Justin and Thomas from Guitar Pro hosted a special Live Class where they transcribed a Blues solo step by step using Guitar Pro 8.
It wasn’t just a demo—you could ask questions, interact live, and hang out with Justin and Thomas while diving into the process. Our Blues Immersion students joined in too, so it was a great sneak peek at what the program feels like in action. Lots of tips and great questions came up!
Since you’re joining from the Community, we’re making this exclusive track from Justin’s Transcribe Blues Solos course available to our lovely Community members for a limited time. Download it here!
If you’ve got Guitar Pro questions, drop them below and Thomas will help you out.
Cheers,
Fanny
Student questions:
From Nigel: What’s the best way to enter lyrics, especially when they fall between notes, so they follow the correct guitar part?
From Denis: How useful are interval training apps? I’ve tried one and improved my scores, but it didn’t help much when transcribing real music. Real solos often have too many intervals packed closely together.
Thanks so much for a great session. There are some great tips in there!
I did ask this question and it was kind of answered I think. But not specifically.
I have a guitar pro file where I added the BLIM Pattern 1 Licks audio file, which I’ve transcribed. I’m wanting to put the pattern 2 licks audio file at the end of this file. I just tried to drag it in, but it won’t let me. Can you explain how to actually get the second audio file in following the first one please?
Great session I downloaded the 7-day trial to give it a go. It’s been at least 6 months since my last BLIM paper transcription, so I was pretty surprised that I managed to transcribe the first 12 bars of the lead solo on my first try at rhythm transcription in Guitar Pro. I definitely learned a lot from this live session, and I think Justin should make a new one focused on the lead part to see how he handles the trickier rhythms—like triplets and others he mentioned in the video.
Thomas, a few questions for you :
Q1) When pressing the space bar, Is there some way to change the playhead behavior to return to where play was started from after stopping? e.g. If I start on bar 12 and play 8 bars, return to bar 12 after hitting stop instead of now being at bar 20. In other words, a keyboard shortcut to return cursor to previous position after stop like the space bar does in most DAW or Transcribe!
Q2) In the demo, Justin seems to perfectly sync the audio track to 95 bpm without difficulties. For me, I can’t get 95 round. The closest I could get was some markers at 94.7, 95.4 and 94.9 and 95. Everytime I move my mouse to try to put more precision, it can’t go to 95 round, it jumps to some other numbers. Seems weird to me and it seems so fast and easy in the demo to adjust.
Q3) Do you have hands-on youtube tutorials like yesterday for learning guitar pro in depth?
I would recommend making a copy whenever you save a file, on anything, and work from that so you don’t accidentally delete something you’ve worked extremely hard on. Save it at the end, make the copy, verify it’s the right one, and delete the first ones you saved. I also save a file whenever I make a few changes, say to an entire bar or bars before continuing for the same reason. This is using a different tab creation software I’ve had for years now, but would apply to anything you’re working on. Not sure if you can create copies in saved files on Guitar Pro or not, but it’s nice to have one on your own computer handy too.
I purchased Guitar Pro during Richard Coles’ recent discussion about it. So far I haven’t had time to play with it. I’m wondering if it can do other instruments besides guitar so the staff is set up differently for each one dependent on the number of strings and their tuning? Also, would it do different tunings for guitar or just the standard tuning? Same for other instruments. Lastly, what was guitar ‘clean’ Justin clicked on during the event when he opened the program to choose what he wanted to write? I’m sure once I play around with Guitar Pro, I’ll find everything. It would be a great selling point though for others to know before they decide to purchase if it can do all this. Thanks!
This one is for you @FannyJustinGuitar. I purchased the Guitar Pro offer and received the link to get the 1 year PMT subscription on the website. Yeah… I couldn’t resist buying it after trying it in the livestream and tonight I’ll watch Richard’s previous club
So my question is : Can I wait a few months to start the 1 year PMT subscription ? Or do I need to activate it now to avoid loosing it ? The reason is that I’ll be pretty busy with transcribing in the next months and would prefer to start the 1 year PMT subscription after that time.
I can answer Q1. To repeat a bar or number of bars, select them with the mouse and they’ll turn blue. When you hit the space bar, they’ll stop playing and when you hit it again you’ll return to the first bar in the selection. Works the same as Transcribe! selections. Make sure you have the loop icon at the top of the screen selected (Justin showed it in the video)
If the tab you downloaded is one of these formats, you are good to go. If you need a hand with a specific file, feel free to contact our support, we’ll be happy to help: https://support.guitar-pro.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
To answer Nigel’s question, here’s how lyrics work in Guitar Pro. You can open the Lyrics window from the Editing Palette on the left. Lyrics are tied to notes and their timing, so the best workflow is usually to create a dedicated vocal track with the sung notes. You can edit up to five lyric lines.
Put your cursor right on the beat where the syllable starts, then just type it in. A few simple rules make it click:
A space splits a word into syllables → hel lo
A plus sign (+) keeps syllables on the same beat → glo+ria. The + also allows you to drag text when it is used before or after a word separated from another by a space
Text in [brackets] is hidden → [count-in]
Unfortunately, I don’t fully understand Denis’s question.
If something doesn’t behave as expected, feel free to contact us directly — we’ll be happy to help Guitar Pro Support
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to add a second audio file directly after the first one in the same Guitar Pro file at the moment.
A possible workaround is to merge the two audio files into one using a free audio editor like Audacity or another software, and then import that single combined file into Guitar Pro.
Good news though, we’ve added the ability to have multiple audio tracks to our wishlist for future improvements!
Thanks for your questions! Let me go through them one by one:
Q1 – Playhead behavior
By default, the playhead stops where you hit stop, which is useful to continue editing right where you left off.
If you want to quickly return to the start of the score or the previous bar, you can use the navigation options in the top toolbar, or the keyboard shortcuts:
Command + Left Arrow → return to start of the score
Command + (up-left arrow) → return to the previous bar
Or, you can also select the section you want to repeat using your mouse (the content will be highlighted in blue). When you start and stop playback, the cursor will remain at the beginning of the selection.
Q2 – Tempo / Audio sync
Sometimes it can be tricky to get an audio track to match a specific BPM exactly. Using a mouse or trackpad can affect how precisely you can adjust it. It’s not a known issue, but feel free to contact us if this becomes too annoying.
Q3 – Learning Guitar Pro
We have some tutorials for GP 7.6 that are still valid for GP 8:
Thanks for your reply. I thought this might be the case.
If I do combine the two audio files, I guess I’ll lose all the synchronisation work I’ve done on the first file because the synchronisation is part of the audio track itself. Is this correct?
Since you’re joining from the Community, we’re making this exclusive track from Justin’s Transcribe Blues Solos course available to our lovely Community members for a limited time. Download it here!
The recording is now available here: https://www.justinguitar.com/live-events/188
(up-left arrow) → return to the previous bar