Why I buy this one ?
- This special set of lessons and exercises is designed by professional guitarists, to show you exactly what you need to know
- Understand the basics by reading & playing along
- Turn the guitar tabs you read & play into standard notation, for easier reading & transcribing
- Fast creation of your own signature riffs
- Create your own lead sheets and post your songs on the Internet

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What our customer's say!

"Very Disappointing", I was looking for a program that would turn my guitar improvisations into sheet music in real time. G7 sounded promising so I tried it with a Godin Grand Concert and a Roland GI-20 for pitch to midi conversion. The results were horrible. Even at slow tempos many of the notes were a sixteenth note off, even though they were played precisely on the downbeat. The metronome tempo was not reliably consistent. (I was running it on a PC with all unnecessary services disabled.) Arpeggios are horrible. If you've ever looked at a sequence of a guitarist playing arpeggios, you'll know it looks like a mess of overlapping notes. And that's what the notation of G7 looks like. It has a feature that is supposed to turn a mess like this into a monophonic line by removing overlapping notes. When you run it a warning message appears stating that you can NOT undue this operation! (Very poor design) When you do run it the results are less then spectacular. Often eight notes are displayed as two tied sixteenth notes with the ties above the notes when they should be below or vice versa.

"OK for certain uses, poor for others", You can scan in sheet music or import a midi file. That's cool. But editing after entry (even simple things like deleting measures at the end of the score) is not what this program was designed for.

If you like the feature of clicking on a picture of a guitar fingerboard to get notes or tabs into a progam, this program has some utility.

You should really try to work with a demo version first to see if this is what you wanted. I'm trying to arrange scores for jazz violin and guitar from generic midi files. G7 was not designed for that kind of use.

"Poor quality , buggy", Great sales hype and graphics ...
Inside the box is a scrappy program and probably the worst user manual I have encountered for years .
The music scanning program simply does not work .
Operation of the main program is weird and illogical .Even the menus are stupidly organised .
Guitar MIDI input doesn't have the facility to channel your guitar strings . Hence , voicings are confused by the program .
Tab input is for standard tuning only AFAICS , not very flexible .
When you input from the virtual keyboard , either tab or notes appear , but not both ! ( why on earth not ?? ) .
Setting up your score to begin with involves selecting from a huge list of combinations of tunings and graphics .... this gets very annoying , very quickly .
There is pretty well zero user configuration here , so one cannot set about work-rounds for the worst of G7's stupidities .
My guess would be that this package was just cobbled together for the market .
The manual contains a few (pathetic ) pages entitled " How to Make it In The Music Business " .
I suggest the team at Sibelius would be better focusing on how to make useable useful software .
If you buy this rubbish , make sure you can return it .

"Extremely disappointed", I was extremely disappointed with this product and the Sibelius customer service. I expected much better considering the hype. Consider the following quote:

"G7 contains a complete interactive guide to guitars". Take a look at it folks, it miniscule with information you could get anywhere. A hyperlink does make something interactive folks.

As well, the whole business about including Kontakt reeks of the same hype. When I finally got it working it had 1 preset. Period.

As was mentioned by someone, scanning is useless. I have a new scanner and used clean published scores. It takes longer to correct the scanned score than it should to enter the score note by note with a mouse. You have to edit the scanned score using a dumbed-down version of the G7 editor before you can get it into G7. Even then it seems to drop measures requiring a lot of post scanning tweaking. It crashed a few times as well.

The user interface has a lot of "peculiarities", especially when trying to determine exactly what is selected at any given time. Even the manual tells you to hit escape several times to avoid doing something you didn't mean to do. This was particularly frustrating.

Screen drawing was inconsistent, it doesn't handle chord diagrams the way you'd think it would, and play back of imported midi can result in some really bizarre interpretations.

Unfortunately they have a no refund policy (no wonder!). I took a previous reviewer's recommendation and downloaded Guitar Pro 4. Now THAT is a program made for guitarists. I was up and producing useful stuff in minutes. Talk about intuitive. In a week of trying I was not able to produce a single complete score with G7.

"Better than I expected", Being a teacher and bandleader, and new to computers, I needed an easy program to help me prepare lessons, and more importantly to make my originals readable on the job, usually in low light situations. Some of my tunes have twists and turns, and my handwriting isn't beautiful. My computer-savvy colleagues spoke highly of Sibelius and so I gave G7 a shot. It does the work I need simply, elegantly, and most importantly, I found it easy and fast to figure out. It certainly does a lot for the money, too. I'm very satisfied.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Not for beginners!", 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!", 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", 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!!