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What is a .gp5 file?
A .gp5 file is a guitar tablature written in Guitar Pro, the notation program made by Arobas Music. It is not audio and not a picture: it holds the notes themselves — which string, which fret, how long, at what tempo — for every instrument in the piece. That is why a program can play it back, transpose it, or slow it down without it turning to mush.
The extension tells you which version of Guitar Pro wrote it.
| Extension | Written by |
|---|---|
.gp3 | Guitar Pro 3 |
.gp4 | Guitar Pro 4 |
.gp5 | Guitar Pro 5 — still the most common format in circulation |
.gpx | Guitar Pro 6 |
.gp | Guitar Pro 7 and later |
How to open one without installing anything
Guitar Pro itself is paid software, and for reading a file somebody sent you that is a lot to ask. You can open any of the formats above here, in the browser:
- Drop the file onto the box on the start page, or pick it from your device.
- If the piece has several instruments, choose the one you want to hear. You can switch afterwards.
- Play it, slow it down, mute a voice, or loop your way through the hard bar.
Nothing is installed and no account is needed. The file you upload is deleted as soon as it has been converted, and the converted tab stays private unless you choose to share it — the details are in the privacy policy.
Why a .gp5 will not open by double-clicking
Nothing on a normal computer is registered to handle these extensions, so a double-click gets you a "choose an application" dialog or a wall of nonsense in a text editor. The file is not broken — the format is simply specific to one program. The same is true of .gpx, which is a compressed container rather than a plain file, so unzipping it by hand will not help either.
What this page does not do
It does not host anybody's tabs. A transcription of a song is a work in its own right, and the sites that publish them licence what they publish. This is a tool for the file you already have.
Guitar Pro is a trademark of Arobas Music. easytabs.studio is not affiliated with Arobas Music; the name is used here to identify the file formats their program writes.