This app is a tab editor. That means it will help you write, edit, and curate your own library of guitar sheet music.
We use our own flavor of the ChordPro standard to edit tab files.
To show where chords go, we use brackets:
My [C]Bonnie lies [F]over the [C]ocean
My [C]Bonnie lies [D]over the [G7]sea.
Use rows of dashes show tablature, or tab:
---0---------------|---0--------------
-----3-1-3-1-------|-----3-1-1-0-1-3--
-0-----------2-0---|-0----------------
-----------------2-|------------------
-------------------|------------------
-------------------|------------------
We’ll automatically recognize words like Verse, Chorus, Reprise and more on their own, and give them special formatting.
To turn any line into a heading, put a # sign at the very beginning.
Verse
My [C]Bonnie lies [F]over the [C]ocean
My [C]Bonnie lies [D]over the [G7]sea.
# Another heading
My [C]Bonnie lies [F]over the [C]ocean
TabBank uses ChordBank’s massive chord library to automatically find diagrams for most chords.
You can, however, define custom chords anywhere within your document.
C: x35553
For chords that fingerings above the 9th fret, add a space between each fret.
C: 8 10 10 9 8 8
Diagrams are also support for instruments like ukulele:
C: 0433
and Loog:
C: 010
You can use special keywords followed by a : to change a song’s metadata.
To set the title and artist, just use the title and artist keywords.
title: My Bonnie
artist: Traditional
You can change the instrument used to display chord diagrams at the top of displayed and printed songs.
instrument: guitar
Available options include:
guitaruke or ukuleleloogChanging the instrument associated with a song will change the diagrams to that instrument. Tapping on any diagram in “Practice & Play” mode will present a picker of all available diagrams of that chord for that instrument.
Add a capo to a song using the capo keyword. This will transpose up all diagrams by that amount.
capo: 2
