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I don't read music very well but I'm pretty good at reafing guitar tabs. I love that BIAB has a tab display option but the tabs shown up as a separate ledger under the musical notes ledger. This is ok but needlessly adds stuff I don't use on the screen and prints out on many sheets. I'd like to see a tabs only option. Just the chords above the measures along with the tabs.
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Always wanted this feature. They have it in Guitar Pro and any other number of transcription programs. Don't really know anything about programming TBH, but I imagine it would not take more than a couple of hours to add that option.
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Is it possible to transfer files from BIAB to Guitar Pro to get good tab notation?
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I don't have Guitar Pro, but does it import MIDI or Music XML? BIAB can export those formats. MIDI won't include chord symbols, but XML will.
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Thanks for the tip! I exported one song from BIAB as MIDI then imported it into a trial version of Guitar Pro. Took some figuring out, but it works. I imported just the melody track then found a semi hidden place to turn off the music notes and just leave the tab. I have to do some clean up on notes played on the wrong strings but no big deal. The other issue is even though I turn off the notes it draws rythm lines extending below the tabs so there is still a lot of wasted space. So back to BIAB this seems like it should be a really easy fix. Just provide a button like Guitar Pro has to turn off the notes and just leave the tab.
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Some of the guitarists on this forum may have more advice.
Does Guitar Pro read Music XML?
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Yes I found out that it does read XML. I saved the guitar tabs from BIAB as XML then imported the XML into Guitar Pro. I got the tabs and chords, just what I wanted, with nothing extra. Thanks a lot! I celebrated by playing Take the A Train from the tabs.
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Cool!
May I recommend you take two actions:
1) edit your original post topic to add "-SOLVED" on the end
2) post your finding in a new post in the Off-Topic Forum. That's where we typically discuss music software other than PG Music products.
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Cool!
May I recommend you take two actions:
1) edit your original post topic to add "-SOLVED" on the end
2) post your finding in a new post in the Off-Topic Forum. That's where we typically discuss music software other than PG Music products.
I suggest that you also post it in the tips and tricks forum. PS - without notation I am lost with tabs! We never had them when I started playing guitar. Having both tabs and notes is the only way to go for myself. YMMV.
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Have a look at the free TuxGuitar it will show just Tab from midi and open GPX files.
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