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Hello everyone, I am looking for software to write music sheets and tabs. A friend and music teacher uses Guitar Pro, but it's a little pricey for my occasional use.
It doesn't have to be an all-in-one solution. So for example, if you know a piece of software that does just cord visualization that's also highly appreciated.
- lilypond
- denemo
- musescore (has chord symbols and playback)
- songwrite
- tuxguitar
- chordii
- nted
- sweep
- rosegarden
Noteworthy composer has a free edition that I've used before. It was somewhat basic, but it gets the job done
Tuxguitar has a fork with update development (android version included), and for looking up chords (guitar) you can check there is "fretboard" in flathub.
Fretboard is for looking up chords, I reckon
Edit: nvm. Misread your comment as "looking up chords (guitar) on Flathub"
My bad, English is not my mother tongue. Tuxguitar has also for chords and yu can add them to pdfs when printing.
Don't fret. I was the one reading quickly, leading to a misreading. Hence why I was able to spot my mistake upon re-reading your comment
Wonder why no one has mentioned lilypond so far.
I'm daily using ABC notation with abcm2ps/abc2midi...
I think xournal++ has a journal background to handwrite music
Tux Guitar comes to mind but some things like chord diagrams isn't done as well as guitar pro (imo).
For chord diagrams (like at the top of GP), there's hundreds of websites out there which show those and its probably quicker to just use those. I'll usually just search "C chord ".
I would recommend this version, it is more active. Found it when reading through the SourceForge comments.
Hi I didn't know this project!
Nice to see that there's still dev activity at Tux Guitar.
I adore lilypond and emacs
Just got into lilypond recently and the output is really high quality. It is clear a lot of care went into its design.
Tiny bit of context: LilyPond is basically LaTeX for sheet music.
Really good for transcribing and if you enjoy working with text.
But it does have somewhat of a learning curve, which might not be worth it for occasional use...
I have written a template that I can just add notes to in a very simple notation and I get three scores, one tabbed for chromatic, one tabbed for a diatonic, and one without tabs to practice sight reading. Now that I've done the work, it's super easy to take notes (no pun intended, but not a bad one) and embed it in my org journal or whatever. It did take me three or four hours to get everything working just the way I wanted. The output is gorgeous!