time signature See Understanding Notation In case the bar isn t complete yet Guitar Pro creates a new beat whose duration is the same as that of the preceding bea
48. g a Fretlight Guitar 35 Printing 37 Importing Scores 37 Exporting Scores 38 Tools for Guitarists 40 Chord Diagram Generator 40 Scale Engine 42 Virtual Fretboard 43 Virtual Keyboard 44 Tuner 45 Metronome
49. if you add a chord on the staff a slash will appear and you can then modify the rhythm Each note added in one kind of notation instantaneously reproduced in the other The edition cursor is symbolized by a yellow green blue or grey square depending on the voice it is on Whenever it is on a note the corresponding note in the other notation appears in a grey square The TAB key allows you to switch back and forth from tablature to standard notation If you are using a piano Grand Staff the same key switches from left hand staff to right hand staff Tip The Note gt Shift Down Up menu allows you to shift the notes up and down the tablature from string to string without changing its pitch Clicking on the score doesn t add any note but it places your cursor where you want it This is to avoid modifying the score by mistake when you just want to move over it There are several ways to capture notes into the score Capturing notes on the keyboard Most of the capturing is done on the numerical pad Move on the staff with the arrows Use the numbers to enter the notes Und minus keys to change the note s duration Use the INSERT and DEL keys to insert or delete notes See Keyboard shortcuts for more information Capturing notes with the mouse If you prefer using the mouse you can use the following tools The virtual guitar fretboard menu View gt Instrument
50. ignature determines the number of beats in each bar In that window you can also choose how to link the beams by default Click on OK to continue Click on to choose a triplet feel for the score Guitar Pro 6 offers 6 different kinds Click on OK to validate 5 The track s properties Double click on the name of the track in the Global View to open the Track s properties window menu Track gt Properties to give it a name a short name and set which types of notations tablature standard or rhythmic slash notation you want to be visible Click on OK to continue You can further choose a soundbank set the tuning and the capo etc in the Instrument panel You are now ready to write the score You may also add some new tracks to it Adding Tracks Guitar Pro can handle a virtually unlimited of simultaneous tracks the limits being then those of your machine What instrument you choose determines the type of staff you get Grand staff for piano tablature for guitar and so on Besides this also sets the range of the instrument and the notes that are out of range may appear in red See Stylesheet To add a new track use the menu Track gt Add or click on the icon above the Soundboard to the left A window then opens for you to Select your instrument and set its various attributes Follow three steps for the choice of instrument Family Type and Instrument Display standa
51. in a same beat you need to attribute the same n tuplet 3 5 to each beat from that group Guitar Pro automatically links the notes together as soon as their total duration falls on a multiple value of the chosen n tuplet For more complex n tuplets you can configure the number of notes as well as the total duration of the group The n tuplets are managed in the Note gt Duration menu or by using the corresponding toolbar For more information on n tuplets see Understanding Notation Ties A tie is basically a note that isn t played as such It merely indicates that the duration of the preceding note is augmented by the duration of the note tied to it The tie appears as a regular note in standard notation but it is invisible in tablature Use the Note gt Tie note to add a tie to the preceding note on the same string Use the Note gt Tie beat to add ties to every note on the preceding beat User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 13 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Accidentals flats sharps and naturals in standard notation To add or delete accidentals in standard notation you need to use the Note gt Accidentals menu or the button from the Edition panel For notes captured in tablature form it is possible to change the accidental by using the Note gt Accidentals gt Change accidental menu Displaying rhythm Gu
52. ing the note pointed at The note pointed at by the mouse is displayed You don t need to click on the fretboard Opening the Scale Engine The Scales button in the upper right of the fretboard opens the Scale Engine The display of the fretboard is then automatically set on Show Beat Scales and will stay on it even after you shut down the Scale Engine You will be able to visualize the chosen scale while you enter your score To remove the scale s display just chose another display option User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 44 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Virtual Keyboard Just like the fretboard the keyboard allows to view and to enter the notes of the score It can also show the scales To activate the Keyboard go down the View gt Keyboard menu on a track corresponding to a non fretted instrument To add a note on the score just click on a key To delete a note click on that note The lt gt buttons let you move around the score avoiding the use of the computer s keyboard if you prefer to capture notes with the mouse Tip Right click on a key to add a note and then move your cursor to the right So you don t have to use the button Display Options Select what you want to see on the keyboard Show Beat to see only the notes on the selected beat Show Beat Bar to see the note
53. ip The size of the image is affected by the zoom value You can therefore obtain images of various sizes depending of what you want to use them for Tip The PNG format is adapted to computer screens If you wish to insert your score into a document for print we recommend you use PDF Warning PNG Export is really only useful in Page mode PDF Export The File gt Export gt PDF menu allows you to export the entire score into the Adobe PDF format readable and printable by anybody who uses the free Adobe Reader software or any other PDF reader User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 40 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Tools for Guitarists Chord Diagram Generator The Chord Diagram Generator not only allows you to make your tablature richer it constitutes in and of itself a genuine reference tool for guitarists even independently of tablature To open the chord diagram tool use the Note gt Chord A menu Just like every tool in Guitar Pro the Chord Diagram Generator automatically adjusts to the tuning chosen for the active track You may therefore generate chord diagrams even for exotic tuning modes such as cannot usually be found in chord charts The chord diagram tool is composed of several areas Each part of the window is closely tied to the others and it is important to understand the way the tool works to ge
