I just signed up for UG paid version.... Do they offer standard notation or just tab? I swear I used them before and was able to see standard notation.
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Ultimate Guitar Notation
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I'm using it on android phone.
Once you pick a song, the little 3-dot menu (top right on screen) brings up a list...Metronome, Tuner, Dark mode, count-in, etc.
Last on the list is Settings. hitting that gives me 2 more options, Standard Notation and Autofit.
It does seem this is only on the 'Official' versions of songs...ie the UG team-created versions.
Edit...just trying this now on Desktop computer, (not the app) and I can't get it...sorry.
Once you pick a song, the little 3-dot menu (top right on screen) brings up a list...Metronome, Tuner, Dark mode, count-in, etc.
Last on the list is Settings. hitting that gives me 2 more options, Standard Notation and Autofit.
It does seem this is only on the 'Official' versions of songs...ie the UG team-created versions.
Edit...just trying this now on Desktop computer, (not the app) and I can't get it...sorry.
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Their licensing model is somewhat confusing, with so many in-app purchases and differences between the crowd-sourced and official songs. However, a few UG representatives had a nice presentation at NAMM, and it seems they are really serious about what they are doing nowadays.
Just joined a band, and have 130+ songs to learn. I couldn't do it without Ultimate Guitar Pro and OnSong! (Well, I could, but it would take me months.) Amazing resources! UG's backing tracks and sequencing are getting better and better.
I have suggested that they not only offer standard notation, but files that can be exported to Guitar Pro 7 (another phenomenal resource!)
Edit: I just found standard notation on my iPad, but I don't think it's on PC yet.
I have suggested that they not only offer standard notation, but files that can be exported to Guitar Pro 7 (another phenomenal resource!)
Edit: I just found standard notation on my iPad, but I don't think it's on PC yet.
I don't think it's on android either. I cannot for the life of me find a way to toggle between the two.
I didn't actually try it, since I don't use the Android version, but found this:
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Official tabs, and any user-submitted tabs which are in gp type format can be shown in standard notation in ipad and android, but the web interface doesn't allow standard notation yet. I recently asked about it in a forum thread there; although the thread was about a year old saying they were working on it and expected it in the fall of 2019, when I prompted they said still coming soon, maybe this quarter.
ASCII tabs, obviously, cannot be automatically converted to standard notation.
[edit] The thread is here: Music Score/Notation desktop vs phone app
ASCII tabs, obviously, cannot be automatically converted to standard notation.
[edit] The thread is here: Music Score/Notation desktop vs phone app
As frustum said, songs in Guitar Pro (or Power Tab) can be shown in standard notation in their viewers.
I highly recommend Guitar Pro ($69.95US Guitar Pro - Sheet music editor software for guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and more...) or Tux Guitar (TuxGuitar). Tux Guitar is free, but the formatting and printing capabilities that you get with Guitar Pro make it well worth it. That said, it applies only to the non-phone version, Guitar Pro on a phone is brutal.
UG is great but the on-line player leaves a lot to be desired and you can't reformat anything for printing.
I highly recommend Guitar Pro ($69.95US Guitar Pro - Sheet music editor software for guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and more...) or Tux Guitar (TuxGuitar). Tux Guitar is free, but the formatting and printing capabilities that you get with Guitar Pro make it well worth it. That said, it applies only to the non-phone version, Guitar Pro on a phone is brutal.
UG is great but the on-line player leaves a lot to be desired and you can't reformat anything for printing.
When I tried to print notation from Android, it came out as tab. :-(
What I wound up doing is screenshots. Copy them to a cloud drive like OneDrive, then print it out on my windows pc.
Work in progress.
They used to have bass transcriptions in piano (e2 first line below staff). I suggested they make it e1 for bass and they have most of them that way, now. So they do listen to input.
Thousands of songs for what? 25 bucks a year? Pretty good deal.
What I wound up doing is screenshots. Copy them to a cloud drive like OneDrive, then print it out on my windows pc.
Work in progress.
They used to have bass transcriptions in piano (e2 first line below staff). I suggested they make it e1 for bass and they have most of them that way, now. So they do listen to input.
Thousands of songs for what? 25 bucks a year? Pretty good deal.
It's not the greatest for sure... But it's not the worst. The ONE thing I wish they would improve is when you play along, the player runs all the way down to the last line before it loads the next page. I put in a request to refresh the page on the SECOND to last line so we can read ahead while playing.
Another issue...
Does anyone one know how to decipher "Keyboard" and "Voice" tab? They have a lot of great "official" songs and I want to look up some keyboard and voice parts and they are in tab form.
Does anyone one know how to decipher "Keyboard" and "Voice" tab? They have a lot of great "official" songs and I want to look up some keyboard and voice parts and they are in tab form.
SAMPLE:
HAVE A CIGAR
Top left, if you click on the chords button it takes you to the lyrics page with chord names listed above the words.
Bottom left, click on the instrument button (bass in this example) and it gives you the other instruments like keys, guitar, voice, strings, etc.
Zoom in or out till you get the note size you want, then screen shot it.
It wraps so you don't lose anything when resizing.
The red tint is the app I use to save eye strain. I forgot to remove it before printing.
HAVE A CIGAR
Top left, if you click on the chords button it takes you to the lyrics page with chord names listed above the words.
Bottom left, click on the instrument button (bass in this example) and it gives you the other instruments like keys, guitar, voice, strings, etc.
Zoom in or out till you get the note size you want, then screen shot it.
It wraps so you don't lose anything when resizing.
The red tint is the app I use to save eye strain. I forgot to remove it before printing.
Yea, so.... Thanks, but I am looking for standard notation using the web app for bass, keyboards, and vocals which does not seem to be an offering. Here is an example of "keyboard tab"... How does one read tab for keys and vocals?
The web app does not support standard notation. More than a year ago they said it was right around the corner, but it hasn't been enabled yet. It is available only on the OSX and Android apps.
So the piano parts in the app are split between a treble clef and a tab. And all parts have the notation AND tab. I just want notation.
I poked around and I agree, there is no way to show just the staff and not the parallel tab. That is pretty sucky.
