What does "5x8" in this guitar tab mean?

[Noob gaming]

Sorry, I'm new to writing and guitar tabs. I need to know what the X's stand for in this Guitar Tab, I'm sure it's not a mute...

 

|----------------------------------------------------|

|----------------------------------------------------|

|-5---5-------------------------3--333-----------|

|-5---5x8--2---2----7---5---3-3-3--333-5-5 |

|-3---3----2---2x8--7---5---3-3-1--111-5-5 |

|----------0---0----5---3---1-1--------3-3------|

 

And... it's screwed up the tab...

sucks that I have to write this myself in TuxGuitar.

And it'd be more of a help if you could tell me what tool I need to use to get this "5x8" part.

 

[raynebc]

Without knowing the song, I don't know if they mean you have to play the 5-5-3 chord 8 times or if they mean something else. Tab is kind of ambiguous like that. You don't have to author in TuxGuitar if you don't want to, EOF is 100% capable of authoring notes from scratch and many people authored pro guitar/bass charts for Rock Band 3 before the Guitar Pro import feature was added.

[Noob gaming]

Oh, okay. Thanks. I guess the song does sound like it plays it 8 times. 

Sonic Heroes - Follow Me.

 

I do hear that chord played at some points.