Sibelius G7

by Sibelius

Product Features

• This special set of lessons and exercises is designed by professional guitarists, to show you exactly what you need to know
• Understand the basics by reading & playing along
• Turn the guitar tabs you read & play into standard notation, for easier reading & transcribing
• Fast creation of your own signature riffs
• Create your own lead sheets and post your songs on the Internet

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000094FVC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 8, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,954 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Designed by guitarists for guitarists, G7 provides the fastest way for you to create signature riffs. It even reads and plays tab from other people, making it easy to learn new songs. But that's not all. G7 will turn tab into notation and let you create lead sheets--add chord symbols, chord diagrams, lyrics, and more. And it even lets you post your songs on the Internet. G7 is so easy to use that you can write down your ideas almost as fast as they come to you--you won't ever forget that lick again.

Features:

• Create guitar tab, notation, chords, lyrics, and lead sheets
• Learn songs from ASCII tab and MIDI files
• Scan music and turn it into tab
• Listen to tab playback with bends, slides, etc.
• Post songs on the Internet

Product Description

The guitar learning tool designed by guitarists, for guitarists!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars G7 has made me a believer!, September 29, 2003

By 

Wolf Marshall (Solana Beach, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sibelius G7 (CD-ROM)

I have been using Sibelius G7 since early 2003. Over the years I had tried, and had been disappointed, by various notation programs for the computer. Most were overly complicated, were not user friendly or particularly intuitive (we guitarists prize the intuitive aspects of a product), were limited in their scope and demanded a learning curve which is impractical for a working musician. All were not capable of producing a guitar-TAB score at the professional level. Well, no more...enter G7.
I first learned about G7 from Sibelius--a great bunch of folks incidentally. I was just starting a new gig with an important internet client who was using Sibelius exclusively for all their music notation. Coincidentally, Sibelius had just launched G7. I decided to give it a shot and have never been more satisfied.
The easy-to-use manual (that used to be an oxymoron) is mercifully brief and succinct and gets you up to speed quickly. Then simply playing with the program and accessing the internal Help menu does the rest. Note entry is easily accomplished with the keypad or an interactive fingerboard floating in a corner of the screen. You create notes and chords or TAB effortlessly by simply clicking on the strings. Rhythms are easily entered with a preset value in another tool box also on the screen. It is easy to change rhythms as you go or to edit them later. Complex rhythms (like 32nd-note quintuplets) are easy to create with a simple selection and key command: select and type 3 for triplet, etc. Furthermore specific and idiosyncratic guitar expressions like string bends and slurs, techniques like palm muting and raking, and other similar elements are easy to enter. I paricularly like the simple text entry which can be inserted in any size and font style into the score. I often use these elements to amplify on special techniques in the music. TAB entry is also effortless. You can select and highlight the desired notes, hit ALT, point to the TAB line, and voila, your notes become TAB. TAB can then be edited or repositioned by simply selecting and dragging notes from string to string with the mouse or by selecting and typing in new numbers. I just realized that I have used words like easy, simple and effortless to excess in the last paragraph, but that's how it is with G7.
I have put G7 through numerous "road tests" in the real world for the past six months or so. I have used it regularly to generate notation for my Guitar Port Online articles and columns as well to create materials for clinics and private lessons. I have also enjoyed using G7 "off the clock" to produce printed scores of my private unpublished transcriptions that I share with musical friends and colleagues. G7 is now an essential tool on my desktop. I enthusiastically recommend it to all guitar playing musicians or anyone who wants to create beautiful guitar charts and scores for any occasion.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool program for writing guitar tab & songs, July 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Sibelius G7 (CD-ROM)

I'm a guitarist (amateur but hopeful!) and bought this new program a month ago, having seen rave reviews in a couple of guitar mags.

Basically, G7 lets you write, play back and print out guitar tab and notation v. easily. There's a cool fretboard on the screen which you can use to click notes in and see how to finger stuff. You can also input notation + drum parts, or even scan sheet music in, and download ASCII tab or MIDI files and turn them straight into tab printouts. Plus you can post your songs on the web so other people can print + play them.

Seems to do everything I want and quite a bit more too... plus it's so easy-peezy to use! Full marks from me!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent software for songwriters, May 21, 2004

By 

Paul Silver (Jamestown, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sibelius G7 (CD-ROM)

This software is great.
The documentation is excellent and I was up and running really fast. You can input notes from a MIDI keyboard or MIDI Guitar, as well as clicking or typing the notes in (using a,b,c,d,e,f,g!).
You can add lyrics, chord symbols and chord diagrams, and there's a guitar guide with it to help you learn even more. FABULOUS!!