I love FL Studio for recording. I use Sibelius for writing, but recently have started using Presonus Notion in an iPad, it is very good. By notating, do you mean just writing the music down? Check out Notion if you can, it comes with options for classical guitar fingering out of the box. Sibelius needed an add-on.
Ive used fl studio for 10 years. I bought a classical guitar earlier this week and ive been composing via midi on fl studio, then notating it on musecore. Then i play/practice what I wrote. Finally, record it and mix into fl studio
"Transcribe!" is a great pitch, slow down, etc. software. You can also run and slow down video with it. I have made hundreds of backing tracks using this software to slow down mp3s to make accurate tracks. I also use "Amazing Slow Downer". If one has a hard time hearing what the bass notes are in an mp3 simply pitch up the song a full octave and you will be able to easily pick out the correct bass notes.
Guitar pro his also good for making backing tracks, drum loops and has a really good sound bank that makes almost real instrument sound. Thanks for all.these informative videos they are really helpfull.
My favorite tool for composing is my DAW. My approach is more like record as I go as opposed to "notate as I go". I've honestly never really felt any need to have notation for my own songs. Obviously if I wrote the parts I already know how to play them and I'm not a guitar teacher so I don't really see a reason to spend time on that. As far as the arrangement part of things, I can easily cut and paste, move things around on the timeline and listen to the results as I go. Changing the pitch of things is easy as well. All a person really needs is an audio audio interface (most of which include some sort of DAW with the purchase) and a pair of headphones or studio monitors to get started. There are plenty of free plug-ins available to shape your guitar tone and there are lots of free VSTi's available for adding other instruments to your arrangements as well. While it's not entirely necessary a basic midi keyboard with some built-in drum pads can make that last part of a whole lot easier and fun. Obviously a person can use something like guitar pro to arrange their music without needing all of that equipment. However I would assume if you're taking the time to compose your own music you're going to want to create a professional-sounding recording of that music in the end so why not just start there? A person can easily get started for around $300-$350. I totally get that if you're creating music related content on UA-cam that having the ability to create notation could be beneficial to you. However for the average Joe just creating songs for their own enjoyment or to play live/publish on the web I'm not really sure why you would need that. I realize that the guitar pro software is useful for a lot of other things as well but within the context of songwriting, why wouldn't I just write my guitar parts by playing them?
Nathan, I've only watched 3:20 of your video, but already I had to stop to come and comment. I've been using Guitar Pro for three years now (started with 6, now on 7.5) and everything you've said so far is spot on. One other thing that I've noticed is that after I complete an arrangement, playing along with the audio of my guitar chart improves the precision of my playing. I don't know why exactly - maybe it's because the software never flubs up, and I feel compelled to keep practicing a passage until I'm playing as perfectly as the software. The best sampled sounds seem to be bass and drums, although the horn samples in 7.5 are vastly improved. I do a lot of blues charts and use the Tele neck pickup sample. It's a pretty good emulation, but just short of not being detectable as a synthesized sound. But, yes, this software is worth its weight in gold. It's made me a better guitar player and a better musician from the standpoint of understanding the duration of notes and their position in an arrangement.
I was writing a lot of classical guitar music in college and I was always using finale. Definitely will look into guitar pro for future projects. Thanks for the tips!
Yeah I never really had a chance to work with finale, but it's definitely one of the industry standards. Seems like it's a more premium product: higher price point with tons of features and customizability, but a steeper learning curve
I use the new open source power tab software, as I'm a big lover of open source software, and the software works the same way on my mac, and windows boxes.
The amazing slow downer was first written decades ago (pre-internet) when clever marketing wasn't that much of a thing, and it truly was amazing plus it was the only game in town.
Great video and well explain ! I use music speed changer on my android phone as a free option, so i can slow my music and work on my computer at the same time without switching windows between editing and slowing but you cover all we need to know keep the good work !
Thank you for this. I want to use something like this to create eBooks with tabs for my albums as I’ve had a lot of requests for this and it seems overwhelming to create this! So hopefully the software will help
I use of course guitar pro, then I also use FL Studio with a simple Piano Track to pre write my arrangement (That i've never finished haha) FL studio or any other DAW is perfect to slow down the music and listen for the correct notes
I recently found Transcribe! by SeventhString which has a fully-functional free trial. It appears to contain all of the same functionality you describe in Capo but has versions for Windows, Mac OS and (usefully for me) Linux.