54. itar Pro automatically manages rhythm display and the directions of notes tails based on the notes durations and time signature You can also manually change the directions of the beams and the stems in the Note menu Voices Guitar Pro handles up to four voices Each voice is captured independently of the other three The buttons let you select the voice to edit If you are working on a mono voice track the other three voices are greyed out The last one of those buttons activates the multi voice mode which allows you to move around the bar without having to worry about the voice you re on You may thus change a note even if you don t know which voice it is part of The multi voice mode displays all notes in black The Tools gt Move Swap voices menu helps you reorganize the voices over a multi voice track Multiple selection The multiple selection allows you to make actions on a group of notes or bars To select complete bars press Ctrl when making the selection Actions are applied to both voices when you select complete bars else they are applied to the current voice only Tip The File gt Preferences menu allows you to set an automatic save after every n actions done This save is done in a temporary file and allows Guitar Pro to recover the file in case of abnormal termination Tip You may Undo Redo your editing actions without limitations See the drop down Edit gt Undo Redo menu User s
55. ively import several files corresponding to the different instruments The imported file can contain comments or misc text Guitar Pro is able to extract the tablature whatever the content of the file is The only rules to respect for the import to work are Lines have to be represented by series of hyphens Bar changes have to be indicated by a vertical bar on each of the strings No empty line has can be present between two strings of a same line of tablature Comments inside the tablature lines are prohibited Once an ASCII import is complete it is often necessary to review the rhythm so the bars be complete The Check Bar Duration tool can come in handy in that case If the score is played and the bars are not complete the rhythm will be false and the notes beyond the bar duration will not be played MusicXML Import Go down File gt Import gt MusicXML to import MusicXML files into Guitar Pro Created by Recordare MusicXML is a XML description of a musical score This universal exchange format is now available in most music softwares User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 38 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com PowerTab Import The File gt Import gt PowerTab menu allows you to import from PowerTab format PowerTab is an excellent tablature editor similar to Guitar Pro but with a different
56. k fretboard keyboard or drumkit See Fretboard See Keyboard Reduce Global View Hides the Global View to focus on the score See Score Playback See The Main Screen Full Screen Sets the score s display on full screen mode See Display settings See The Main Screen Window menu Next Tab Brings the next tab to the fore Previous Tab Brings the previous tab to the fore gpx Brings the file named gpx to the fore Help menu Index Opens the Help files See Installation Launch Updater Opens up the Guitar Pro Updater which gives you automatic access to the latest updates See Installation About Gives you general information about your version of Guitar Pro Arobas Music and the technologies at play See also Technical Support User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 53 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Keyboard Shortcuts Notes and rests WINDOWS MACINTOSH from whole to 64th note Dotted note or or Double dotted note Ctrl or ctrl or Triplet Rest R R Tie note L L Tie beat L L Fermata F F Accidentals WINDOWS MACINTOSH Double flat Ctrl alt 7 7 Flat Ctrl 7 7 Natural Ctrl 8 8 Sharp Ctrl 9 9 Double sharp Ctrl alt 9 9 Change accidentals Ctrl alt 8 8 Raise one semitone
57. lasts 1 second If the tempo is 120 the quarter note is second The other notes are defined relative to the whole note on the staff below are a whole note bar 1 then two half notes bar 2 four quarter notes bar 3 and eight eighth notes bar 4 When a note is dotted its duration is one and a half times its original value x1 5 N tuplets triplets quintuplets sextuplets consist in playing a certain number of notes in a given time spam For example a triplet of eighth notes 3 x beats 1 5 beat is played on one beat or a quintuplet of eighth notes 5 x beats 2 5 beats also on one beat as illustrated by the following Time and key signatures The time signature sets the number of beats per bar For example for a time signature of the 4 indicates that the reference time is the quarter note and the 3 indicates that there are 3 beats per bar In this case there are 3 quarter notes in a bar The key signature tells you what accidentals sharps or flats are systematic in the score User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 6 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com The Main Screen The new interface has been entirely redesigned to make it user friendlier at the same time as more comprehensive while remaining faithful to the major aspects that have constituted Guitar Pro s identity Edition Sound Tools and Sharing
58. lates you can set certain values by default Artist Lyrics Music 2 Key signature In the Edition panel click on to open the Tone window Select the key and the mode major or minor of the score If you do not know which it is you can leave the default value C major as it will not change the standard notation Click on OK to continue The View gt Concert Tone menu lets you activate the concert or transposing tone The concert tone is what a conductor uses the notes displayed are the ones you actually hear the transposing tone is what the musicians use it is mostly used for wind instruments and refers more to the position of their fingers than to the actual melody For instance for someone playing a Bb clarinet the Bb will appear as a C with every other note being correspondingly shifted and the key signature as well the Bb tone signature will bear no accidentals just like a C tone 3 Choosing a clef What instrument you select for the track will automatically set a G or F Clef but you can also change it by clicking on in the Edition panel User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 9 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com 4 Setting the signature and triplet feel Click on or menu Bar gt Time Signature to open the Time Signature window Choose a signature for the score it is set by default on 4 4 The time s
