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How do i convert guitar tabs to piano keys?
Peachey
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:09 am reply with quote
Hey guys i am trying to make a remix to Muse's Uprising and i want to put in the solo and some other bits from the guitar but i have no idea of how to make the guitar tab pitch's on the piano keys.

If you get what im saying can you please help me?!?!

Cheers.
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Tijl
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:59 am reply with quote
Just look at it as a guitar being 6 pianorolls;

If for example your tab has a 5 on the lowest string (which is the E string normally) then you start counting 0=E 1=F 2=F# 3=G 4=G# 5=A so you're piano note is an A etc etc (the tuning for a guitar is E A D G B E for the other strings btw

OR; download guitar pro, load in the tab, convert it to midi and you're basicaly done :p
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seppesantens
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:55 am reply with quote
you also might want to take a look at this:

http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/
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allcentury
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:21 am reply with quote
i've owned an account with: 8notes.com for a while. they will convert, it's about $12 a yr. else you can do it by hand but for my line of work, it made sense to pay for the software
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:32 am reply with quote
Tijl wrote:
OR; download guitar pro, load in the tab, convert it to midi and you're basicaly done :p

That's what I would do. But instead of guitar pro I would download TuxGuitar which is free open source. It's an awesome program that does exactly what Guitar Pro does, and of course it opens tabs made in Guitar Pro.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:46 pm reply with quote
geroyannis wrote:
Tijl wrote:
OR; download guitar pro, load in the tab, convert it to midi and you're basicaly done :p

That's what I would do. But instead of guitar pro I would download TuxGuitar which is free open source. It's an awesome program that does exactly what Guitar Pro does, and of course it opens tabs made in Guitar Pro.


I just discovered TuxGuitar recently and I like it. One can enter either standard music notation, tablature, click notes on a fretboard, or even click from the chord options. It's GNU/Linux and can be used on Windows and Apple computers.

I use it to import MIDI, add a blank measure in front of the piece, and then export MIDI to Garageband where I will delete the first beat of the blank measure (which usually has MIDI patch selections commands) so that I can use different instruments.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:43 am reply with quote
Try using the convertor at http://guitartabs2notes.cleverpages.co.uk
Currently this converts guitar chord shapes in the format x23332 or similar into notes on a treble stave and will also name the notes for you if you ask it to. Other stuff in the pipeline includes the conversion of linear tabs in the format ---5--- etc and displaying the lower 2 or 3 notes on a bass stave.
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