[Whizzer]

So you’re saying you want all fretted notes to sound like the absolute notes, but open notes to sound as if there was a capo? For example say a C chord is x32010, if you have a capo on the 3rd fret and you play an Eb chord (with the C shape) it would be charted as x65040?

 

Keep in mind that you wouldn’t be able to play the song in-game with an actual capo. It would also mess up your chord names

 

That’s how capo’s work, no? They don’t affect notes fretted higher than the capo.

 

And yes, that’s how I plan to ultimately author a large portion of the Pro Guitar chart. Is this not how I should do it? I did find something here.

 

Seems also clear from that thread that HMX authored absolute fret numbers with tunings different from standard.

Edit: or maybe not. Seems to be standard to tab relative to capo, which doesn’t make any sense to me.

 

This tab is exactly the same as HMX’ chart, and has a capo on the first fret.

 

I’m not worried about chord names. Very few chords are played on the guitar with the capo and they don’t look like any fingerings I could find. Chord names can be overridden anyway.

 

What exactly did you mean by the following?

 

Keep in mind that you wouldn’t be able to play the song in-game with an actual capo.

Perhaps I should also provide a transcribed chart without capo and nashville tuning.

[Seil]

You can’t place a capo on the frets of the pro guitar, the game will think you’re holding a barre and thus open notes won’t work at all. That must have been why HMX charted it that way. It makes sense for tabs to do that as well, so that if you play the song on a real guitar and you don’t have a capo, it would still sound accurate, it’d just be in a lower key.

 

I’m not worried about chord names. Very few chords are played on the guitar with the capo and they don’t look like any fingerings I could find. Chord names can be overridden anyway.

 

The song in your link “The Con” is entirely made up of chords. I think showing the right chord names is important especially if you’re learning guitar and getting into music theory. The one thing I don’t like about HMX’s chart is that since it’s charted relative to the capo, the chord names are all in the wrong key… I think that’s where changing the tuning would be an easy fix. The “nut” is then where your capo would be.

[rokryno]

YES dude. this is still enlightening new users! I’ve been wondering what do do about this problem since I started. Glad I found this, All i use c3/Magma/Reaper for is Pro Guitar and Pro Bass authoring. I line up the preview with the guitar stems I create and it saves me 90% of the time for charting and catches all the mistakes before testing on the game now. Sweet. Just, YES dude. Yes ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

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