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How to turn piano music sheet into guitar tab?

February 15th, 2010 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

is it possible? on the piano music sheet there are two measures which im guessing one is for one hand and the bottom one is for the other hand but how can i make this work into tablature for guitar?

I would download Guitar Pro, preferably version 5.

It’s a little time consuming but you can put the notes in the staff and then view it so you can view the tablature. You can print it and have only the TAB appear on the sheet.

hope that helps, message me if you’re confused.

you can also insert chords for guitar.

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  1. Mike H
    February 15th, 2010 at 06:00 | #1

    Sure, you just have to know what notes the numbers in tab correlate. You can notate the two hands as either one guitar part or two, depending on how complicated it is (probably 2).

    I assume you can read music, here are what notes are on which frets (the number in tab is the fret number, and the line is the string, with the top one being the higher pitched E string):
    http://www.algodemusica.com/files/notas_guitarra.png

    Or did you mean using a computer to convert files? Finale notepad is a free program which I believe does that.
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  2. killykole
    February 15th, 2010 at 06:37 | #2

    I have used programs to turn tab into standard notation but I’m not sure if it does the opposite. The same notes can be played many ways on the guitar. Best solution. Just read the music. The treble staff would be the guitar part. By the time you input all of the standard notation into the CPU program, you could have just read it.
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  3. jepeuxvoler
    February 15th, 2010 at 07:25 | #3

    it is possible but you have to understand both notation styles.

    typically, the bass clef (bottom) is left hand and the treble clef (top) is right hand, but more important is the direction of the stems.

    to transfer it to tab, you need to know what string the note will be played on. if it is a chord, knowing the chord symbol will help.
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  4. Slayertplsko
    February 15th, 2010 at 07:55 | #4

    Sure it’s possible. But, playing with single guitar the parts of piano is often impossible (one guitar, but two hands on the piano). You’ll have to use two guitars probably, or throw some notes away.
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  5. D B
    February 15th, 2010 at 08:27 | #5

    I would download Guitar Pro, preferably version 5.

    It’s a little time consuming but you can put the notes in the staff and then view it so you can view the tablature. You can print it and have only the TAB appear on the sheet.

    hope that helps, message me if you’re confused.

    you can also insert chords for guitar.
    References :

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