59. ll rights reserved www guitar pro com Working with a Score Looking for Tablatures Finding Guitar Pro files Guitar Pro files are recognizable from their GP3 versions 3 x GP4 versions 4 x GP5 versions 5 x and GPX versions 6 x and later extensions Version 6 x can open all of those Guitar Pro files whichever version they were made with from version 3 and higher To open a Guitar Pro file use the menu File gt Open The list of recently opened files is available under File gt Open recent Troubleshooting download on Windows When you download a file using Microsoft Internet Explorer you will be asked if you want to open or save the file to your hard disk A checkbox allows you to always execute the same action If you choose to check the Open option any Guitar Pro file you will download will be automatically opened in Guitar Pro and you will have problems saving them to your hard disk they will actually end up in your Windows temporary directory To solve this problem follow this procedure 1 In Windows explorer select the Tools gt Folder Options 2 Click on the File Types tab 3 Delete the GP3 GP4 GP5 and GPX extensions by selecting them and clicking on the Delete button 4 Close this window by clicking the OK button 5 Restart Guitar Pro This will re assign the extensions to Guitar Pro and remove the default action in Microsoft Internet Explorer You can now download fil
60. m Index accented note 17 18 51 Accented notes 3 accidentals 3 5 8 13 17 51 Anacrusis 15 46 Arpeggio 3 21 47 52 artificial harmonic 18 48 ASCII 12 35 36 44 Audio 10 14 21 31 32 49 autobrush 3 automations 3 33 45 banjo 4 barlines 4 10 12 15 barre 3 39 basses 4 31 beams 9 13 22 47 beat 5 7 10 12 16 17 19 20 21 23 29 39 41 42 47 48 49 51 52 53 bend 18 19 48 Bend Release 18 browser 7 50 Brush 21 47 52 Capo 3 channel 28 32 36 chord diagram 7 38 39 47 Chord Library 3 chords 3 6 7 21 22 39 47 52 Chords Panel 3 7 classic 3 Clef 8 15 46 52 clefs 3 15 27 compressor 3 Concert tone 3 8 copy 3 7 23 25 28 37 49 Countdown 33 43 49 Crescendo 17 customize 3 19 22 27 31 35 47 48 cut 23 45 Decrescendo 17 Default Classic 27 Default Jazz 27 display options 4 30 Double dotting 3 drums 4 28 31 editing 3 6 10 13 15 16 45 53 Edition Panel 3 6 8 11 13 14 15 24 effects 3 4 6 15 17 20 21 31 32 35 52 Effects panel 6 equalizer 3 34 export 4 36 37 Fade in 19 52 Fade out 19 52 Fermata 3 17 47 51 file 1 2 7 8 13 25 29 33 35 36 37 43 50 53 fingering 21 27 38 Free time 3 15 fretboard 4 11 19 21 39 40 41 42 50 frets 5 18 20 39 fretted instruments 4 5 10 Full screen 3 ghost
61. mmon being the triplet feel 8th which lets you play a 4 4 signature in blues style for instance Free time Free time bars are bars that are played freely in terms of rhythm and tempo The barlines then appear as dotted lines and the time signature is in parentheses Double bar lines A double bar line indicates a change of parts of signature or any other major change in the score Guitar Pro inserts them automatically at every change of signature You can also add more bar lines with the button here to the left whenever you consider a change in the score to be important enough Simple repeat sign This symbols means that the bar is meant to repeat exactly the bar preceding it This makes editing and reading lighter and will not work on the first bar of a score Double repeat sign This symbol means that you are supposed to repeat exactly the two preceding bars It will not work if placed on the first two bars of a score Repeat open User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 16 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com This symbol replaces an opening bar line and means that every bar that follows it will be played again a certain number of times depending on the Repeat close sign see below Repeat close This symbol replaces a closing bar line and sends you back to the last Repeat open sign A dialog window will open up for you to indicate the numbe
62. mp Footer To change font family and font size the placement of texts in relation to the properties of the score author title etc See Create a New Score Texts amp Styles To change the font family and sizes of the main texts in the score Notation To customize the musical symbols so as to set up a score exactly as you d like it to look size of chord diagrams visible or invisible H P symbols indications of fingering and so on User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 28 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Drums and Percussions You can use the Shortcuts to capture notes into a drums percussion track Each line can present several articulations e g the charleston can be open semi open or closed and you can use the 1 2 3 keys from the numerical pad You can also use the Instrument panel menu View gt Instrument panel You can choose which type of sticks you use with the drums and the RSE will interpret the different types of strokes In MIDI mode the percussion tracks are always attributed to channel 10 Tip The Cut Copy Paste functions behave slightly differently from the other types of tracks as one can copy only from a drum track onto a percussion track because of the various articulations User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 29 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music A
63. nstance how this particular variation has been renamed Crunch Click on the empty boxes to add some effects on the lt and gt arrows to move the pedal within the effect chain on the little crosses to delete any effects and on the swith button below the pedal s name to bypass the effect Tip If you add a Wah Wah pedal to your effect chain it can be used as a fixed filter or to obtain the genuine Wah Wah effect by adding its Open o Close positions to the score with the and buttons If you wish to start the Wah Wah effect at any precise point you can set up two variations with one including a bypassed Wah Wah and one with an active one Midi Sound Definition MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface This is a protocol a universal language to transmit digital musical information between computers synthesizers sequencers etc MIDI files include messages that can precisely describe a score notes rhythm tempo instrument etc User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 32 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com The quality of the sound you produce thus depends on your equipment soundcard actual or virtual synthesizer and not on Guitar Pro as such which merely sends information about height and duration to your equipment for it to transform that information into sound Similarly the list of the instruments available
