Tablature Editing Software Program

Enter tab and ask to see the standard notation or vice versa. The standard notation is correctly laid out with bar lines, sharps, flats, naturals etc. following the standard conventions (e.g. it doesn't use flats in sharp keys). The amount of function is huge - for instance you could:

1. Enter some music in guitar tablature
2. Play it back to check it sounds right.
3. Notice that all the Fs in the standard version were sharped so...
4. Change the key signature in the standard version to G (and all the accidentals go away - automagically)
5. Re-tune the guitar to (say) open D tuning and have it work out optimised tablature for that tuning.
6. Copy all that to a second part and...
7. Change the tuning to mandolin and get optimised mandolin tab for the second part.
8. Transpose the tune up a tone and print a version for a friend with a clarinet.
9. Write a bass line in bass tab.
10. Play the tune with the bass (the clarinet version can be played a tone flat so that it plays in normal pitch along with the rest).
11. Add a harmony line (you can have up to eight parts)
12. Add some lyrics
13. Print a version with the air and lyrics, a clarinet version, a mandolin tab version, a bass tab version, a D-tuned guitar version and for good measure, a "score" with all the parts.

For instance bass guitar

Muse generates optimised tablature , working out fingerings for the piece as a whole.

You can enter the tab either from the keyboard (probably the quickest) or using the mouse. Either way it's very easy.

By mouse you select the length of the note (e.g. click on that note in the note palette), move it over the right string and press the mouse button down. A frets menu appears, select the right fret and take the button up. Could hardly be easier.

By keyboard, you move the cursor to the right place (e.g. by using the arrow keys), press space to activate entering frets, type the fret number and press return. You select note lengths either from menus or from the notes palette or by typing the short-cuts e.g. 4 gives a quarter note ("crotchet" in UK).

All of the usual facilities of Muse (cut, copy, paste, UNDO etc) work with tablature as well as the notation so you get a really high function editor.

This level of function normally comes at a high price. Muse is priced at 20 UK pounds (currently under 35 US dollars, there are several ways to pay). This is very cheap for a music editor with this degree of function!

You get 30 days free trial anyway - so don't pay anything at all unless you like it.