@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy It's $39 one-off license at the moment. I'm still in the trial period but it seems pretty nice. www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html It even supports pedals to start/stop playback!
Regarding the software to change pitch and speed of a file, I tried Audacity and it seemed really unintuitive. I would recommend using Reaper, which is a free DAW, and it is much superior to Audacity. Reaper is my DAW of choice, for recording, producing, mixing... It is really easy to just drag an audio file onto an empty project, it will automatically add it to a new track, and then you have a slider at the hard right of the transport bar where you can change the speed (note that if you want to change the speed without altering pitch, right click there and it will give the option). Also if you want to change pitch fast, you just right click on the audio file and go to its properties and there you will have all the controls for pitch, gain, speed, whatever you want to do. If you want to do anything else, you can just load up a plugin like on any DAW, and Reaper has some basic ones for these purposes... You can also loop a section, and do everything you would do on a normal DAW.
Good suggestion...I'm a Reaper user/fan myself, and hadn't thought about the ease of the speed change function until reading this. Without going too far down the (in)famous Reaper customisability rabbit hole too far, I would just add that as regards the pitch change feature you can assign qwerty keyboard shortcuts to the actions that implement pitch + or - 1 semitone to a selected audio clip (termed 'item' in Reaper)...Or, even better (for my workflow anyhow), assign those same actions to the forward/reverse of a mouse scrollwheel. As mentioned, a little bit of customisation away from Reaper's defaults is needed to do this, but it's relatively simple - and Reaper has always been set up for ease of customisation. I actually don't use the whole-semitone change function much myself, for normal recording/editing purposes at least; but the micro-adjustment versions of that which are also available - changing pitch up or down in increments of cents of a semitone - is very useful for eg fine-tuning a recorded part where the guitar was slightly out of tune.
I still use Cool Edit 2000. Great for slowing MP3’s, looping, changing pitch. Have used it daily for 21 years. Unfortunately it’s not available anymore.
The background music is very annoying, it distracts you from listening. It’s been proven that many people will stop listening. If you remove it you will definitely get more views and Thumb Ups.
Hi do you know a program that composes guitar parts that i play on midi and make them sound real? I herd of 'band in a box' but it seems very complicated. It's costly and i composes in the style of pop, whilst that software concentrates on jazz. I compose, arrange and produce but don't play guitar and trying to find a resourceful and fast way to have guitar parts in my tracks e.g. acoustic, electric, strumming, picking...appreciate your help 😀
I use G7 Sibelius, which I enjoy using as a arrangement tool and practice tool. But since G7 is no longer available I stuck with Sibelius because of the ease of putting in notation, I have a copy of Guitar Pro but I find it difficult to navigate, maybe I need to put in more time into learning this software, I must admit I just don't like keying tab and have not got pass this.
I have been looking for a program for guitar notation and I found your video. I was wondering what do you use to input those midi notes into guitar pro software? do you use a midi keyboard? your guitar using an audio interface and converting to midi via software? I'm really interested on what you use to input the notes into guitar pro. I appreciate your input on this. Thanks!
I have a lot of. music books & guitar magazines in tabs or notation so I want to put the tabs and notations .POWER TAB OR GUITAR PRO5 Program .I need to learn how to use all I can about power tab SO I can listen to all my [ music books & guitar magazines in tabs or notation ] Can you help me out
I just downloaded Guitar Pro 7.5 and tried using it, and it isn't an intuitive program. If there's no one locally who can teach me how to use it, I'll have to go back to writing music out by hand:-(
When you record audio are you able to record the song in one take or it takes multiple to get that perfect .... I personally tried recording but I play it very nervously for some reason
Definitely multiple takes. Hitting that record button definitely makes you nervous at first. That's normal. The more you do it, the more comfortable you get with it.
When you need a companion Virtual Guitar or Bass you should think of www.amplesound.net Play or program them from A to Z . They are even compatible with Guitar Pro Tabs
Capo looks interesting, but it being a subscription is a non-starter for me. I don't transcribe music for a living, so I would only use this every so often, and renting it as a subscription wouldn't make sense.
That's fair. I don't like the trend of more and more software becoming subscription-based. I think it's a fantastic program but I agree if you're only going to use it occasionally, it might make more sense to go another route. Let me know what program you end up using!
