Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GP to another file type
To convert your GP file to another format, you need Guitar Pro or other Audio software.
Convert a file to GP
To convert other file formats to the "Music Notation File" file type, you need software like Guitar Pro or a similar tool.
About GP files
The .GP file extension primarily represents the modern project format used by Guitar Pro 7 and later versions. These files are sophisticated containers (often ZIP-compressed) holding musical tablature, standard notation, instrument tuning, and audio mixing data for playback. While invaluable for learning guitar, bass, and drums, the format poses significant accessibility challenges: it is proprietary and requires the paid Guitar Pro software or specific compatible readers to open. Musicians often face friction when sharing these files with bandmates who do not own the software or when trying to view scores on mobile devices without the dedicated app. To overcome these limitations, the most practical solution is converting the file. For printing or visual study, converting to PDF provides a universal layout. For audio playback in standard media players or DAWs, converting to MIDI or MP3 is essential. For editing in other notation software like Finale or Sibelius, MusicXML is the industry-standard exchange target. A secondary, less common use of the .GP extension is for Gnuplot scripts, which are text-based command files used to generate mathematical graphs; these should be converted to PNG or SVG for web use.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GP file to GP5, MIDI, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS or ALAC, you can use Guitar Pro or similar software from the "Musical Tablature & Scores" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to GP, try Guitar Pro or another comparable tool in the "Musical Tablature & Scores" category.
The GP Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GP converter.