Hello!
I’m wondering if things have changed. I started learning guitar in 2010 or so, and back then at school we all had Guitar Pro or something similar and we used to learn by listening to the track and to the guitar pro tab in turns.
I’ve been seeing a lot of videos about computer virtual amps recently and realised the world of guitar has changed and I’ve been disconnected from it for a long time. Is the tab/guitar pro method still the popular one? How do you learn?
Since then, I’ve moved on to 100% by ear because there were no tabs for my artists anyway. But I’m just wondering what the world of guitar learning is like now?
Mostly using Songsterr, but it’s not always ideal. Back in the day I used Guitar Pro with tabs downloaded from Ultimate-Guitar but that’s no longer a thing anymore. Would have to pay subscription to both of them and probably STILL get a ton of incorrect tabs. I remember how many tabs I had to fix myself back then.
You don’t need a subscription to download tabs from UG only to see the tabs made by the editors. (Maybe you need a free account though.)
Tux Guitar is a free replacement for Guitar Pro. It’s not as good, but it works fine if you just want to view tabs and it has a neat training mode for playback.
I really dislike tuxguitar. Musescore is another alternative. Even though musescore is meant more as a scoring and engraving program, it works great for tabs too. The UI on tuxguitar is just so ugly imo lol.
Rocksmith mostly. If I can’t find a custom dlc of a song I want, I also have Guitar Pro 8 hooked up to Ableton Live for the same general experience.
I have Guitar Pro 8 hooked up to Ableton Live
What do you mean by this? I use both programs but don’t don’t have them connected in any way so I’m curious on what I might be missing out on.
I send the MIDI data from Guitar Pro out to Ableton where guitar/drum/bass simulators can interpret that data and reproduce the song with realistic instruments.
Basically replacing Guitar Pro’s RSE with much higher quality recordings. You don’t need to use Ableton, any DAW or VST host will work fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XnmciQKDA this video explains the process.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XnmciQKDA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I use tabs (mostly because I’m nowhere near good to enough to learn by ear). Songsterr is my go-to site
I feel online tabs are wrong more often than not. I prefer youtube tutorials, plus they can give you tips and tricks along the way.
I start off by looking at what’s available in Ultimate-guitar, then adjusting based on what I’m playing vs. what I’m hearing on the track.