I have been using Musescore for years and to be honest I've never liked it. Its far too cumbersome, complicated and if you're trying to do anything for free, be prepared to get tortured with requests to upgrade....very, very, very annoying. I have subscribed several time for a year but still can't do what I need to do. I totally hate, Musescore.
What's your favorite software or piece of gear you use for your guitar arranging or practice sessions? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Recording camera, just to remember what I made haha
I love FL Studio for recording. I use Sibelius for writing, but recently have started using Presonus Notion in an iPad, it is very good. By notating, do you mean just writing the music down? Check out Notion if you can, it comes with options for classical guitar fingering out of the box. Sibelius needed an add-on.
BIAS FX for rendering my guitar playing, and then i use tux guitar for arranging.
Ive used fl studio for 10 years. I bought a classical guitar earlier this week and ive been composing via midi on fl studio, then notating it on musecore. Then i play/practice what I wrote. Finally, record it and mix into fl studio
"Transcribe!" is a great pitch, slow down, etc. software. You can also run and slow down video with it. I have made hundreds of backing tracks using this software to slow down mp3s to make accurate tracks. I also use "Amazing Slow Downer". If one has a hard time hearing what the bass notes are in an mp3 simply pitch up the song a full octave and you will be able to easily pick out the correct bass notes.
I love this! Commit. Notate. Move on. Repeat as necessary until DONE!
Guitar Pro and the Amazing Slow Downer are the most heavily used. I’ve used a ton of others, but these are the standbys.
Guitar pro his also good for making backing tracks, drum loops and has a really good sound bank that makes almost real instrument sound. Thanks for all.these informative videos they are really helpfull.
This is immensely helpful. Thanks for sharing your process, Nathan.
Thank you very much for this super cool video Nathan! We love all your amazing guitar arrangements!
My favorite tool for composing is my DAW. My approach is more like record as I go as opposed to "notate as I go". I've honestly never really felt any need to have notation for my own songs. Obviously if I wrote the parts I already know how to play them and I'm not a guitar teacher so I don't really see a reason to spend time on that.
As far as the arrangement part of things, I can easily cut and paste, move things around on the timeline and listen to the results as I go. Changing the pitch of things is easy as well.
All a person really needs is an audio audio interface (most of which include some sort of DAW with the purchase) and a pair of headphones or studio monitors to get started. There are plenty of free plug-ins available to shape your guitar tone and there are lots of free VSTi's available for adding other instruments to your arrangements as well. While it's not entirely necessary a basic midi keyboard with some built-in drum pads can make that last part of a whole lot easier and fun.
Obviously a person can use something like guitar pro to arrange their music without needing all of that equipment. However I would assume if you're taking the time to compose your own music you're going to want to create a professional-sounding recording of that music in the end so why not just start there? A person can easily get started for around $300-$350.
I totally get that if you're creating music related content on UA-cam that having the ability to create notation could be beneficial to you. However for the average Joe just creating songs for their own enjoyment or to play live/publish on the web I'm not really sure why you would need that. I realize that the guitar pro software is useful for a lot of other things as well but within the context of songwriting, why wouldn't I just write my guitar parts by playing them?
Nathan, I've only watched 3:20 of your video, but already I had to stop to come and comment. I've been using Guitar Pro for three years now (started with 6, now on 7.5) and everything you've said so far is spot on. One other thing that I've noticed is that after I complete an arrangement, playing along with the audio of my guitar chart improves the precision of my playing. I don't know why exactly - maybe it's because the software never flubs up, and I feel compelled to keep practicing a passage until I'm playing as perfectly as the software. The best sampled sounds seem to be bass and drums, although the horn samples in 7.5 are vastly improved. I do a lot of blues charts and use the Tele neck pickup sample. It's a pretty good emulation, but just short of not being detectable as a synthesized sound. But, yes, this software is worth its weight in gold. It's made me a better guitar player and a better musician from the standpoint of understanding the duration of notes and their position in an arrangement.
When I compose or arrange I use Musescore (the most current version) and Logic Pro for my DAW.
I'm teaching my son to play guitar and need to write the music so we have something to follow
I was writing a lot of classical guitar music in college and I was always using finale. Definitely will look into guitar pro for future projects. Thanks for the tips!
Yeah I never really had a chance to work with finale, but it's definitely one of the industry standards. Seems like it's a more premium product: higher price point with tons of features and customizability, but a steeper learning curve
Thank you for sharing and for Fretboard Freedom .
