intabulo ?

intabulo

Sheet music, written out as lute or guitar tablature.

Upload a PDF, choose your instrument and its tuning, and a tablature PDF comes back. Free to try, and no account is needed for that.

Greensleeves, the opening bars ♯ The same bars as tablature, for a 6-course lute in Renaissance G 0 3 0 2 4 2 0 2 3 0 2 3 0 0
  1. 1Upload the sheet music as a PDF.
  2. 2A model reads the notes off the page.
  3. 3You get the tablature back as a PDF.

Converting needs an account

The free model is switched off at the moment, so every conversion runs on a paid model and needs an account.

How it works

A model reads the notes off your PDF. Every pitch is then placed on your instrument: the highest voice keeps its ordinary notation, and everything below it becomes a course and a fret. That second step is arithmetic, so it is exact — the automatic transposition simply tries every shift and keeps the one with the lowest frets.

The reading is the uncertain part. A modern printed edition comes out well; a poor scan of a 16th-century facsimile does not. Ask for the notes as they were read, and compare them with your original before you learn a piece.