program for writing tab with lyrics and chords

[James Anderson]

before  coronavirus  i  used  to  write on  tab  with   lyrics  and  chords   and  if i wanted  to send it to so mebody  i  used  to  get  my  local copy shop  to  make it in to a atachment so  i  could  send it  by  email    is  it  possible  to  do  it  on  the computer  some  how  all  three things  at  once

[SongWriterJoe]

Screenshots as a jpg file, perhaps?

[MikeRobinson]

MuseScore, which runs on everything and is absolutely free(!), can do tablature very easily.  (Along with "everything else you could possibly want to do with music notation."  A truly amazing piece of software.)

[Jim Byrne]

Thanks, that's useful to know. 🙂

Jim

[MikeRobinson]

MuseScore amazed me long ago, and the team that produces it continues to make it better.

 

Back in a day when I was "feeling flush," I decided that I would "spend lots of money" either on Sibelius or Finale – these being the only score-writing tools that I was then aware of.  But first, I decided to surf the "open source" world.  After quickly passing by a few inevitable pieces of "dead-dud abandonware (of course ...)," I found MuseScore.  "And-d-d-d... I stopped looking."  This is professional-grade stuff.  A startling demonstration of what "community-supported open-source software" can actually be.

Edited April 29, 2020 by MikeRobinson