Guitar Prompter
Do you enjoy playing guitar games? Are you angry about the limited amount of available songs to play? Don't like expensive subscriptions? Lack of your favorite songs?
Guitar Prompter is a tiny, free app for Windows that allows you to enjoy your guitar and favorite songs in a similar way as you did in those games.
Go to your favorite site with guitar tabs, find whatever you want to play, align it with an mp3 backing track and play it on your guitar in just a few minutes.
Guitar Prompter is an application that will display guitar TAB for you in an enjoyable way. To play with this app you will need:
Start by importing your tablature file.
Using "File->Add backing track.." option open your mp3 file.
Use blue position markers to align the tab with the music.
Use one of 3 available prompter modes to display the tab. Use playback speed controller to slow down playback, to learn harder parts.
| Icon | Shortcut | Action |
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F1 | Open library. The library shows your recently used songs. |
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Ctrl + S | Save edits to the current document. |
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F2, F3, F4 | Switch between Prompter views. There are 3 views available: 2D, 2.5D, and 3D. |
| F10, Alt+Enter | Switch between full screen mode and windowed. | |
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F5 | Switch to edit mode. In this view, you can align your tablature with the music. |
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Space, Left, Right | Start/Pause playback, rewind and fast forward actions. |
| Enter | Quickly restart playback. | |
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 | Set playback speed. |
| -, + | Speed down/up by 1%. | |
| [, ] | Speed down/up by 10%. | |
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Run-up mode. When switched on, playback will start a few seconds before the starting place. This allows you to prepare for playback, adds some silence at the beginning. | |
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Repeat mode. When active, the selected part of the song will play in the loop. You can select start and stop playback points by clicking the left/right mouse on the edit screen. | |
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Reimport. This function allows you to reimport the original tab file after modification outside of Guitar Prompter. If you still work on the file, you can modify the notes in .gp* file and then reimport the file. Guitar Prompter will keep all the alignments you previously did, as much as possible. | |
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Up, Down | Change the current track in Prompter Views. (For example switch from Lead guitar to rhythm or bass). |
| Ctrl + Mouse wheel | This allows you to setup time-zoom in every view. | |
| left mouse click | In Edit mode: Set start point for playback (or loop in repeat mode). | |
| right mouse click | In Edit mode: Set end point for playback (or loop in repeat mode). Automatically enables repeat mode. | |
| right mouse click | In Edit mode, click on the position marker: Remove the time lock. |