Tunings and capo

Tune a track's strings, choose how many it has, and put a capo on.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Each tab track has its own tuning and capo: a guitar in Drop D beside a bass in standard is two tracks with two tunings. The tab’s frets are read on that tuning.

Opening the tuning

1. Widen the tracks column at the left of the score with the button at its top (on iPhone, tap the track’s name in the top bar), to see each track’s name and buttons.
2. TapClick the tuning fork of the track: the Tuning dialog opens, the tuning’s notes at its top, lowest string first.
3. Change what you need, then Apply; Cancel leaves the track as it was.

The tuning fork shows on tab tracks only: a drum track has its drum mapping there instead.

Presets and your own tuning

• Presets: the menu lists the presets for the track’s string count first: on a six-string guitar, Standard, Drop D, Drop C, Drop B, Double Drop D, tuned down a half step, one or two steps, the open tunings from Open C to Open Am, and Baritone. The others (a bass’s four or five strings, a seven-string guitar’s) are in its last item, Other string counts, each marked with its number of strings: picking one of those also changes the track’s string count. A track with no preset of its own count (an eight-string guitar) shows Other string counts alone. The menu shows the preset’s name when the strings match one, Custom when they don’t.
• Strings: each string’s note, string 1 the highest. Its − and + lower or raise it a semitone.
• Detune All: − and + lower or raise every string a semitone at once, for a whole tuning down a half step or up.

The number of strings

The number beside Strings is how many the track has, from 1 to 12: + adds a string under the lowest, a fourth below it, and − takes the lowest away. Set 4 or 5 for a bass, 7 or 8 for an extended-range guitar, then tune the new strings one by one.

The capo

Capo, from 0 to 12, puts a capo on that fret. Write the tab as you play it, the frets counted from the capo, and Reflow plays the notes that many semitones higher, as the guitar sounds.