Practice · Diesis
A guitar tab maker that plays back what you write.
Tap a line and a number, or play it on the neck. Add the signs, set the tempo and the time signature, then listen: your tab, played in time, as fast or as slow as you like.
It works right here: no account, nothing to install.
This is one tool. Diesis keeps them all in one place. Every tool, your bests and your teacher's homework, kept for you.
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What it does
Write it your way
On a phone, a number pad or the neck itself; on a computer, the keyboard: digits for the fret, arrows for the string, letters for the signs.
Every sign you need
Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, vibrato, muted strings, palm mute, harmonics, ties, rests, dots and triplets, in values from a whole note to a sixteenth.
Hear it back
Your tab becomes sound, bar by bar, at the tempo you set. Loop a part and speed it up as it comes together.
Any tuning, any strings
Six, seven or eight strings, standard or drop, and the tab follows your tuning.
How to use it
- 01
Set the piece up
Tempo, time signature and tuning, once.
- 02
Write the notes
Pick a string, type a fret, move on. Choose the value of each beat; add a sign to a note with one key or button.
- 03
Listen and fix
Switch to Listen. Anything wrong, go back to Write: the tab is kept in your browser, and in your account if you have one.
Questions
Is this tab maker free?
Yes. It works on this page with no account, and your tab stays in this browser. An account keeps it on every device, with the rest of your repertoire.
Can it play the tab?
Yes. Listen plays what you wrote at the tempo of the piece, bends, slides and palm mute included, with a count-in and a click if you want them.
Can I write tab on my phone?
Yes. On a phone you write with a number pad or by tapping the neck; the tab fits the screen and scrolls.
Does it open Guitar Pro files?
Not here. Teachers upload Guitar Pro and MusicXML files to their library in Diesis and set them as homework, played back inside the app.
What about rhythm?
Every beat has a value, from a whole note to a sixteenth, with dots and triplets, so the playback is in time, and the tab is drawn with its rhythm when you listen.
Guitar on your lap?
It opens in your browser. Free while in preview; you sign up with your email.
More in Diesis
- LearnName the noteA position lights and plays. Say which note it is, against the clock if you dare.
- LearnFind the noteYou get a name. Tap every place it lives on the neck.
- PracticeThe neckAny scale on any root, across the whole fretboard. Here, A minor pentatonic.
- PracticeMetronome20 to 300 BPM, odd meters, tap tempo, and a Speed up mode that climbs to your target.
- PracticeBacking tracksJam over tracks in every style, with the key and the scale to play shown on each.
- PracticeFinger independenceFour pads, one per finger, and notes falling onto them on the click. Hit each one as it lands and see how close you were.
- SetupStrings and setupEvery string's tension for your tuning, a balanced set worked out for you, and the setup numbers for your guitar.
- SetupTunerTune through the microphone in your guitar's own tuning. It hears the string you play and shows which way to turn the peg.
- LearnReading musicName the note on the staff, find it on the neck, read a bar, then sight-read as the notes scroll.
- LearnTablatureHow to read tab in four rules, then tab to neck, neck to tab, a riff and the signs.