I use the new open source power tab software, as I'm a big lover of open source software, and the software works the same way on my mac, and windows boxes.
The amazing slow downer was first written decades ago (pre-internet) when clever marketing wasn't that much of a thing, and it truly was amazing plus it was the only game in town.
Great video and well explain ! I use music speed changer on my android phone as a free option, so i can slow my music and work on my computer at the same time without switching windows between editing and slowing but you cover all we need to know keep the good work !
that's a great idea!
Sibelius is my favorite software.
I just do this for the UA-cam algorithm... I love your videos! :) Thank you
Thanks for the advice to use these kinds of software!
Thank you for this. I want to use something like this to create eBooks with tabs for my albums as I’ve had a lot of requests for this and it seems overwhelming to create this! So hopefully the software will help
Spot on video here!
thanks aaron!
Thank you for making this channel!
I use of course guitar pro, then I also use FL Studio with a simple Piano Track to pre write my arrangement (That i've never finished haha)
FL studio or any other DAW is perfect to slow down the music and listen for the correct notes
I recently found Transcribe! by SeventhString which has a fully-functional free trial. It appears to contain all of the same functionality you describe in Capo but has versions for Windows, Mac OS and (usefully for me) Linux.
awesome! what's the price point after the free trial?
@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy It's $39 one-off license at the moment. I'm still in the trial period but it seems pretty nice.
www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html
It even supports pedals to start/stop playback!
I use Transcribe as well. It's great.
Ultimate guitar pro and Guitar Pro
you have a nice beard and the quality of this video is very nice and i am leaving a comment to help your youtube algorithm, great job
Regarding the software to change pitch and speed of a file, I tried Audacity and it seemed really unintuitive. I would recommend using Reaper, which is a free DAW, and it is much superior to Audacity. Reaper is my DAW of choice, for recording, producing, mixing... It is really easy to just drag an audio file onto an empty project, it will automatically add it to a new track, and then you have a slider at the hard right of the transport bar where you can change the speed (note that if you want to change the speed without altering pitch, right click there and it will give the option). Also if you want to change pitch fast, you just right click on the audio file and go to its properties and there you will have all the controls for pitch, gain, speed, whatever you want to do. If you want to do anything else, you can just load up a plugin like on any DAW, and Reaper has some basic ones for these purposes... You can also loop a section, and do everything you would do on a normal DAW.
Oh cool! I've never used Reaper, so it's good to hear it might be a better free option. Thanks for sharing!
Good suggestion...I'm a Reaper user/fan myself, and hadn't thought about the ease of the speed change function until reading this. Without going too far down the (in)famous Reaper customisability rabbit hole too far, I would just add that as regards the pitch change feature you can assign qwerty keyboard shortcuts to the actions that implement pitch + or - 1 semitone to a selected audio clip (termed 'item' in Reaper)...Or, even better (for my workflow anyhow), assign those same actions to the forward/reverse of a mouse scrollwheel. As mentioned, a little bit of customisation away from Reaper's defaults is needed to do this, but it's relatively simple - and Reaper has always been set up for ease of customisation.
I actually don't use the whole-semitone change function much myself, for normal recording/editing purposes at least; but the micro-adjustment versions of that which are also available - changing pitch up or down in increments of cents of a semitone - is very useful for eg fine-tuning a recorded part where the guitar was slightly out of tune.
I still use Cool Edit 2000. Great for slowing MP3’s, looping, changing pitch. Have used it daily for 21 years.
Unfortunately it’s not available anymore.
great content. Thanks for the helpful info!
I use MuseScore all the time, haven’t found any limitations in it.
How to set horizontal view in musescore?
do you know how to add slaps and false harmonics on MuseScore?
The background music is very annoying, it distracts you from listening. It’s been proven that many people will stop listening. If you remove it you will definitely get more views and Thumb Ups.
very cool, thanks
I use GuiterRig5 for Rocking
Hello thanks for your video, I am wondering if guitar pro is able to notation rhythm like up down strumming?
I have a range of guitar arrangement accumulated during my like. I want to put them down and sell them. I have no experience
Is there something that will notate automatically?
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Still using Tabledit. Am I the only one here? Thinking of making a change.
