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Guitar tab with the rhythm written in.

Open a Guitar Pro file and the count sits under every note, 1 e & a, so the rhythm is on the page and not only in the recording.

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It's free, it runs in your browser, and it doesn't want your email.
Open E riffA sketch to play along with
TuningStandard
Time4/4
Tempo100

Press play to hear it with a click. Try 50%.

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What each kind of tab tells you.

The same riff, written four ways. Each one is good at something.

ASCII tab
Guitar Pro
Sheet music
Jaiyen Tab
Which string and fret
you work it out
When each note comes
in symbols
in symbols
spaced in time
How long a note lasts
in symbols
in symbols
you see it
The count, 1 e & a
under every note
No symbols to learn
Hear it with a click
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Slow it down

Hear where it lands.

Press play and each count lights up as its note sounds, with a click on every beat. Too quick to follow? Try 50%. Everything slows down together, and every note keeps its count.

Tempo100

What's in it

The few things you need to practise a song, and nothing else.

Count under every note

Every note shows where it lands in the beat, so a fast run or an off-beat riff is as clear on the page as it is to your ear.

The whole song at a glance

The timeline under the tab is the whole song. It gets hilly where the notes get busy. Hover to peek at a bar, click to jump there.

Slow it down, loop it

Drag across the bars you want, pick a speed, and go round until it sits under your fingers.

A colour for every fret

Each fret has its own colour, in the tab and on the fretboard, so you can tell where a note lives without counting.

The story

Why I made this

I learned guitar from ASCII tabs on Ultimate Guitar in the 2000s, like everyone I knew. Tabs showed me where to play, but never when. I tried to learn sheet music for years. It never clicked, and on a guitar, where the same note sits in several places, it always felt like the wrong tool.

Guitar Pro helped, but the rhythm was still in symbols I couldn't read. Then I opened a MIDI editor, saw notes as blocks on a grid, and rhythm suddenly made sense. It was what I'd been doodling on squared paper in maths class all along: each square a slice of time, tapping along and filling them in.

So I put that grid under the tab: the frets you already know, with the count under every note and time laid out so you can see it.

If you learned like that too, I made this for you.

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Questions

Do I need to read music?

No. It's tab, with the count added.

Which files work?

Guitar Pro files: .gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4 and .gp3.

Is it free?

Yes, for now, while it's new.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes, in your phone's browser. A laptop or tablet fits more tab on the screen, though.

Where do my songs go?

Nowhere. They stay in your browser, on your own device. Nothing gets uploaded.

Can I teach with it?

Yes. Open a song together, slow it down, and loop the bars you're working on. The count sits next to the frets for both of you.

Open a song. See how it goes.

Any Guitar Pro file: .gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4 or .gp3.

Open the app
It's free, it runs in your browser, and it doesn't want your email.