Tablight
Overview
Tab
Chord
Key
Scale
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tab
chords
capo
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tab spacing
?
A tab tells you
which
note and
where
, but nothing about
how long
.
Tab spacing
adds that: once a tab has a recorded take, the gap between digits follows how long each note actually lasts, so a held note visibly takes more room than a quick one.
It is a reading aid — it works with nothing playing at all, and it is the spacing alone that changes: the staff itself reads the same as ever.
Without a recording there is nothing to measure, so the spacing stays even. Give the tab a take with the
record demo
and it comes to life.
It does change how your tab looks. Switch it off and the tab comes back exactly as you wrote it, character for character.
chord cards
?
Chord cards
draws each chord as a
diagram
— the grip, on a small neck — underneath its name, instead of the name alone.
With the cards showing,
tap one to strum it
and hear the shape.
record
speed
100%
gap
1.5s
✕ clear recording
runway
?
The
runway
is a lane under the tab staff with a tick for every note. Press
▶ loop
and a dot travels it, reaching the next tick exactly as the note sounds.
That is the whole idea: you keep reading the digits, and the corner of your eye tells you when the next one is due — so you can play along instead of chasing the cursor.
Strike
is the flash as the dot lands. Turn it off if you would rather it arrived quietly.
It runs on a
loop
only, where the timing is real. Without a recording the loop plays a note per beat, which is still a steady pulse to play to.
runway
strike
display
dark mode
Tab
?
Tab
— the tablature staff, read from your input and shown with the
tuning
and
capo
detected from it.
A chord that belongs to a staff isn't drawn here — it appears in
Chords
on the right as a standalone interactive chord line.
A chord that belongs to a staff isn't drawn here — it appears in
Chords
below as a standalone interactive chord line.
tuning
—
capo
—
Enter your tab
to see the analysis
Transpose
?
Transpose
— shifts the whole song up or down in pitch while
keeping the capo where it is
. Unlike Easy Chords, this really changes the key you hear.
steps
moves by a number of half steps — e.g.
2
up a whole tone,
-1
down a semitone.
highest
transposes so the song's highest note lands on a pitch you name (e.g.
F3
) — handy for fitting a singer's range.
steps
highest
Transpose
—
Chords
?
Chords
— the chord lines and text lines found in your tablature.
When a text line has a chord line above it, the interactive chord line sits right on top of that text.
When a chord belongs to a staff instead, it shows up here as a standalone interactive chord line.
Standalone text lines appear here too.
Flip
show diagrams
for fingerings, and tap a chord to hear it strummed.
—
Easy Chords
?
Easy Chords
— looks for
capo positions that make the song easier to play
: fewer barre chords, or simpler ones. It does
not
change the pitch — the song sounds exactly the same.
Pick a suggestion (or type a fret and press
Set Capo
) to reshape the chords for that capo. If your input also has a tab staff, its notes are re-fretted to match, so you get a complete tab in the new capo position.
This is
not
a transpose. To actually move the song's pitch with a capo, go to
Overview
, add a line such as
capo: 3rd fret
, and Analyse again — that sets the capo there and shifts the song.
—
fret
Set Capo
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