Hi Kenneth,

i have guitar pro 7 and I just went to take a look to see if that file format can be imported, however, I didn’t see that file format as an option.

Whether you use guitar pro or another type of software like it, I think it’s a great tool to have for those that are learning and writing music. It’s helped me to learn really difficult Billy Strings songs by slowing them down

G thanks a lot for looking but that kind of sucks LOL. I was hoping that they would. I can see a great opportunity for members to exchange  some of their work. Of course it can still be done with PDF's. We can't expect Devin to respond to all our requests but he gives us the tools to work stuff out on our own. It would  be up to Devin but, a members only repository of music we have tabbed out  that could be up or downloaded.

Not a bad idea.

I wonder who in the group would be up for doing that?

I personally really enjoy transcribing music.

I don't really write much of my own music mainly because I feel like there’s so much Good stuff out there that I really want to learn in my free time. 

Yes I put this out as a feeler to see who or how many may be interested. I know Guitar pro costs like $75 bucks and if you are like me on a fixed income Musescore my be an alternative it is free and has Windows and Apple versions. Like you have said @G I think there are learning benefits too especially if you are like me and don't read a lick of music. Here is the download page for musescore.

https://musescore.org/en/download

I think and use Guitar Pro 7.5 and have used it since version 3. I do not write songs but only use them to file away songs that I am interested in. Guitar Pro makes it easy to play the music, loop the music, and edit the music. What more do you need?

James Rouse

Yeah I think it’s only 65 bucks.

seems like a no brainer to me.

I agree with ya all. I have also noticed that by transcribing I learn the notes and chords faster seams to work with the lyrics too.I have a Bluegrass Fakebook with no tablature but a lot of good old traditional songs certain ones I am transcribing.

I've just started working with Guitar Pro recently and really enjoy it. A good Bluegrass resource on Youtube is "Lessons with Marcel". He uses GuitarPro and transcribes various Bluegrass tunes, as well as he plays them. Very interesting to watch his process.

I have also messed around with Musescore. You could export your music out of Musescore in MusicXML format and then import that into GuitarPro.

Thank you Douglas that is great to know in fact I just tried it even though I don't use GP it flawlessly imported back to MScore. For those interested the format looks like "some file name".musicxml. I don't know if Devin has any issues with us sharing back and forth maybe he can address this. There may be issues with copyrights but there are just so many that are public domain and they should not be a problem. The music I have been working on is generally very simple and easy to learn. Even though I practice all Devin's lessons, I sometimes get a little frustrated and need to play something more manageable. I would be willing to upload an example of one in PDF, and musicscore formats to see what people think.

I use Strum Machine for chords and timing.

Had to check that out. Technology sure has a lot to offer these days that sure looks like a fun way to learn.

I wish we had computers back in the old days. When I was in college, back when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, working my music education degree,  I would have paid every cent I had for these programs.