64. on You can also get a one bar Countdown before playback by clicking on The metronome gives you the tempo while your score is playing You can also use it as a regular metronome for practice 1 Create a new non empty file menu File gt New 2 Set the desired tempo menu Sound gt Tempo 3 Activate playback in loops menu Sound gt Play in Loops Speed Trainer 4 Play the score menu Sound gt Play from the Beginning The first empty bar will then be played indefinitely over with the tick of the metronome User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 46 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com References Drop Down Menus File menu New Creates a new score from a template See Creating a New Score Open Opens an existing score See Looking for tablatures Open Recent Gives a list of recently opened files Close Closes the active score Save Ctrl S Saves the active score Save As Saves the active score under a new name Save As Template Saves the structure of the active score to use it as a template later Import gt MIDI See MIDI Import gt ASCII See ASCII Import gt MusicXML See MusicXML Import gt PowerTab See PowerTab Import gt TablEdit See TablEdit Export gt MIDI See MIDI Export gt ASCII See ASCII Export gt MusicXML See MusicXML Export gt WAV
65. ool toward transposing a score If you wish to copy a great number of bars it may be useful to use a multiple selection in the Global View in order to get a better overview of the copied bars Cut Copy in Multi Track Mode This takes into account the structures of the bars and will copy whole sections by extending the multiple selection to the bars included in them Cutting implies taking the selected bars out of all the tracks Simple Paste This is to past the content of the Clipboard onto the current selection or by default before the selection In case the selection contains only one bar other bars get added or the current bar gets completed with the content of the Clipboard If you place your cursor on an empty bar the paste function will first fill in the empty bars and then create other bars as needed Special Paste This allows you to choose what you are going to paste and how many times so How can I insert or delete bars on a single track Considering the musical rigour of Guitar Pro 6 see the Manage Bars section inserting or deleting bars from one track only makes little sense as a bar is meant to be present on every track at once If you really need to insert or delete a bar on a single track you may use the Copy Paste functions as follows E g Inserting a bar before bar 10 on the active track 1 Select the whole range of bars from bar 10 to the end 2 Place your cursor on bar 11 and Paste 3
66. panel to choose the notes The lt and gt buttons on the fretboard to move around the score The note duration keys from the Edition panel to change the lengths of notes The Note gt Insert and Note gt Delete menus to insert or delete notes See The Virtual fretboard and Keyboard for more information User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 12 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Capturing notes with a MIDI instrument The Sound gt MIDI Capture menu allows you to use a MIDI instrument keyboard guitar to capture the score note by note You may add some latency Tip If you edit the rhythm after you have captured the notes instead of for every note it is possible that you get misplaced barlines In that case it may be useful to use the Bar Arranger tool See Sound settings for more information Importing files The various File gt Import menus let you import other types of music files MIDI ASCII Music XML PowerTab TablEdit directly into Guitar Pro See MIDI ASCII Music XML Import PowerTab TablEdit for more information Tip The C key copies the beat your cursor is on at the end of the bar This can be very useful to reproduce an arpeggio or a rhythm pattern Here are some important notions about capturing notes Triplets and n tuplets When you group some notes together
67. r each track Global tuning of the master track compressor reverb equalizer 5 band semi parametric equalizer for each track Choice of playing styles slap picking Humanization of playing styles stresses autobrush Perfected WAV Export Tools Reviewed tuner more precise Possibility to swap voices and copy from one voice to another Scale search engine over multiple selection Transpose part of a score via multiple selection Technical Support Before you contact our online Tech Support you should always make sure that you have registered your license on the Guitar Pro website www guitar pro com and that you have already installed the latest version To download the latest versions of the user s manual language packs and the software in general just use the Guitar Pro Updater This top left logo lets you know that an update is available for download Simply click on it If no update is available the logo you see is Please also make sure that what you are looking for isn t already in this manual as it has been designed to address most of the requests coming from GP6 users If your problems persist or if you are having problems installing Guitar Pro please log into the SUPPORT section of the Guitar Pro website www guitar pro com Please note The distributor of your country may offer additional technical support via the
68. r of repeats you want The playing order for the bars here is as follows 1 2 1 2 3 Repetitions This adds a repetition symbol at the beginning of the active bar This tells you if the bar is meant to be played depending on the number of times it has already been played That symbol is used together with the repeat signs For instance The playing order for the bars here is as follows 1 2 1 3 Directions This function will add the Coda Double Coda Segno Segno Segno and Fine symbols as well as 11 other different types of coda jumps Octave clef This little symbol means that you are to play the score an octave higher than what is actually written If you click on that button the notes will be moved down one octave on the score and a little 8va will be added The other symbol 8vb means the opposite and the two other buttons 15va and 15vb extend it to two octaves 2 Symbols related to the definition of a note Note s duration A note s duration can go from the whole note to the to the sixty fourth note This affects the beat on which the note is placed If you wish to place on a same beat some notes that have different duration value you can use the multi voice editing mode You can also add dotted notes double dotted notes and simple or poly rhythmical n tuplets User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 17 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserv
