Fretwright: Guitar Tab Maker

Fretwright is a free guitar and bass tab maker for Android. Write tablature with real rhythm, the playing techniques guitarists use and chord names, hear it played back, read it as printed pages, and export it as PDF, text tab, MusicXML or MIDI. It opens text tabs, MusicXML and .gp3, .gp4 and .gp5 files. Every feature is free, there is no limit on the number of tabs, and it needs no account. WRITE TABS FAST - Tap the tab, then type the fret on a number pad (two quick digits make 12) or tap it on a fretboard (left-handed too) - Note values from whole to 1/32, dots, triplets, rests and ties, with stems and beams under the tab - Hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides (to the next note, legato, in and out), bends (full, half, quarter, release, pre-bend), vibrato, palm mute, let ring, natural and artificial harmonics, dead and ghost notes, accents, staccato, grace notes, tremolo picking and strum direction - Undo and redo, copy, paste, duplicate and transpose bars SONGS, NOT JUST RIFFS - Guitar (6, 7 and 8 strings), bass (4, 5 and 6), ukulele and banjo; standard, drop, open and down tunings, or set each string; capo - Time signatures that change, repeat signs, first and second endings, section names and tempo changes - Chord names above the tab: name the notes you wrote, or get playable shapes for any chord name, worked out for your tuning and capo, and write them as a strum - Lyrics under the beats and text above them - Several tracks per song HEAR IT - Playback with a plucked-string synthesizer made for guitar and bass (a Karplus-Strong model): bends, slides, hammer-ons, vibrato and palm mutes are heard - Speed from 25% to 150% without changing pitch, a count-in, a metronome, and a loop over the bars you select - The tab follows the music as it plays - A practice log: time spent and the best speed for the whole tab and for each passage you looped PAGE VIEW AND STAGE MODE - The page view shows the tab as it prints on Letter or A4: title, tuning, chord diagrams, then the tab with its rhythm - Stage mode fills the screen with big pages, keeps the screen on, and turns pages with a tap, the volume keys or a page-turn pedal that works as a Bluetooth keyboard FREE EXPORTS - PDF on Letter or A4, text tab (.txt), MusicXML for notation programs, MIDI with every track, audio (WAV), and the app's own file to move a tab to another phone OPEN FILES - Text tabs (pasted or .txt): frets, bar lines and technique letters are read; the rhythm is guessed from the spacing - MusicXML (.musicxml, .xml, .mxl), with or without string and fret numbers - .gp3, .gp4 and .gp5 files, from your files or with Open with and Share from chat apps and mail - Newer .gpx and .gp files can't be opened yet; the app says so and explains how to export a .gp5 or MusicXML instead YOUR TABS STAY SAFE - Saved on the phone a moment after every change, one file per tab written in one piece - The previous version kept beside each tab, the last 12 versions on hand, and a bin for 30 days - Back up every tab to one zip and restore it on another phone; nothing is overwritten HONEST LIMITS - The .gp3, .gp4 and .gp5 reader was tested on 39 real files saved by the desktop program (chords, techniques, repeats, two voices, a five-track song) and on files built from the format's published description, not on every kind of song. Compare an imported song with the original. - No standard notation staff yet: tab with rhythm. You edit the first voice of a track; drum tracks from files are shown, not played. - The sound is synthesized on the phone, not recorded instruments. In English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French. Tabs stay on your phone; nothing is uploaded. Free with ads, none while you edit, play or read a tab; an optional one-time purchase removes them. Privacy policy: https://fernhartlabs.com/privacy