For Guitarists Only

• Tuners
  • Gstring guitar tuner with GTK interface
  • GuiTuner very nice tuner from Fabio Checconi
  • JTuner nice Java-based guitar tuner from Michael Corlett
  • KGuiTune instrument tuner for KDE
  • gTune provides a Gtk+ interface to Gtune

• Tablature Software
  • Dr Fermi Tabulator converts ASCII tablature to a standard MIDI file
  • Gnometab guitar tablature editor for Gnome2
  • KGuitar a guitarist's environment for KDE, includes tablature and MIDI import/export features
  • PStab "a system for typesetting guitar tablature"
  • SongWrite the latest and greatest incarnation of what was formerly Jiba's GTablature
  • Tab'n'Fret tablature and fretboard generators for X
  • eTktab excellent program for writing guitar tablature in the typical ASCII tab found on the Internet
  • ptabtools library and utilities for opening PowerTab files and converting them to LilyPond and ASCII formats

• Fretboard Utilities
  • fretboard generates 1-octave fretboard diagram of any fretted instrument

• Music Preparation/Viewing Utilities
  • Chord 3.5 tool for guitarists, produces sheet music from a text file
  • ChordCast "software written to help musicians creating and printing chords", from Jonathan Houde
  • Chordpack "a system for typesetting of songs with guitar chords"
  • Gnome-chord lists and illustrates guitar chords
  • GuitarTex "...takes a LaTeX file containing ChordPro directives to produce good-looking and easy-to-play song sheets for guitarists"

• Chord & Scale Utilities
  • Guitar/Bass Mode Maker "... will help the guitar player learn scales, modes, chords, and create new scales", software from Mike Wagman
  • ChordDB a database front-end that keeps track of chord files (fake sheets), accepts Chord and ChordPro input files, and creates output in PDF, text, ChordPro, and LaTeX formats
  • GuitarCodex Plus excellent tool for learning scales & chords, requires Java

• Miscellaneous
  • ToneFree utilities for controlling Line 6 guitar amplifiers and preamps via /dev/midi
  • XStick "...a tool for viewing scales, notes, and chords on the Chapman Stick(R)", from Stew Benedict