69. rd engine the scale engine the guitar fretboard etc Opening out onto the world with the many import export functions allowing you to make the most of hundreds of thousands of scores available on the Internet A few important points to understand how Guitar Pro works Custom display options You can work with a page type of display for your score or in screen mode horizontal or vertical so as to make the most of the available space on your screen You can also choose a full screen mode or a 2 page mode You may change the proportions and the page settings of your document at any time with the Stylesheet You can also select whichever tracks you want to be visible Automatic page setup Guitar Pro automatically adjusts the vertical placement of the various elements of the score Note capturing is made very fast for a result that is equivalent to professional songbooks Musical accuracy Guitar Pro automatically adds the barlines and checks the synchronization of the various tracks Your score thus remains consistent in terms of musical rules Such rigour may appear constraining to the beginner but it proves very pedagogical in the end and is essential anyway for the score to be played correctly Interactive tools Each Guitar Pro tool relates to the attributes of the active track Whether you are using the chord engine the scale analyst or the tuner all the results you get will thus be
70. rd notation User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 10 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Display tablature for fretted instruments Display rhythmic slashes for fretted instruments Choose a Full Name that will appear before the first system Choose a Short Name that will appear before every other system according to the settings of the Stylesheet Pick a colour to use in the Global View The track s Audio attributes are set in the Instrument and Audio panels Empty bars are automatically created on the added track so every track has the same number of bars for the sake of musical consistency To delete a track use the Track gt Delete menu or the button To move a track use the Track gt Move up down menu or click on the buttons The button or menu Track gt Properties F6 opens up the Track properties window see above in which you can name the track as well as give it a short name appearing before the first system You may also choose a colour for the bars that show in the Global View see the Main screen and the type s of notation you wish to use slash standard or tab Tip Once the instrument has been selected you won t be able to change it for that particular track nor can you change the number of strings You can however convert an instrument into another instrument by use o
71. rea by resizing the bars and by automatically selecting how much bars should be shown per staff in vertical display mode This approach allows you to work on an score in an optimized way without having to think about bar organization which is important only for printing the score Screen Layout The Soundboard can be resized or hidden altogether In that case you ll be using the various menus or the Keyboard to change tracks Display Parameters for Every File The various View menus Page 1 by column or 2 by column Parchment Vertical Screen and Horizontal Screen set the way in which the score appears If you want to work directly on the paper view use Page or Parchment mode The Parchment mode removes the page breaks With Vertical Screen Mode the bar organization is done automatically The Horizontal Screen Mode is useful in multitrack view The button located in the top right hand corner sets your display on Full Screen mode and thus reduces the Global View and the menus In Track gt Properties you get to chosse which types of staff you want to be visible tablature standard or slash Display Options for each File Use the View gt Multitrack menu to activate or deactivate the multitrack mode Whenever the multitrack view is activated the icons in the Global View let you choose to have only one track visible or all of them or a selection only Note that the active track will remain visible U
72. ring for the fingers numbers to appear under the diagram on the score Click on the Clear button to delete the chord on a selected beat Tip When you open the Chord Diagram Generator the notes of the active beat are automatically placed on the main diagram if no other diagram has been defined for this beat Tip When you validate the chord diagram tool the notes from the main diagram are automatically added to the tablature if no other note was written on that beat Tip You can change chord sizes and placement options in the Stylesheet In short the chord diagram tool can be used for many things Adding diagrams to your tablature Learning the different positions possible on the fretboard for a given chord Knowing the name of a chord you found on your instrument and learning other possible positions or fingerings for that chord Retrieve the positions of the standard chords with exotic tunings of your instrument User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 42 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Scale Engine The Scale Engine allows you to view and listen to a great number of scales in any tonality It can also retrieve the scale used in a score To activate the Scale Engine use the Tools gt Scales menu You will also find a Scale button in the top right hand corner of the Guitar Fretboard or of the Keyboard Th
73. ronome during playback See Score Playback See Metronome Countdown Adds a one bar countdown before playback See Score Playback Tempo Lets you adjust tempo in the Automation window See Score Playback See Inserts Events Midi Input Active Activates or deactivates MIDI capturing See Adding Notes to the Score See Sound Settings RSE Realistic Sound Engine Activates or deactivates the RSE When deactivated the sound is MIDI only See Score Playback See Sound Settings Audio settings Opens the Audio Settings window See Sound Settings User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 52 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com View menu Design Mode See Organizing Bars Multitrack Sets the display on multi track mode See Display settings Concert Tone Sets the score on concert tone mode See Creating a New Score Page 1 per column See Display settings Page 2 per column See Display settings Parchment See Display settings Vertical screen Sets display on vertical scrolling mode See Display settings Horizontal Screen Sets display on horizontal scrolling mode See Display settings Enable browser Enables the mini browser in the bottom left corner Smooth scrolling Activates the smooth scrolling mode during playback See Score Playback Instrument Panel Opens the Instrument panel depending on the type of trac
