Start from a printed or exported sheet music PDF instead of retyping the melody on the mandolin neck.
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Frettify converts readable PDF sheet music into four-course standard mandolin tablature by recognizing the score and creating an editable mandolin tab draft in the browser. Each doubled course is one tab line in E–A–D–G order.
Start from a printed or exported sheet music PDF instead of retyping the melody on the mandolin neck.
Get four-course standard GDAE tab, not an eight-string guitar-style staff.
Turn violin, fiddle, or guitar melody notation into a mandolin tab draft you can edit.
Review course and fret choices after conversion so the part sits in fifths tuning.
After conversion, review and edit your tablature, then download a Guitar Pro (.gp) file for editing and playback or export a PDF of your tab for printing. These downloads are available across Frettify's supported instrument conversions.
Frettify is designed for readable sheet music PDFs. Clean scans and exported digital scores usually work better than blurry photos, handwritten notation, or heavily marked-up pages.
No. Mandolin is modeled as four courses. You get four tablature lines in E–A–D–G order. Doubled physical strings are not rendered as eight separate tab strings.
Yes. Choose Mandolin before conversion. Frettify maps the written melody onto standard GDAE. Alternate mandolin tunings are not supported yet.
Upload a readable PDF score with Mandolin selected, generate four-course GDAE tab, then refine the draft in the browser.
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