TabStar - Overview

 
 
TabStar offers more than just the ability to create publisher quality tablature sheet music through an always available and very accessible website. TabStar gives you the powerful KeyFinder which can analyse your songs chords and tab and tell you what musical key it is written in. TabStar also allows you to upload audio files to associate with your tablature bars so all your songs are together in one place.
 
 

The main benefits of using TabStar are listed below:

  • Create high quality guitar tablature
  • Use intuitive drag and drop
  • Upload sound files for the bars of your songs
  • Access your guitar tab from any pc connected to the internet
  • Parse ugly/difficult to read tabs into TabStar to create high quality readable guitar sheet music
  • Use Tab X-Tractor to parse tabs from your favourite tab websites straight in to TabStar without leaving the external website!
  • Have KeyFinder analyse your sheet music and give you key and chord suggestions
  • Use TabStar's vast 'Key/Scale Reference' section with hundreds of chords grouped by key which can be linked from your own songs using KeyFinder!
  • Benefit from the vast choice of chords in 'Preset Chord' drop down lists
  • Use TabStar's Sharing Centre to share your guitar tabs and work collaboratively on songs with complete control over who can see and edit them
  • Use Riff Manager to record your ideas, no matter how small. Keep them safe until you are ready to develop them in to a new song, or incorporate them into existing songs
  • Convert your guitar tabs in to Ultra-High Quality PDFs. See an example here:
      PDF  View The Demo Song As A PDF
  • Validate your songs against your chosen key using Song Validation and let TabStar highlight notes which fall outside the key helping you create accurate songs every time.
  • Parse guitar tablature from third party websites using TabStar's Parser. Convert them into high quality tablature and view them as PDF. You can even parse text-file-tabs you have saved on your PC!
 
TabStar has been created from the ground up to make creating guitar tablature a quick, easy and fun experience. Although at first glance a complicated task, many short cuts exist to help you build your songs quickly.
 
 

Some common shortcuts to help you build your songs quickly are listed below:

  • Choose pre-defined chords to save creating them by hand
  • Drag and drop entire chords on to the Tablature Grids using the chord lists
  • Dropped chords can be pulled appart to help create single note picking sections
  • Chords added to songs appear in the Your Chords list of each Tablature Grid
  • Sound files can be associated with bars to help you remember how parts were originally intended to sound
  • KeyFinder can limit choices in drop down lists to only those in your specified (or found) key
  • Use the Cut/Copy/Paste features in the Create Tablature page to quickly build songs as there is no need to drag out repeating bars, just copy and paste!
  • Riff Manager's integration in to the Create Tablature page means you can insert whole riffs at any point in any song you are creating
  • You can use TabStar's Sharing Centre to share your guitar tablature with your friends and allow them to edit it (if you wish) so you can work collaboratively to build your sheet music quicker
 
 
 

 

 
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