YouTube to guitar tab

Guitar · Standard
  1                 2                 3                 4                 
e|-0---0---1---3---|-3---1---0-------|-------------0---|-0---------------|
B|-----------------|-------------3---|-1---1---3-------|-------3-3-------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

What goes in and what comes out

How it works

1. Paste the link above. The workspace opens with it and with Staff and TAB chosen, after sign-in if needed, and checks what the link holds: its title, length and a quick listen.
2. Say what is playing: one instrument for a guitar on its own, a band for a whole song. A band shows its price before it starts.
3. Our server fetches the sound and writes the score with TAB under the staff. Play it beside the original and fix what you hear.
4. In Score settings, under Guitar TAB, set the tuning and capo the player uses, and how strings are chosen.
5. Download the PDF, or TAB as text under More formats.

Only fetch music you have the right to use.

Match the player’s tuning and capo

ScoreStarling hears the sound, not the hands, so the TAB of a guitar on its own starts in standard tuning without a capo. If the player tunes down or uses a capo, set the same in Score settings and the frets line up with the video. The notes and the playback stay as they are; only the strings and frets change.

• Tunings: standard, Drop D, half and whole step down, Drop C, DADGAD, open G, D and E, and 7-string guitar; 4-, 5- and 6-string bass; ukulele and baritone ukulele. An AI assistant connected to ScoreStarling can set any other tuning you name.
• A capo goes up to the 12th fret, and the frets count from it as on a capo chart: with a capo at the 2nd fret, fret 0 is the string played at the capo.
• Not sure of the tuning? Look for red notes. In standard tuning a note below the low E has no string, which often means the guitar is tuned down.
• Then check the strings against the player’s hands: select a note to move it to the string they use, or choose Fewest hand shifts for a solo that climbs the neck.

Which videos make good TAB

• A guitar on its own and clearly heard: a lesson, a cover or a fingerstyle piece. Choose one instrument; it’s free.
• A whole song: choose a band, and every instrument gets its own staff, with TAB for the guitar and bass. It uses credits, at a price you see before it starts.
• Clean tone. Heavy distortion and effects blur the notes.
• The part you want near the start: the first five minutes are written out. To start later in a video, download it, trim it and drop the file in.

Good to know

• The TAB shows where each note can be played, not how the player fingers it. Check the strings against the video and move any that differ.
• Bends, slides, hammer-ons, palm muting and strumming patterns are not written, and strummed chords come out as their notes, without chord diagrams. One tuning and capo hold for the whole piece.
• Private, members-only and DRM-protected media, and anything behind a subscription, can’t be fetched. Sites sometimes block downloads for a while; dropping the file in always works.
• You can also paste a link in a chat with ChatGPT or Claude and ask for the TAB, once ScoreStarling is connected; see the connection guide.