User’s Handbook for Version 6 – updated Oct. 2011 - 20
Adding Symbols Guitar Pro allows you to insert all of the musical symbols into the score, and particularly those specific to the guitar. Most of these symbols are taken into account whenever the score is being played. Certain effects or musical symbols can be applied to a selection of notes — e.g., Let Ring, Palm Mute, etc. The symbols can be found on the Edition panel. 1. Symbols related to the bar
Clef The Clef is an indication, in standard notation, as to which notes correspond to the lines. Guitar Pro handles 4 types of Clef (G-, F-, C3-, and C4-Clef), as well as 4 types of octave clefs (8va, 15va, 8vb, 15vb). Whenever you change clefs, you can transpose the notes to keep the same pitch. Key Signature The key signature tells you which notes are meant to be altered by default — unless an accidental appears next to the note on the score. It thus indicates the tone in which the piece or passage is written. It is the same for every track, aside from transposing instruments when you are using the transposing tone mode (e.g., Bb clarinet) automatically managed by Guitar Pro. Time Signature The time signature indicates the durations of beats in the bars following that signature: the bottom digit corresponds to the number of divisions of the whole note, and the top one gives you the number of units in a bar (see Understanding Notation). Whenever a bar is complete according to the time signature, Guitar Pro will directly move on to the next bar if you add a note. Incomplete or overlooked bars will appear in red. If you have checked the Anacrusis option (Edit > Anacrusis), the first and last bars will not appear in red even when they are not completed. Triplet Feel Among other things, the triple feel means you play in a ternary way some bars that are written in binary mode for the sake of lightness of writing. Guitar Pro offers several motifs, the most common being the triplet feel 8th which lets you play a 4/4 signature in blues style, for instance. Free time Free-time bars are bars that are played freely in terms of rhythm and tempo. The barlines then appear as dotted lines and the time signature is in parentheses. Double bar-lines A double bar-line indicates a change of parts, of signature, or any other major change in the score. Guitar Pro inserts them automatically at every change of signature. You can also add more bar-lines with the button here to the left whenever you consider a change in the score to be important enough. Simple repeat sign This symbols means that the bar is meant to repeat exactly the bar preceding it. This makes editing and reading lighter, and will not work on the first bar of a score. Double repeat sign This symbol means that you are supposed to repeat exactly the two preceding bars. It will not work if placed on the first two bars of a score. Repeat open
Copyright © 1997-2012 Arobas Music – All rights reserved www.guitar-pro.com