[MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software

[Beth Gustin, LPC]

Hi,

My understanding is ultimate guitar has piano as well as guitar. I’m looking more for the piano or the horn sections of Music scores. I believe you can just select a part such as horn section or piano score, and just print that to a PDF. So my hope is I can use that and change it into a file I can read in braille. I will look further file format though, as I have not seen others.
I agree you cannot convert guitar tabs to braille. But I’m hoping the other instruments will work. I don’t play guitar. I play trumpet and sing and some piano.

I’m hoping to find a way to be able to hold my own more quickly with the band. They like to site read a lot of songs and I know that is something I cannot do.

Thanks,

Beth.
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> On Nov 7, 2025, at 2:19 PM, Ella Yu via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I've never used Ultimate Guitar, but it should have formats other than PDF
> if I recall correctly. There should be an editable Guitar Pro format or the
> like, and I believe MuseScore notation software can open Guitar Pro files.
> Still, I do not believe Lime/GOODFEEL or any well-known MusicXML to braille
> program can convert guitar tablature to braille, as guitar tab is a totally
> different ball game from standard sheet music. If Ultimate Guitar does have
> standard staff notation, then you'll somehow need to convert the Guitar Pro
> files or equivalent to MusicXML and that requires a program other than the
> GOODFEEL suite. I hope this helps.
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM Beth Gustin via MusicTlk <
>> musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am back with yet another question. I am demoing The Feel Good Suite of
>> software, and the band members I play with use Ultimate Guitar when
>> practicing. I noticed all the downloadable scores are in PDF. Is there a
>> way to convert them to XML to use with Lime? Adobe says it does this, but
>> when I tried it with sighted help, it just gave me text, not notation.
>> 
>> I have been looking at Musescore.com as this does have downloadable XML
>> scores, but does not appear to have many of the songs we play.
>> 
>> Thoughts/suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Beth
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