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Sibelius Tutorials 2018.6-75

Sibelius can convert standard musical notation to guitar tab notation with a few clicks. It can also convert tab notation back to standard notation. To write tab notation in Sibelius, users enter note values on the appropriate string using the numeric keypad while in note input mode.

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Sibelius Tutorials 2018.6-75

Sibelius can convert standard musical notation to guitar tab notation with a few clicks. It can also convert tab notation back to standard notation. To write tab notation in Sibelius, users enter note values on the appropriate string using the numeric keypad while in note input mode.

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Convert to Tab

Sibelius can instantly turn standard notation into tab notation.

To convert standard notation to tab notation:


1 Choose Home > Instruments > Change.

Press Command+Option+Shift+I (Mac) or Control+Alt+Shift+I (Windows) to change notation.

2 In the Find field, type Electric Guitar, standard tuning [tab].


3 Click OK. The mouse pointer turns dark blue to show that it is “carrying” an object.
4 Click the to the left of the initial barline at the very start of the first system of the Electric Guitar staff.

The notation staff is changed into a six-string tab staff automatically and all the music is converted into tab notation. You can copy music
to and from this tab staff using Option-click (Mac) or Alt+click (Windows). Sibelius automatically transcribes copied music into the ap-
propriate notation for the staff type.

Writing Tab Notation


To enter tab notation:
1 Select the bar rest in bar 21 of the Ellectric Guitar staff.
2 Press N to start Note Input and make sure you have the first Keypad layout showing (press F7 to be sure).
3 Type 3 0 (on the numeric keypad) to input an eighth note rest.
4 Press the Up Arrow once to move up to the fourth string and type 4 (on the main keyboard).
5 Add a staccato articulation using the Keypad.
6 Advance to the next position by pressing the Right Arrow key and then type 4 (on the numeric keypad) to select a quarter note.
7 Press the Up Arrow twice to move up to the second string and type 1 (on the main keyboard).
8 Move up to the first string and type 1 again.

You should see the following:


1
 1

4 4

9 Now input the remainder of the last four bars as tab.

      
1 0 1 X X 1 0 1 7 6 5 6 X X 6 5 6 7 6
 1 0 1
  X
 X
 1 0 1
  X
5
5  0 6
4
5
3
6
4   X
X  X
X  6
4
5
3
6
4   7
6
6
5
4 4 3 4 X X 4 3 4 X 4 5 4

10 Now turn the guitar tab staff back to conventional notation using an instrument change.

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Writing for Guitar

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