74. s an indication in standard notation as to which notes correspond to the lines Guitar Pro handles 4 types of Clef G F C3 and C4 Clef as well as 4 types of octave clefs 8va 15va 8vb 15vb Whenever you change clefs you can transpose the notes to keep the same pitch Key Signature The key signature tells you which notes are meant to be altered by default unless an accidental appears next to the note on the score It thus indicates the tone in which the piece or passage is written It is the same for every track aside from transposing instruments when you are using the transposing tone mode e g Bb clarinet automatically managed by Guitar Pro Time Signature The time signature indicates the durations of beats in the bars following that signature the bottom digit corresponds to the number of divisions of the whole note and the top one gives you the number of units in a bar see Understanding Notation Whenever a bar is complete according to the time signature Guitar Pro will directly move on to the next bar if you add a note Incomplete or overlooked bars will appear in red If you have checked the Anacrusis option Edit gt Anacrusis the first and last bars will not appear in red even when they are not completed Triplet Feel Among other things the triple feel means you play in a ternary way some bars that are written in binary mode for the sake of lightness of writing Guitar Pro offers several motifs the most co
75. s of the selected beat and the notes of the active bar Show Beat Next Beat to see the notes of the selected beat and the notes of the next beat Show Beat Scale to see the notes of the selected beat and the notes of the scale selected in the scale tool The note pointed at by the mouse is displayed You don t need to click the keyboard Opening the Scale Engine Click on the Scales button to the right to open the Scales Engine The display mode is then automatically set on Show Beat Beat and will remain so even after you have closed the Scales window You can thus continue to see the selected scales as you capture notes into the score To hide the scale just select a different display option User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 45 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Tuner Guitar Pro allows you to tune your guitar in many different ways by ear or by plugging your guitar into your computer or by using a microphone Whichever way you choose what Guitar Pro takes into account is the tuning of the active track To adjust the tuning of the active track open the Instrument universe The MIDI Tuner The MIDI Tuner lets you tune your guitar by ear string by string Select the tuning mode you need from the list or change it with the buttons located next to the tuning keys The button lets you hear the sound of an
76. ser s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 2 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com 3 To uninstall Guitar Pro If you wish to uninstall Guitar Pro please use the menu Start gt Programs gt Guitar Pro 6 gt Uninstall Guitar Pro 6 C Installation on GNU Linux 1 To install Guitar Pro Insert the Guitar Pro DVD ROM in your drive If the setup program does not start automatically double click on My Computer double click on DVD ROM drive then double click on the DEB file This launches the package installer Click on Install the package and type in your user s password You will be asked to accept the terms of the license of use and will let you select the setup directory for the software 2 To start Guitar Pro To start Guitar Pro go down the menu Applications gt Sound and video gt Guitar Pro 6 3 To uninstall Guitar Pro Use the menu System gt Administration gt Synaptic package manager This launches the uninstall application Click on Status then on Installed Find guitarpro6 in the list Right click on the green square and click on Select for complete removal Click on Apply D Installation on Mac OS 1 To install Guitar Pro Insert the Guitar Pro DVD ROM in your DVD drive Double click on the GP6FULL DVD Rom that has appeared on your desktop then double click
77. ser s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 31 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Sound Settings Guitar Pro proposes two different technologies useable simultaneously to play the score MIDI and the RSE The RSE Sound The RSE Realistic Sound Engine is a unique technology It relies on sound samples made from genuine guitars basses drums and about a hundred other instruments recorded in professional studios The RSE allows for some extremely realistic playback of scores You can activate the RSE via the Sound gt RSE menu Choose a soundbank in the Instrument panel Instrument panel and tune your effects for each track in the Audio panel In the Mastering panel you can adjust the sound for the master track The effects have been created by Overloud www overloud com Guitar Amp Effect and Stompbox modelisations The samples have been realised by Chocolate Audio www chocolateaudio com The Ultimate source for samples The Audio panel With the Audio panel you will be able to load up and save or set and customize your effect chains It can contain up to 5 effects and you can save up to 4 variations per track What this means is that you have the possibility of setting up 4 different chains for any given track and you can switch from one to another just as you would on a multi effect rack Edit gt Variations menu See below for i
78. some information about the current score Place your cursor on the fields to see a balloon tell you if there is an error and if so what it is Hammer On between two identical notes note out of range 5 quarter notes in a 4 4 bar etc The document tabs This is one of the great new features in Guitar Pro 6 you can now open up to 8 files simultaneously which makes it easier to work on different versions of a same piece as well as copy paste between different files and work on different scores generally Each new opened file appears in a new tab and you can select it by way of it or by going down the View menu See Creating a new score User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 8 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Using Guitar Pro Writing a Score Creating a New Score Guitar Pro 6 makes it possible to work on several files at the same time Each file will appear under a tab above the score s window To create a new score in Guitar Pro you need to follow these steps 1 New score Use the File gt New menu This menu first opens a new score based on the chosen template with default presets attributed to the tracks or an empty document in a new tab and then opens out the Score Information window Enter here the general information for the score title artist etc Click on OK to validate and continue When you set your temp
