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Apple Logic Pro 8 User Manual

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Chapter 33

Working With Notation

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Click the Settings button in the Arrange Toolbar, choose Score from the menu, then
click Guitar Tab.

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Choose Layout > Guitar Tablature.

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Use the Settings: Guitar Tablature key command.

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Double-click on the TAB clef, at the beginning of any staff that uses tablature in the
score.

Twelve different tuning sets can be defined. Each of them corresponds to one line in
this tab. The regular guitar and bass tunings are already included as defaults (first line
and last five lines), as are some of the more common guitar tunings.

Parameters Available for Every Tuning Set

 Name: Can be changed in the text entry field that opens when you double-click on

the Name field.

 Strings: Number of strings (four, five, or six)
 Assign: The method Logic Pro uses for automatically assigning notes to strings (see

Assign section below).

 1 to 6: The pitches that the open strings are tuned to.

Other Common Parameters:

 Font button: Click to choose a font, font size, and face for the display of fret numbers.
 Alignment buttons: Click to determine the alignment of numbers to the stem: You

can choose: to the side, or centered.