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Guitar tab and sheet music to MP3
Download what your score sounds like as an MP3, to practise along with on your phone, send to a bandmate or use as a backing track. The audio is made in your browser and never uploaded.
How to export MP3 audio
- Write your score in the editor, or import a Guitar Pro, MusicXML or MIDI file.
- When it is ready, open the ⋯ menu at the top right of the editor and choose Export → MP3 audio. You can also press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) and type “export”.
- SimpleNotation plays the score through faster than real time, encodes it and downloads the MP3. Expect roughly 15 seconds per minute of music; you can keep working meanwhile.
What the file keeps
- Every instrument you can hear in playback, mixed with each track’s volume and pan
- Guitar techniques you can hear: bends, vibrato, slides and hammer-ons, harmonics, palm mute and dead notes
- Dynamics and accents, tempo changes, and repeats and jumps in playing order
- Mute and solo: solo one track before exporting to get that part on its own
What it leaves out
- The metronome, count-in, loop and practice speed: the export plays the written tempo from start to finish
- The instruments are synthesized in your browser, not recordings of real players
- Pieces longer than 20 minutes
The file
Stereo, 44.1 kHz, 192 kbps: about 1.4 MB per minute, small enough to send in a chat. For editing in a DAW or a video editor, WAV keeps the full quality.
Practise slower
To get a slower version, change the tempo mark at the start of the score, export the MP3, and change the tempo back. Exporting the guitar part soloed and the band muted, or the other way round, gives you a play-along track.
Questions
Is my music uploaded to make the MP3?
No. The audio is rendered and encoded in your browser. Nothing about the score or the sound is sent to our server.
Can I export just one instrument?
Yes. Solo that track (or mute the others) in the mixer, then export. Only tracks you can hear are in the file.
Can I export it at a slower tempo?
The export uses the tempo written in the score, not the practice speed slider. Change the tempo mark, export, then change it back.
How long does it take?
Roughly 15 seconds per minute of music on a typical computer, most of it MP3 encoding. It runs in the background, so you can keep working. WAV export skips the encoding and is faster.
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