Interactive guitar tabs built to be practised, not just read
Write tablature on six strings, play it back in time, loop the bar that keeps falling apart and slow it down until it is clean. Keep it private or publish it for other players.
A real six-string editor
Place notes across all six strings, organise bars, set the tempo and add the techniques a tab needs: hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and palm mutes. The score stays readable while you work instead of turning into a spreadsheet.
Control the passage that is failing
Loop a bar range and drop the tempo until the passage is accurate, then walk it back up. Playback follows the score so you never lose your place in a repeat.
Import what you already have
Bring compatible tablature into the workspace in the portable tab format and keep it beside the rest of your material rather than in a downloads folder.
Publish it, or do not
Every tab starts as a draft only you can open. Publishing puts your author name on it, lists it in the shared library and lets other signed-in players open it, practise it and vote it up or down. Unpublish and it goes back to being a draft.
From a rough riff to a repeatable practice loop
A tab you can only read is a picture. A tab you can play, slow down and loop is a practice tool. The gap between those two things is where most progress on a difficult piece actually happens, and it is the gap a static tab site cannot close.
In Guitar PS the loop is short: capture the idea in the editor, open it in the player, isolate bars 17 to 24, take the tempo down to something honest, and repeat until it is clean. The tab stays in your library, so tomorrow you start from where you stopped instead of searching for the same page again.
Tablature, sheet music and chord charts in one library
Interactive tabs sit next to PDF and MusicXML scores and ChordPro chord charts in the same account library, filed by title and artist. The three formats keep their own sections so a set list of chord charts does not get mixed into a folder of classical scores.
Published items from every format appear in the shared library with their author and vote score, which is how you find a version of a song that someone else has already transcribed carefully.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I create my own guitar tabs?
- Yes. The tab editor supports notes on all six strings, bar organisation, tempo, and common playing techniques including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and palm mutes.
- Can I slow down a guitar tab?
- Yes. Playback tempo is adjustable, and you can loop a selected range of bars so a difficult passage repeats at a slower speed until it is accurate.
- Can I import guitar tablature?
- Yes. Guitar PS accepts its portable tab format, so compatible tablature can be moved into your library.
- Are my guitar tabs private?
- New tabs are drafts that only your account can open. They become visible to other signed-in players only when you choose to publish them, and you can unpublish at any time.
- Can other people see tabs I publish?
- Yes. A published tab appears in the shared library under your author name, where other signed-in players can open it, practise it and vote it up or down.
- Is the guitar tab editor free?
- Yes. Writing, importing, editing, playing and publishing tablature is free, with no paid tier.
- Do I need to read standard notation?
- No. Tablature shows string and fret numbers. Standard notation is available for players who want it, but nothing in the tab workflow requires it.