79. string in addition to the harmonic You can obtain those in Guitar Pro in two different ways see Stylesheet Bend The bend effect consists of pushing the fretted string sideways with the left hand for a right handed person to bend it so the pitch of the note changes The Bend window allows you to precisely set the type of the bend you want by adjusting its points For sophisticated bends you need to use ties in order to keep the score consistent in terms of audio playback The Bend Bend Release buttons allow you to define the base type of the bend This choice is also reflected by a different symbol on the tablature User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 19 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com You can set the maximum level of the effect from a value of to 3 The term Full is equal to a whole tone This also affects how it is displayed on tablature You can modify the curve by dragging its points with your cursor Whenever two notes are tied the bends extends to the entire duration It is still possible to edit a bend on a tied note and place a hold on it for instance whose motif isn t there by default The Stylesheet allows you to display the bend in standard notation too Here s an example of what you can do Fade in violin effect This consists in using the volume knob on an electric guitar to raise the sound and not
80. t Whenever a bar is incomplete or too long Guitar Pro displays it in red unless of course it is the bar you are currently editing The Status Bar shows you the actual duration of the current bar as well as its theoretical duration If you move your cursor over that part of the Status Bar a balloon lets you know which voice is incomplete Bar design and settings In Page or Parchment mode it is possible to manually manage the number of bars per line To do so you must use the Bar gt Force Line Break and Bar gt Prevent Line Break menus The Bar gt System layout lets you choose the default number of tracks per system It resets the break lines User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 11 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com The Design mode lets you change the sizes of bars inside a system as well as the number of bars for each system Line break functions only affect the active track or the multitrack view It is therefore possible to create a different arrangement of bars for each track and another for the multitrack view To justify the last bar of the score to the right you may simply add a line break to that last bar Adding Notes to the Score You can write your notes both by way of tablature or of standard notation The slash notation is merely a representation of rhythm and is therefore not designed for writing as such but
81. t the best out of it A Chord building Part A allows to construct the chord by its name Thousands of combinations are possible When you click on one of the lists in A Guitar Pro displays in B the hand position for the chord you have defined a list of other equivalent diagrams in C and other possible names in D The first chord from every list is selected by default You can define a chord inversion i e in which the Bass note differs from the root or simply specify which note you want for the Bass on the lowest string B The Main Diagram Part B shows you the main diagram i e the one that will appear on the score as well as its fingering pattern its theoretical construction and its name The fingers numbers are written inside the diagram 1 for the index finger 2 for the middle finger and so on User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 41 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com You can build a diagram by directly clicking on the frets symbolized in it click on a fret to add or take out a note use the scroll bar to get to a different base fret check or uncheck the boxes to the right to force or to prevent a barre click on the intervals number 1 3 in the bottom left area to take out some notes from the chord You may change the name suggested by Guitar Pro It will be displ
82. the Score Delete the Beats Deletes selected beats See Adding Notes to the Score Copy Beats at the End Copies selected beats at the end of the bar See Adding Notes to the Score Tie Note Creates a tie to the preceding note See Adding Notes to the Score Tie Beat Creates a tie to the preceding beat See Adding Notes to the Score Fermata See Adding Notes to the Score Rest Replaces the selected note s with a rest Duration gt Sets the time value of the notes in the active voice See Adding Notes to the Score See Adding Symbols Dynamic gt Sets the dynamic for the selected note or a crescendo decrescendo See Adding Symbols Brush Downstroke See Adding Symbols Brush Upstroke See Adding Symbols Arpeggio Down See Adding Symbols Arpeggio Up See Adding Symbols Rasgueado See Adding Symbols Pickstroke Up See Adding Symbols Picstroke Down See Adding Symbols Accidentals gt Adds the chosen accidental on the selected note See Adding Symbols One Semi Tone Down Lowers the selected note by one semi tone See Adding Symbols One Semi Tone Up Raises the selected note by one semi tone See Adding Symbols Left Hand Fingering See Adding Symbols Right Hand Fingering See Adding Symbols Shift Down Drags the note to the next string down on the tablature without change of pitch See Adding Notes to the Score Shift Up Drags the note to the next string up on the tabl
83. to the lowest pitched string Brush Brushing the strings means strumming the strings in an energetic manner This is much used for rhythmic guitar accompaniments In the Brush window you can adjust the speed as well as the delay The duration of a brush needs to be shorter than the beat itself so every note has time to ring out before other notes get played Rasgueado This a much used right hand technique if you re right handed in flamenco guitar Guitar Pro offers 18 rasgueado motifs that are all interpreted by the audio engine The score will indicate Rasgueado on the chords as well as the chosen motif Left Hand Fingering Left hand fingering for a right handed person indicates which fingers press on the strings on the fretboard T is for the thumb 0 for the forefinger 1 for the middle finger and so on This can be changed in the Stylesheet It is displayed before the note in standard notation or under the tablature if there is no standard notation Right Hand Fingering Right hand fingering for a right handed person indicates which fingers pluck the strings P is for the thumb i for the forefinger m for the middle finger and so on This can be changed in the Stylesheet It is displayed before the note in standard notation or under the tablature if there is no standard notation Pickstroke The pickstroke function lets you to set the direction for your pickstroke A
