User's Guide

Guitar Pro 5
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The Scales Tool
The scales tool allows you to view and listen to a great number of scales in any tonality. It can also retrieve the scale used
in a score.
To activate the scales tools, use the Tools > Scales. You can also access this tool by using the Scales button on the
upper right of the Fretboard / Keyboard.
The opening of the scales tool triggers the opening of the keyboard. To view the scales on the fretboard, use the View
> Fretboard before opening the scales tool.
The display modes of the keyboard and fretboard are automatically positioned on Show [Beat] + [Scales]. You can
customize the fretboard display to view for each note of the scale : the name, the interval, the degree.
To display a scale, select the chosen tonality (C, C#, ...), and then the name of the scale. Guitar Pro shows the notes of
the scale. To listen to them, you just have to click on the notes. Guitar Pro also shows the construction of the scale, with
the interval and the number of semitones between each note.
As for every tool in Guitar Pro, the display of the notes on the fretboard is a function of the active track tuning.
Research of the Scale Used in the Score:
The Scale Finder button makes the search function active: