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 enlarge | From: Sibelius Software Ltd.
Category: Software
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $79.00
You Save: $70.99 (47%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 11027
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.7 x 1.8
MPN: SIBG7
UPC: 674169001002
EAN: 0674169001002
ASIN: B000094FVC
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Save Time, Effort and Money June 25, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I run a Master's Degree Program in Instructional Technology and am always impressed when a program can teach well. The animated fretboard in G7, and the ability to seamlessly go between standard notation and guitar tablature are superb. As a guitarist, I'm stunned by the number of uses I have already found for G7. It is also incredible for eliminating "grunt" work which guitarists, teachers and students have always had to go through. I almost feel guilty for having paid so little for it...almost. If you play the guitar and don't have G7, you are wasting time, effort and money.
Excellent software for songwriters May 21, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!!
 Very poor functionality May 20, 2004
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This software is a MAJOR disapointment. I've tried for 4 hours (learning curve) to build a simple lead sheet and I can't get past 16 bars. This software is full of bugs. I tried to add lyrics but when I came to a half note at the start of a measure that was tied to a note from the previous measure the lyrics jumped to the following measure, skipping 4 eighth notes, making it useless. You have no flexiblity in the lengths of measures. They seem to take on a life of their own. Not only do they become either too long or too short, the page jumps all over the screen when trying to stretch or shrink the measure.I didn't find this software to be hard to use, only the buggiest software package I ever owned (hope to get a return). The functionality just isn't there. The manual and help are weak. The manual and help say one thing but the program does another. I can't continue to fight with the package and try to figure out why something does not work the way the manual says it should. This was just a couple of things I found bad, believe me there were more. I believe that this software was written for a Mac, based on the manual and user interface. Maybe it works for Macs but if you have a pc, forget it.
this does not live up to the hype March 13, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this product one week ago,,, after several hours
a day and talking to there support i find this program not anywhere
near intuitive, the reviewer that said it has a tall learning curve was not kidding,
i think he was being nice! this program doesnt do what it claims
(it doesnt play all guitar symbols i even have email from them stating that)
it is very difficult to even put a bend on tab and get it to sound right.
the scanning software does not work at all (if it doesnt crash it doesnt even get 20% of the song right)
I am going back to guitar pro it cost half as much and is so much easier.
What A Deal~! February 8, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm a Sibelius user, and I picked up G7 because of it's Guitar Guide and Virtual Fret Board (I'm not much of a guitarist). This program is absolutely AMAZING, and I can't believe what it can do for the price! It is in the same structure/format as Sibelius, and the files are even transferrable, so the singer/songwriter who doesn't need a "powerful" notation software can easily create lead sheets or charts in G7, and send them off to someone who can add orchestrations, etc. in Sibelius. (Although for some, G7 can probably do it all.) More, it's just so much fun to work with the fret board (and SO EASY to use), and the guitar guide is a great interactive source for learning everything you need to know about the guitar and writing for the guitar, so that alone is worth the purchase!
It's great~!
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