Guitar Pro to MusicXML free

Drop a Guitar Pro file and get MusicXML with both staves: the notation, and the tab under it with every note on its string and fret, in the file’s own tuning.

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Your file never leaves your computer. It is converted here, in this tab.

In short

SheetVideo converts Guitar Pro files (.gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4, .gp3) to MusicXML with a notation staff and a tab staff for guitar and bass, keeping the string and fret of every note, the tuning and the capo. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded: there is no server on the other end that sees it.

What comes across

A notation staff and a tab staff for every guitar and bass track; vocals and keys as notation
All the tracks, or only the ones you tick
The string and fret of every note
The tuning, including drop and open tunings, and the capo
Bends, hammer-ons and slides, as MusicXML technical marks
Tempo changes, time signatures, ties, tuplets and rests
Drum tracks as percussion notation

What does not, and why

Palm mutes, let ring and vibrato are not written yet
Lyrics and chord diagrams
Two voices on one staff come out as one voice of chords

Why convert Guitar Pro to MusicXML

Guitar Pro files only open properly in Guitar Pro and a few tab players. MusicXML opens almost everywhere: MuseScore (free), Sibelius, Dorico, Finale, and Guitar Pro itself. Converting is how a tab from Songsterr or an old .gp5 gets into MuseScore with the tab intact.

Most converters write guitar as notation only and let the receiving program guess the frets again. This one writes the tab staff with each note’s string and fret as they were in the Guitar Pro file, plus the tuning, so a drop D riff stays a drop D riff.

The file is read in your browser and never uploaded: there is no server on the other end that sees it.

Questions

Does the tab survive the conversion?

Will it open in MuseScore?

Which Guitar Pro versions work?

Is it really free?

Why these tools are free

They are pieces of SheetVideo

SheetVideo puts sheet music and tab on videos of people playing, lined up with the recording by listening to it. To do that it has to read every score format there is, and write them out again. These pages are those readers and writers, opened up. The video is the part that is paid, and only for full-length exports without the small mark.

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