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Hi!

I've searched in the forum and on Youtube, but I didn't find much information about how to edit bass tabs (respectively guitar tabs).

In particular, I'd like to know things like:

  • How to enter new notes as a number of the bass tab?
  • How to change an already existing note via bass tab?
  • How to change just the number of a tab without changing the note (e.g.: I want the same C to be shown as a 3 on the A-string instead of an 8 on the E-string - or vice versa)?


I've already figured out a couple of such things (e.g. entering notes by clicking on the fretboard), but I think that my knowledge about editing tabs is still quite incomplete and that I might not be able to find the most efficient method for what I need to do in a specific case. So maybe PG could make a systematic video tutorial about that?


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The video would be very short I think, because editing the tabs themselves is not possible, nor is entering notes via the tabs, at least I haven't found a way to do that yet. But it would be a great option, especially for double bass tabs, which use by their nature quite different positions then electric bass tabs.


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Brille, if you click on the BiaB fretboard while in note editing mode, BiaB puts that fret number into the written tab.

I just thought there would exist more options, but maybe I just appreciate that at least this is possible laugh


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Move2Groove,
Well, that's not really editing the tabs themselves, of course :-) It's basically more complicated because you have to move around in two windows (Fretboard and Notation View) and also move the position marker for each new note.
And there is a second unpleasant effect: Band in a Box arbitrarily changes the position of the notes in the tabs. An "A" that was just set to 2nd fret on G-string suddenly moves to the 7th fret on the D-string without any logic.

At least I guess, we better should move this topic to the wish list – it would be great to have possibilities and more options to directly edit the tabs.


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Hey Brille,

yeah you're right - I'll post it in the wishlist.


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