Cool Trick For Those Who Like To Jam To Guitarpro Tracks..., and like downtunings
ZakkWylde
Mar 25 2009, 11:01 PM
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Hey guys and girls!

I just figured something out when I was playing along some drop tuned metal song with guitar pro tabs:

If you can not tune to the tuning of the song (strings not thick enough, no tuner, locking tremolo...) then why not tune the song into your tuning?!?!?

For example: You have your guitar tuned to E standard and want to play an Arch Enemy song that is tuned to C standard (4 HALFSTEPS DOWN!!!) then you must not buy thick strings and set your guitar up, you take the guitar pro tab of this song and select the guitar tracks by clicking on the name of the track (for example *lead* or *Player Name*).

A window will appear that's called track settings, and it will show you how each string is tuned. Select the standard tuning from the scroll down menu and click OK. Guitar pro will now ask if you want to transpond the track, where you select no.
Now change all string instrument tracks the same way into your standard E tuning and don't let guitarpro transpond it!

The whole song is now set to your tuning, of course it is now in a higher key but the fingerings stay the same and you can practice the song!

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- ZakkWylde   Cool Trick For Those Who Like To Jam To Guitarpro Tracks...   Mar 25 2009, 11:01 PM
- - berko   Very useful advice! I have actually done this ...   Mar 25 2009, 11:05 PM
- - Pedja Simovic   This is great tip if you want to practice things i...   Mar 25 2009, 11:07 PM
- - Skalde   Yeah that is really useful, already knew this litt...   Mar 25 2009, 11:22 PM
- - Caelumamittendum   Being the Guitar Pro nerd that I am, I have known ...   Mar 25 2009, 11:51 PM
- - Bogdan Radovic   Very good tip!! Changing tuning but not tr...   Mar 25 2009, 11:52 PM
- - Farmer Joe   I'm pretty new to use guitar pro and this is d...   Mar 26 2009, 12:43 AM
- - Rated Htr   Tried it and gave up on it cause, either you aren...   Mar 26 2009, 03:42 AM
- - Marcus Lavendell   Cool trick! Thanks Zakk   Mar 26 2009, 07:49 AM
- - superize   Cool tip... Thanks for sharing   Mar 26 2009, 09:04 AM
- - Artemus   QUOTE (Caelumamittendum @ Mar 25 2009, 10...   Mar 26 2009, 09:07 AM
- - Sergio Dorado   Another way to tuning up guitar in guitar pro, and...   Mar 26 2009, 09:50 AM
- - David Wallimann   Great suggestion! Guitar Pro is really useful ...   Mar 26 2009, 12:54 PM
- - Fran   Thanks Zakk, that's pretty useful!   Mar 26 2009, 03:08 PM
- - kaznie_NL   Cool! Thanks!   Mar 26 2009, 04:38 PM
- - Roadside   ha that´s just what I´ve been doing for some ti...   Mar 26 2009, 04:49 PM
- - Mr T   Didn't know this yet. Thanks for the tip!   Mar 26 2009, 05:10 PM
- - Trond Vold   Thats a great tip indeed   Mar 26 2009, 05:32 PM
- - Canis   Didn't know this, thanks ^^ Then again, I don...   Mar 26 2009, 05:41 PM
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