84. ture rhythmic motifs with transition notes You can also ask for an entire slash track See Track Properties Extended Barr This is an indication above the staff to let you know if you need to maintain a full or a semi barr on a fret for an extended chunk of the score This is particularly used in classical guitar Timer At any given point this tells you the number of minutes and seconds min sec that have elapsed since the beginning of the score Section To add a section See Adding sections Prevent Force Line Break This is to prevent the next bar from shifting to the next line or forcing it to do so Stem Directions The last 7 buttons allow you to customize the directions in which the notes stems will get drawn and the way the beams will connect User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 23 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Adding Lyrics You can add lyrics to the score with the Lyrics panel They get automatically inserted into the chosen track This way you can edit your text easily with cut copy paste for instance and organise into sections Verses Choruses etc 1 Choosing a Track For the lyrics to appear on the score you first need to select a track The text will automatically get distributed over that track following syntax see Point 4 below In general those lyrics will be attributed to a voc
85. uble simile marks Multirests Double dotting Configurable n tuplets Fermata Accented notes Left hand tapping Rasgueado Arpeggio Two types of grace notes Ornaments mordent and gruppetto Slash notation above and or within tabs Extended barre Timer Grand Staff for the piano Tablatures supporting up to 8 strings Concert tone and transposing tone Partial Capo 3 clefs Complete Stylesheet to entirely customize your scores symbols fonts proportions etc Instant switch between classic and jazz styles Edition Improved options for multiple selection Extended copy paste special paste between tracks from multiple selection Chord Library to enter chords faster on the score Simplified capture of grace notes More intuitive capture of accidentals Editing over 4 voices and in multi voice mode Click directly on the elements of the score Reviewed and improved automations Unlimited Undo Redo Interface Edition Panel Instrument Panel RSE Panel Mastering Panel Chords Panel Lyrics Panel Fretlight Panel Multi document interface Full screen mode Sound Over 100 soundbanks available in RSE Configurable chain of effects pedals amps racks fo
86. ut gt gt Volume Swell Ctrl lt or Ctrl gt lt or gt Wah open Alt O O Wah closed Alt C C Notation WINDOWS MACINTOSH Chord A A Slash in the tablature Held barr I I Timer Text T T Section Ins Design WINDOWS MACINTOSH Prevent line wrapping amp amp Force line wrapping Ctrl User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 55 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com Bar structure WINDOWS MACINTOSH Clef K K Key signature Ctrl K K Time signature Ctrl T T Triplet Feel Ctrl Free time Repeat a bar Repeat two bars Ctrl Multirest Ctrl R R Repeat open Repeat close Direction D D File WINDOWS MACINTOSH New file Ctrl N N Open Ctrl O O Close Ctrl W W Save Ctrl S S Save as Ctrl S S Score information F5 F5 Stylesheet F7 F7 Print preview F8 Print Ctrl P P Preferences F12 Quit Ctrl Q or Alt F4 Q Editing WINDOWS MACINTOSH Undo Ctrl Z Z Redo Ctrl Z Z Cut Ctrl X X Copy Ctrl C C Paste Ctrl V V Cut multitrack Ctrl X X Copy multitrack Ctrl C C Special paste Ctrl V V Select all Ctrl A A Copy the beat at the end of the bar C C
87. v means that the movement is upward from the highest to the lowest pitched string Tapping The tapping effect consists in playing a note by tapping the corresponding fret with a finger of the right hand or of the left hand often both The string is not played as it usually is The T symbol is displayed above the tablature to indicate a tapping effect In Guitar Pro a tapping User s Handbook for Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready updated Feb 2011 22 Copyright 2011 Arobas Music All rights reserved www guitar pro com effect is set for the whole chord This effect is interpreted by the Guitar Pro Audio engine Slap bass The slapping effect consists in slapping the string with your right hand thumb for a right handed person while rotating your wrist to obtain a percussive sound The slapping effect is often followed by a popping effect see below Slap bass samples are part of the bass sound banks for more realistic effect Pop bass The popping effect consists in popping one of the two highest strings with amplitude with the right hand forefinger for a right handed person The popping effect is often preceded by a slapping effect see above 4 Symbols related to annotation and design Chords A See Chord Diagrams Slashes This is to integrate slash notation into the tablature it convert the selected notes into slashes while keeping all information about the notes Very useful to cap
88. y given string If no string is selected then it plays every one in turn By checking the flat box you can choose to name the note with flats rather than sharps Db instead of C by instance The CAPO button allows to place a capo on any fret noted 0 if there is no capo The X suppresses the tuning mode from the list The button applies the chosen tuning mode to the current track transposing that track according to that tuning The other button next to it only applies the tuning without transposing which can make the track sound out of tune The digital Tuner You can tune your guitar by plugging it into the soundcard s input or by using a microphone Make sure the input volume is set on high enough Unlike the MIDI Tuner the digital Tuner produces no sound To access the digital Tuner use the menu Tools gt Digital Tuner In Free mode the tuner recognized the note played as well as its octave and it indicates it in the top right hand corner when the note s tuning is accurate You can also select the name of the note you want and play the corresponding string on your guitar The finger will stand upright with the green light when the note is accurate If the finger isn t moving when you play the string on your guitar you need to adjust the settings of your soundcard and make sure that the input you are using is open Metronome To activate the Metronome use the Sound gt Metronome menu or click

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