Since there probably aren't enough transcribers working in music publishing to keep any software company in business for the long term, commercial score and tablature editing software aimed at attracting a larger guitarist user base has to have a few more tricks up its sleeve, in addition to the expected basic notational facilities, functionality and ease of use. Add to this a growing demand for notation of complete band performances (lead, rhythm and bass guitars, drums plus whatever other instruments are in the mix) and the level of complexity in the task of transcription becomes extremely high, placing great demands not only on transcribers, but also on the software that they have to rely on to get the task done. Over the last 50 or so years, the level of detail available in transcriptions of popular guitar music has grown from the simple (and often wildly inaccurate) chord diagrams of the '60s, to the point today where any guitarist's performance can be meticulously written out in such extreme detail that every note and nuance of the original can be captured, transcribed, read and - ability permitting - replayed. If you write for guitar, you'll not only be putting notes to paper, but you'll also need a comprehensive vocabulary of additional notation symbols to be able to fully communicate your ideas to another player. Apart from the basic notes, the transcriber has to notate string/fret positions, note bends, arpeggios, sweeps, taps and the myriad other physical subtleties that go into reproducing the performance on paper. If you've ever picked up a book of highly accurate transcriptions of the playing of one of the great exponents of the acoustic or electric guitar, you'll no doubt have realised just how complex a guitar piece can be, and just how detailed the notation of the interaction between fingers, strings and frets has to be in order to fully capture the music being made. Guitar Pro 6's armoury of tab symbols incorporates a staggering array of special notation devices, and string bends are highly configurable. Writing down every nuance of a guitarist's performance is a challenge that can tax even the best notation software.

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