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User’s Handbook for Version 6 – updated Oct. 2011 - 9

Understanding Notation

It is recommended that you know how to read tablature and have a few notions of rhythm before you use

Guitar Pro. Following is a quick overview of some basic notions.

1. Reading tablature

Tablature notation was created to make music easier to read for fretted instruments. It can be learned

quickly, and you do not really need to know any musical theory. What it shows are the strings that are

played, which actually is important since any given note can be played on different strings.

Each guitar string is represented by a line. The numbers indicate on

which frets the fingers must press to play the notes. “0” means that the

string is played open — that is, without pressing on any fret. The lowest

line represents the lowest-pitched string (low E), while the top line

represents the highest-pitched string of the guitar (high E). This actually

corresponds to what you see when you lean over your guitar, as opposed

to what you see when you are facing it.

2. Understanding Rhythm

Notes can have different durations. A note’s duration is not expressed in seconds, but as a multiple of the

tempo. A quarter note is one beat. The tempo is expressed in bpm (beats per minute). So if the tempo is

60, a quarter note lasts 1 second. If the tempo is 120, the quarter note is ½ second. The other notes are

defined relative to the whole note — on the staff below are a whole note (bar 1), then two half-notes (bar

2), four quarter-notes (bar 3), and eight eighth-notes (bar 4):

When a note is dotted, its duration is one and a half times its original

value (x1.5):

N-tuplets (triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets...) consist in playing a certain

number of notes in a given time-spam. For example, a triplet of eighth

notes (3 x ½ beats = 1.5 beat) is played on one beat; or a quintuplet of

eighth notes (5 x ½ beats = 2.5 beats) also on one beat, as illustrated by

the following:

Time and key signatures:

The time signature sets the number of beats per bar. For example, for a time

signature of ¾: the 4 indicates that the reference time is the quarter note, and the 3

indicates that there are 3 beats per bar. In this case, there are 3 quarter-notes in a

bar.

The key signature tells you what accidentals (sharps or flats) are systematic in the

score.

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