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Software for creating music sheets (feddit.org)
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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.

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[-] mrnarwall@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Noteworthy composer has a free edition that I've used before. It was somewhat basic, but it gets the job done

[-] hagelslager@feddit.nl 46 points 1 week ago

Musescore?

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago
[-] hagelslager@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Woops, my bad! Thanks for the addition!

[-] mrbn@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 ".

[-] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I would recommend this version, it is more active. Found it when reading through the SourceForge comments.

https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar

[-] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Nice to see that there's still dev activity at Tux Guitar.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Hi I didn't know this project!

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I adore lilypond and emacs

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Just got into lilypond recently and the output is really high quality. It is clear a lot of care went into its design.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

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...

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] octade@soc.octade.net 14 points 1 week ago

- lilypond
- denemo
- musescore (has chord symbols and playback)
- songwrite
- tuxguitar
- chordii
- nted
- sweep
- rosegarden

[-] talou@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago

I'm daily using ABC notation with abcm2ps/abc2midi...

[-] testingtesting123@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Tuxguitar has a fork with update development (android version included), and for looking up chords (guitar) you can check there is "fretboard" in flathub.

[-] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fretboard is for looking up chords, I reckon

Edit: nvm. Misread your comment as "looking up chords (guitar) on Flathub"

[-] testingtesting123@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

My bad, English is not my mother tongue. Tuxguitar has also for chords and yu can add them to pdfs when printing.

[-] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

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

[-] n0x0n@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Wonder why no one has mentioned lilypond so far.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I guess, you don't see this comment: https://lemmy.ca/comment/13390925

[-] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Frescobaldi as a front-end for Lilypond is quite nice as well

[-] RedBauble@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I think xournal++ has a journal background to handwrite music

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