Recently purchased Guitar Pro to learn songs. Also signed up for a My Songbook subscription for access to the songs in Guitar Pro.
However, there are songs I would like to learn that aren’t in the website Songbook.
Questions:
Where do you find files for songs that can be imported into Guitar Pro? Song files that also have Tabs?
Are there instructions in the Guitar Pro support on how to import those files?
I am somewhat technologically challenged (hahaha) so I may have more questions based on any responsed I get.
Thanks everyone!
Most tab sites provide songs in GP formats. An example would be Ultimate Guitar. Search for your song and select tab examples. These will be shown as Tab, Guitar Pro GP tab or Pro Tab. There should be a down load option of the bottom of each songs tab. Download that and double click on the file and it will automatically start Guitar Pro on your system. And despite the many version of Guitar Pro files, suffix GPx (where x = version), Guitar Pro should accept them all. I have many files on my PC for both GP4 and GP5 files which go back nay years but GP8 happily reads them.
The are other tab sites out there not just UG that was just an example, so you could just search “song name” guitar pro tab and let Google or whoever find the files for you.
Warning not all online tab is accurate even GP tab but most will get you in the ball park.
Indeed, what @TheMadman_tobyjenner said. When you look up tabs on Ultimate-Guitar, the “Type” will be listed as “Guitar Pro”. These are the tabs that you can go into and then at the bottom hit the download button.
One thing I’ll add, a lot of YouTube instructors who offer lessons on songs or exercises will often have a download link with guitar pro tabs, either via patreon or something else.
And sometimes, you just have to work out how to write it up in Guitar Pro yourself. I’ve done that before. Even with some of Justin’s stuff that he didn’t provide a download for.
Sometimes there’s just too much talking and describing for me to follow (in addition to watching what he’s doing but not mentioning in words). So I have to slow down, write it down bar-by-bar, and look at it as a picture. That works better for my brain to wrap itself around than words or descriptions or trying to watch the fretboard.
This is what I’ve been doing. Mainly because I don’t have a paid subscription to any of the TAB sites so I have to do it myself. It’s time consuming and a bit annoying but it is worthwhile. I use Guitar Pro nearly everyday for practice.
I saw that too, created a free account and can now see GPro style tabs and play them in the browser, but I don’t see a download button, perhaps that’s behind a paywall?
You can’t get the “Official” or “Pro” tabs on a free account but you can get the public versions for free. I’ve been trying a few things today after seeing Toby’s post. The free versions are submitted by the general public, they won’t be entirely accurate but you can edit the tabs yourself. At least it gives you a starting point.
