Question for teachers - tab/notation software

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I'm putting together a worksheet for a student covering some basic A Minor Pentatonic stuff. I want to have an overview of playing through the 5 shapes, then a series of licks for the student to work on where they can see the shapes connecting within the licks. All pretty basic stuff from a playing standpoint - the catch is that I'm trying to use Guitar Pro to notate all of this (I got a free license years ago), and while it's nice for transcribing and notating complete pieces, having it stop and putting in a line break in the staff and starting a new line doesn't seem to be a thing it does.

I was wondering if any other teachers here, or even students who might get this kind of thing from a teacher have anything they like using for this. I can go to pen and paper but I like having it cleaner than my handwriting, and archiving it digitally is a nice perk too for when my students inevitably lose things I give them. It would be great if something out there made it to where you can write a few lines of text, have a line or two of music, etc. all in one program, but I'm not finding much - everything seems to point back to Guitar Pro. Any ideas?
 
Give Guitar Pro a shot. Very easy to use and more guitar focused that other notation software.
 
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You really have the choice of guitar friendly (GuitarPro) or Engraving/layout friendly (Dorico)
Tbh if I’m knocking up a quick guitar tab for myself it’s GP every time. If I want something that looks good and has multiple none guitar instruments the it’s always Dorico. However Dorico comes with a steep learning curve.
 
I use Guitar Pro a lot, it’s very nice to learn songs. Slowing down tempo and looping specific bars is really excellent for getting difficult licks down.
 
Guess I’ll keep plugging away in Guitar Pro. It seems like I’m not the only one trying to figure this out at least…I might look into exporting the tabs as PDF into something else for text/formatting too. Thanks fellers
 
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