HyperTab screenshot
HyperTab uses famous songs to show you how guitar works. Watch strings and fingers animate, synced to your mp3 of the original recording, or slowed down for learning.
Turn the Shapes knob to see the underlying shapes -- not just chords and scales, but "building block" licks and riffs used by everyone from Hendrix to Metallica.
Free download: includes 2 min. demo file
Paid songs: from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Iron Maiden
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HyperTab guitar software
When you open a HyperTab file and press play, you'll see the strings picked and strummed; fingerpads bending, sliding, barreing and muting; whammy bar, palm muting and more; all in detailed, 60 frames-per-second animation.
Playback speed of the computer audio can be slowed to 90% of normal so you have lots of time to see exactly what to do with your fingers and pick. Or get an mp3 of the original recording (only $1 at Amazon) and HyperTab will sync to it. As you hear the familiar sound of the original recording, your two senses of sight and sound reinforce each other: you start to recognize what a power chord for example, or a blues scale, or an oblique bend, sound like and look like as they're being played.
| How it worksSee multiple guitars -- bass too. |
| Syncs to mp3Imagine hearing Stevie Ray play while you "look over his shoulder" and watch. |
| Shows you how to play itWhat to do with your fret hand -- |
| Shows everything tab doesThe accuracy of tab without having to read all the little numbers. |
| More then chord and scale shapesBuilding block lick and riff shapes too. |
| Shows music theoryColor-coding shows you what's going on musically -- including with the shapes. |
