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

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Piano definitely works.  Piano is similar to harp, and I do harp.

I can sort of "sight read" the right hand, but I'm not very fast.  Don't know if I'd get faster if I needed to, because I'm aiming for both hands on harp.
Tracy


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From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Beth Gustin, LPC via MusicTlk
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Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Looking for a way to convert Ultimate Guitar PDF to XML to use with Lime Software

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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