Hi do you know a program that composes guitar parts that i play on midi and make them sound real? I herd of 'band in a box' but it seems very complicated. It's costly and i composes in the style of pop, whilst that software concentrates on jazz. I compose, arrange and produce but don't play guitar and trying to find a resourceful and fast way to have guitar parts in my tracks e.g. acoustic, electric, strumming, picking...appreciate your help 😀
A worthy open source software mention is TuxGuitar.
I use Reaper as a DAW.
I use G7 Sibelius, which I enjoy using as a arrangement tool and practice tool. But since G7 is no longer available I stuck with Sibelius because of the ease of putting in notation, I have a copy of Guitar Pro but I find it difficult to navigate, maybe I need to put in more time into learning this software, I must admit I just don't like keying tab and have not got pass this.
I have Guitar Pro 7 but it takes me so long to write a song out in it, I end up using a piece of paper instead LOL.
im wondering,can you take a guitar plug it into an interface and play it straight into the notation software and have it come up as notes and tabs?
I just bought guitar pro and I was afraid you were going to say it was crap. hahaha
haha noooo that would be terrible!
thanks I needed it :)
glad i could help!
how do you use it? How do you write? I don't understand what this software is good for.
Guys I really don’t know what to use , i wanna add effects to my acoustic guitar , what DAW that is easy and u recommend me to use ? 🙏
Fl studio
Sility thanks I'll try it !
nathan: not your guitar
me who was going to type: my guitar
I'd like to add notations to existing scores/arrangements in PDFs. Is it possible to import a PDF into Guitar Pro for editing? for practicing? Thanks!
Pen and paper with notelines
keeping it on pen and paper, i respect that
Way over my head but still, interesting!
Do you plug a mic into your camera for audio when recording arrangement videos or do you record the audio separately?
I pre-record the audio so I can shoot multiple camera angles
I have been looking for a program for guitar notation and I found your video. I was wondering what do you use to input those midi notes into guitar pro software? do you use a midi keyboard? your guitar using an audio interface and converting to midi via software?
I'm really interested on what you use to input the notes into guitar pro. I appreciate your input on this. Thanks!
I just use my computer keyboard to input the numbers for the tabs which Guitar Pro, then, also notates in standard notation
Thank you, @@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy
Guitar pro ^^
Power Tabs or bust
I have a lot of. music books & guitar magazines in tabs or notation
so I want to put the tabs and notations .POWER TAB OR GUITAR PRO5
Program .I need to learn how to use all I can about power tab
SO I can listen to all my [ music books & guitar magazines in tabs or notation ]
Can you help me out
I just downloaded Guitar Pro 7.5 and tried using it, and it isn't an intuitive program. If there's no one locally who can teach me how to use it, I'll have to go back to writing music out by hand:-(
What about yousician
When you record audio are you able to record the song in one take or it takes multiple to get that perfect .... I personally tried recording but I play it very nervously for some reason
Definitely multiple takes. Hitting that record button definitely makes you nervous at first. That's normal. The more you do it, the more comfortable you get with it.
Guitar pro 6
When you need a companion Virtual Guitar or Bass you should think of www.amplesound.net Play or program them from A to Z . They are even compatible with Guitar Pro Tabs
I dont use any programme, which is why I am here
Do you send it from guitar pro to finale or sibelius when you publish it on musicnotes.com?
Nope I just send Musicnotes both a PDF and the Guitar Pro file itself
Can I use these even if I dont know how to read notes?
Yeah, you can work exclusively with tabs
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Logic Pro X. Awesome recording software. $200 one time payment
Ah, Audacity. A classic.
Capo looks interesting, but it being a subscription is a non-starter for me. I don't transcribe music for a living, so I would only use this every so often, and renting it as a subscription wouldn't make sense.
That's fair. I don't like the trend of more and more software becoming subscription-based. I think it's a fantastic program but I agree if you're only going to use it occasionally, it might make more sense to go another route. Let me know what program you end up using!
The best player for transcribe FREE: Is JAMAPP from site "guitar and bass software" the author Gabriel Fernandes. Check it !
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you, and most, need to literally learn the meaning of the word: literally.
I have been using Musescore for years and to be honest I've never liked it. Its far too cumbersome, complicated and if you're trying to do anything for free, be prepared to get tortured with requests to upgrade....very, very, very annoying. I have subscribed several time for a year but still can't do what I need to do. I totally hate, Musescore.
Blah, Blah, Great How about a demo? Unreal!