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 enlarge | From: Sibelius Software Ltd.
Category: Software
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 11164
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.6
MPN: SIBG7
UPC: 674169001002
EAN: 0674169001002
ASIN: B000094FVC
Release Date: April 8, 2003
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 Not for beginners! December 16, 2003
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this program recently. It has a very steep learning curve. For instance, when I tried to put notes onto the staff with the mouse, it would often put them with additional rests etc, which I did not want to be there (while I played around with my musical idea), and then when I tried to delete the note I put in, it would not delete it. So I called Sibelius and asked who I could go to in the Los Angeles area who could perhaps tutor me on learning this program, and they did not have a single person. It was suggested that I go to the help center on their web site... which I did, and then I tried to find the listings of discussions from other users on the basic learning of the program... the help center came back with no listings... so then I had to write techincal help to find out exactly what words one has to put into the help center in order to find the chatroom discussions...I am waiting for an answer now.
So, save your self a headache and don't buy this program unless you have a direct contact who can help you learn it.
 G7 has made me a believer! September 29, 2003
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
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.
Cool program for writing guitar tab & songs July 13, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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!!
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