Free Website for creating pedal steel guitar tabs

Andy Keen · Post by **Andy Keen** » 10 Nov 2014 9:44 pm

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to announce the release of my website http://www.keentabs.com

It's a free web-based tool to create, edit, share and print guitar tablature. And I made it specifically for pedal steel guitar (standard E9 tuning and C6 non-pedal).

There's a video on the main page that walks you through the features of the website, but tech savvy individuals can probably skip the video and just sign up and start making tabs.

Some of the cool features are:
-store your tabs on "the cloud" for easy access later
-categorize your tabs by tempo, genre, difficulty level
-fine-grained search to find tabs others have created
-easily transpose your tab to any key
-mp3 file upload for your sound clips
-loop the sound clip while you're playing with the song
-keep your tabs private or share with the world
-print the tabs to your printer (or PDF file)
-rating tabs
-user comments

This is the initial release, and it's likely to have an occasional issue or so. I would love to hear your feedback/suggestions. You can reply here or email me at info@keentabs.com

All the tabs on the site are free right now, but we're planning on adding paid content in the future. If you have quality guitar tabs (with audio tracks) that you created and would like to sell on the platform, I would love to hear from you. Email me at info@keentabs.com and we'll let you know as soon as the paid platform is ready.

I hope this proves to be a useful tool for the steel guitar community and hopefully guitar players in general.

Thanks for your time,
-Andy

Alexander Rehfeld · Post by **Alexander Rehfeld** » 11 Nov 2014 2:58 am

Wow, this is a great concept!

Allen Howington · Post by **Allen Howington** » 11 Nov 2014 3:39 am

I think this would certainly be a useful tool for all steel players(and wanna b's like me). Thanks for sharing with us all.

Allen Howington N.C.

Johnny Baldwin · Post by **Johnny Baldwin** » 11 Nov 2014 9:26 am

Andy: Great job of putting this together. I just viewed the demo, and it looks very promising. One question. Will you have a function built in to upload midi info in order to tab an entire song? I know ClicTab and Tabledit have this function.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 11 Nov 2014 9:51 am

This is a very cool tool for sharing tab with other players.

Brilliant!

Johnne Lee Ables · Post by **Johnne Lee Ables** » 11 Nov 2014 1:14 pm

...your efforts and the product are beyond awesome. I play C6 straight steel and your software may actually give me the courage to try pedals.

Amazing work!

Thank you so much for your efforts.

Johnne Lee

Andy Keen · Post by **Andy Keen** » 12 Nov 2014 9:53 am

Wow, thanks for the kind words. I hope it's a useful resource. If everyone on the forum shared just 1 steel guitar lick (and audio clip), we'd have a pretty huge pile of content.

Johnny Baldwin - The midi-to-tab conversion tool is a good idea, and I'll look into that. It's currently just me doing the development work, so I will try to focus on the most popular requests.

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 13 Nov 2014 7:57 am

Fantastic effort!!

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 13 Nov 2014 10:27 am

Wow...Very Nice and well done! Thank You

Greg Spence · Post by **Greg Spence** » 14 Nov 2014 7:23 am

Very cool. Can we get Universal set ups too?

kevin ryan · Post by **kevin ryan** » 14 Nov 2014 9:12 am

Really nice...

memphislim · Post by **memphislim** » 15 Nov 2014 6:19 am

When I add a "slide in" in shows properly until I hit the master save button, then it changes to slide out.

Andy Keen · Post by **Andy Keen** » 17 Nov 2014 7:30 am

Greg -Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I can add Universal Setup. I'm not familiar with them so I have to learn which pedal/levers are available for that tuning. I'm also adding open G (dobro) and open E tunings

memphislim - you found a bug, thanks! I'll fix it as soon as I get a chance.

Thanks for the feedback!

Jim Eller · Post by **Jim Eller** » 17 Nov 2014 1:11 pm

WOW! This is a great tool for simple folks like me.

I can understand it.

Thanks for all your work and sharing.

JimE

J. Allan Jackson · Post by **J. Allan Jackson** » 19 Nov 2014 5:41 pm

That's pretty slick,

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 20 Nov 2014 4:44 pm

Johnne Lee Ables wrote:...your efforts and the product are beyond awesome. I play C6 straight steel and your software may actually give me the courage to try pedals.

Amazing work!

Thank you so much for your efforts.

Johnne Lee

I think it only supports non-pedal C6 from his first post.

Andy... This is beyond awesome. How about pedal support for C6?

I can't wait to get into this site.

Great job!

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 20 Nov 2014 5:19 pm

OUTRAGEOUSLY COOL !

Thanks !

Ryan Knudson · Post by **Ryan Knudson** » 25 Nov 2014 8:49 am

Quincy Damphousse · Post by **Quincy Damphousse** » 27 Nov 2014 7:11 am

Would be an excellent tool for players to create their own guitar tunings and pedal setup of individual players. I've been looking for a software that can make it easy to write down the tabs to my own licks so I can share with other steel players. I think you have the right idea and that with the help of others input you will make this program the best tab editing program for Pedal steel guitar

Very well done. Thank you in Advance.

Tommy Auldridge · Post by **Tommy Auldridge** » 28 Nov 2014 5:24 pm

This is the neatest invention since the six pack. It's going to be a valuable tool for everybody. Thanks, Tommy......
b0b: Maybe this should be made a sticky in the Tabliture section.

Carlos Polidura · Post by **Carlos Polidura** » 5 Dec 2014 9:54 am

What can I say...but thank you!!!

Wayne Quinn · Post by **Wayne Quinn** » 13 Dec 2014 9:56 am

Hey Andy, best concept I have seen yet any where. I really like it , awesome for newbies, and old guys like me lol .

Larry Lenhart · Post by **Larry Lenhart** » 24 Mar 2015 6:38 am

This is great ! Thanks so much for sharing your talent and hard work on this project ! It will be used a lot I am sure !

Charley Bond · Post by **Charley Bond** » 29 Aug 2015 5:52 am

Mr Keen (heavy on the Mister), this is Dynomite TOOL. You da man.

I haven't used it yet, but as soon as I have quickly & hurriedly consumed my breakfast... I'll be back to the computer.

You are a generous man.... many Thanks...

dlayne · Post by **dlayne** » 30 Aug 2015 12:14 pm

b0b wrote:This is a very cool tool for sharing tab with other players. Brilliant!

What b0b said

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Free Website for creating pedal steel guitar tabs

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