1. Guitar Pro
2. Ultimate Guitar

Guitar Pro is a tablature editor software for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments. You can create your own professional scores for one or several instruments and capture your notes quickly, use various tools to optimize your practice sessions (tempo, looper, metronome, chord and scale library, guitar and piano fretboard), print your tabs and export it in various formats, and more. Tab Grabber makes it quick and easy to download Guitar Pro tab files from Songsterr. Easily search and download Guitar Pro tab files directly from Songsterr with lightning speed! Enter a song artist and/or title to search for and the results will be displayed.

Guitar Pro is a powerful score player really helpful to learn how to play, improve your technique, reproduce your favorite songs or accompany yourself.

Guitar Pro allows you to compose and read music scores using the musical notation of your favorite instrument. Display the tablature notation to learn guitar riffs or use the standard notation to read music score for piano, drums, brass and strings. Rediscover also the Slash notation to sight-read easily rhythmic patterns from chord charts.

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Hit play and the tab automatically scrolls on. A highlighted cursor lets you know which note is being played and the sound engine reproduces all of the effects specific to the guitar: pickstroking and fingerpicking, bend, slide and ghost notes. You can also adjust tempo or use the speed trainer to loop a section of the score while inscreasing the bpm (beat per minute).

Drive your Guitar Pro files with the instrument's global view available below the sheet music. It allows you to have a synthetic view of the instrument tracks and thus to easily move around it. You can define various sections in a score, such as intro, verse, or chorus. Audio mixing features are included in this overview. You can mute one or several tracks, and choose to show or hide them. Simply solo/mute the tracks you want as if you were playing along with your band.

Express your talent by creating your own scores in a matter of minutes. You can edit the notes directly on the standard score or on the tablature. All the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments are available. The notes capture can be made quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument.

Customize your score

Based on the classic or jazz styles, you can set 70 different parameters, configure the layout of your scores exactly as you wish, and get professional-level paper printouts.

Create multitrack scores

The multitrack edition allows you to create music scores with dozens of instruments: guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, strings, brass and many more.

Notation elements

Guitar Pro allows you to add to your score all of the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments.

Bar and sheet music organization

Key, key signature and rhythm rendition for your sheet music. Bar repetition, repeat bar, da coda, da segno, return to the line and section name (verse, chorus, bridge…) for your bars.

Music notation

Note value (from whole note to sixty-fourth note), triolets, n-tuplets, rest, dynamics, accents, tied note, accidental, fingering for left and right hand, up and down pick strokes, barre chords, stems and ligatures. You can also add comments to the score, lyrics and chord diagrams.

Playing effects

Let ring, palm mute, natural and artificial harmonic, bends, tremolo bar, vibratos, slides, hammer on, pull off, tapping, slapping, hoping, brushes, rasguedo, grace note, trill, tremolos, crescendo/decrescendo and fade in/fade out

Chords

Ask any chord and Guitar Pro will display all possible positions on the fretboard. Draw a diagram by clicking on the chord grid and see all matching names.

Scales

View and listen many scales from the most common to the most exotic ones. The selected scale can be displayed on the fretboard or piano to help you compose your song, write a solo or melody line.

Lyrics

Easily enter the lyrics of your songs and arrange them at bottom of your vocal track. You can also add annotations to point riffs or solos out that might need some extra explanation for being played properly.

Polyphonic tuner

The polyphonic tuner allows you to tune your guitar by plugging it into your sound card or via a microphone. Just one brush-down stroke allows you to check the tuning of all six strings at once.

Virtual instruments let you view and enter musical notes from a graphical representation of your instrument. It can display notes of the current time, the notes of the current bar or of the selected scale. Intuitive and easy to use, it is an ideal tool for beginners or tablature notation fans.

Latest version: v1.3.0

• Easily search and download Guitar Pro tab files directly from Songsterr with lightning speed!
• Enter a song artist and/or title to search for and the results will be displayed.
• Select the song (or multiple songs in Plus version) you are interested in.
• At this point, you can either choose to download the selected tab(s) or you can also choose to view the tab page(s) on the Songsterr website (Plus version) which can be handy for ensuring it is the correct song or simply to look it over before deciding to download the tab.
• Another way you can use Tab Grabber is as a companion for when you are browsing the Songsterr site directly. If you find a tab that you would like to download, you can easily copy & paste the tab’s URL into Tab Grabber and click the appropriate button to download the tab. This saves you several steps from doing it manually from the tab’s page on Songsterr.
• Plus version: As an alternative to copy & pasting the tab’s URL, you can simply drag the URL from your browser’s URL box into the Tab Grabber window. If a valid tab page is detected, it will automatically download the tab file featured on that page without having to click any extra buttons.
• All downloaded tabs are placed into the “Downloaded Tabs” folder and will use “Artist – Song Title.gpX” formatting for the saved filenames.
• Test drive it for free for 7 days with the free trial license!

• Lightning-quick at searching and downloading Guitar Pro tab files directly from Songsterr
• Saves the tab files with the Artist and Song Title automatically added. No more manually downloading tabs and having to rename them!
• PLUS version features:
  • Select multiple tabs at once in the search results to download them all at once
  • Sort the search results by artist or song title and in ascending or descending order
  • Ability to open the tab’s Songsterr page(s) in your default browser from within the app’s search results to check them out before downloading
  • Right-click in the search results to quickly download the selected tab(s) or view them in your web browser
  • Drag & drop a Songsterr URL from your browser’s URL box to the Tab Grabber window to automatically and immediately download the tab file featured on that page
  • More plus features to come!
  • A paid Plus license key allows for activation on two computers owned by you and never expires

You may use the free version as much as you wish, but be sure to at least take advantage of the free 7 day trial license. If you find it useful and would like more features in the long-term, please consider purchasing the Plus version. Purchasing the Plus version not only gets you great features right now, but also helps encourage active development in the future!

This app would be useless without Songsterr’s amazing database of Guitar Pro tabs! Please consider supporting them by either purchasing one of their mobile apps (iPhone, iPad or Android) or a subscription to Songsterr Plus.

Songsterr is great for a quick online practice session, and especially with their mobile versions. It got me started on learning bass after playing drums for over 30 years. I do still use it occasionally but my preferred method these days is using a great app called Go PlayAlong. In fact, if I’m to be honest, Go PlayAlong got me so hooked on learning new songs that it was a huge inspiration for what would become Tab Grabber! As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and knowing how to invent (program, in this case) has its benefits! 😉

What’s great about GPA is that it allows you to sync up a Guitar Pro tab file with an MP3 of the actual song! It does this automatically but in some cases some manual tweaking is required. On a side note, this often reveals flaws in the tabs such as missing or extra bars, wrong notes, etc. But hey, it’s better than nothing, and if you also have the Guitar Pro (or the free TuxGuitar) software then you can edit them and fix the flaws then sync it up again in GPA.

I really can’t say enough about Go PlayAlong! It truly was a game changer for me and after I began using it to play along to the actual songs perfectly synced with the tab, my ability to play more and more songs skyrocketed. Still had to put hours and hours and hours of practice in, but it’s amazing what playing along to the real song can do, and especially when the tab file is synced right up to it!

For more info, see the Go PlayAlong and Guitar Pro web sites. For a free and open source alternative to Guitar Pro, check out TuxGuitar.

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