With the new 0.7 release, there are some new useful command line options, specifically –chord (-C) and –strum_sequence (-q). You can add a chord bound to a key binding. In the following example, I have bound three chords to the A key, the E key, and the D key. The […]

You can experiment with strum rthymns with -q (–strum_sequence) command option. This is a new feature release in 0.6. You provide a strum sequence of down ‘D’ up ‘U’, and pauses ‘1,2,3,etc.’ For example, That sounds,

The fastest way to get a song into vguitar is to you classicTrax format. A step-by-step tutorial is Another pretty woman tablature

All notes in tablature are quarter notes, with the actual time length specified by –bpm (or -b) beats per minute command option. (For those familiar with Unix). Many songs need eighth and half notes to make the rhythmn, for the song to sound ok. In vguitar, you can lengthen a […]

E|———————————————————— B|———————————————————— G|———————————————————— D|———0-4-2-0——————————————– A|——-2—————————————————- E|-0-0-4—————————————————— The open D is the fifth fret of A. The fingerings are different, but  sounds same.

Copy this: E|———————————————————— B|———————————————————— G|———————————————————— D|———–4-2————-4-2————-4-2————– A|——-2-5—–5——-2-5—–5——-2-5—–5———— E|-0-0-4———–0-0-4———–0-0-4———————- With a text editor save this to a file, pretty-woman.trax Start qsynth and vguitar at the familiar linux command line. You may need to change your addr and port from 129 to something else. You can see that with aconnect. Now vguitar […]