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Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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I don't know how exactly Claude vision works but isn't just using good old computer vision much cheaper?

Yes, for sure. You could probably train a specific vision model for this style of image parsing and run it on device for free. However, this was much easer to make :-)

Ask Claude to code it up, then it's also easy.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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post #47

I learned this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07N4VVSmYLU&list=RD07N4VVSmYLU... …exactly the way you described. Pause, screenshot, adjust color/contrast, assemble in a pdf. Super annoying.

Learning music from recordings (video or just audio) would be so much easy if modern video and audio playback software would bring back the AB repeat function that used to be common on CD players, DVD players, LaserDisc players, and MP3 players. Why the heck did this largely go away?

VLC has it. And Youtube looper wrapper sites too.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Almost all those people charge for the PDFs. They know the PDF is more useful, that's why the video is free. I don't think your software is (or should be) illegal. But it's a form of theft, and incredibly unethical. These people worked very hard on these tabs and don't make much money. You (and kiaansaraiya and neogenix) should be ashamed of yourselves. You don't deserve your guitar if you steal tabs from working mus…

It's much more simple than that. You are not stealing their tabs, you are stealing/downloading their youtube videos which falls under copyright. Forget about the tabs, the first step is illegal and theft already. It doesn't matter how much money or work the creator does, you should not steal other people's work like this and I am sure youtube doesn't allow this on their tos

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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post #5
post #3

I'm curious how it works for videos that contain moving tab (as in, the playhead stays in the center while the tab moves behind it). Seems like that sort of tab wouldn't work with this approach...? Kudos from one of the Soundslice guys — we've been making web-based tab and sheet music stuff since 2012. :)

It wouldn't work for that type of video. As far as I've seen almost all tutorial videos on Youtube have a fixed tab bar though. I'm using it only for learning guitar (i'm a beginner).

Not to rain on the parade but my (er...considerable) experience has been that the videos you end up watching to figure out non-trivial songs do not have tabs at all. The teacher generally describes finger positions one finger at a time visually, or will describe fingering as "it's a D chord shifted up to the 7th fret" etc. E.g Uncle Stu -- no tabs, 12-Foot Chain guy has a sketchy tab once in a while, Shutup and Play guy -- no tabs, Jon MacLennan, Justin, Marty (cool Marty) puts up pencil tabs here and there, other Marty (hat guy) does not, etc. I haven't heard Rick Beato play in a long time but I don't remember him putting up tabs either.

Heck I'm going to say it: tabs actually aren't the medium you want anyway. After getting up and running on guitar, players know what all the chords look like so only need the names with perhaps the fret position as a guide to the voicing.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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post #41

Are there technical hurdles around just programmatically generating a tab from any song or audio recording itself? This is interesting and all but seems to use computer vision rather than audio processing?

Reddit r/guitar gets a lot of questions about AI generated tabs that are unplayable (the fingering is just crazy). You need to both work out the chords and also decide on fingerings a human could perform. Seems possible, but more then just audio processing

But you can play them if you have 6-finger AI hands.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

#59

Almost all those people charge for the PDFs. They know the PDF is more useful, that's why the video is free. I don't think your software is (or should be) illegal. But it's a form of theft, and incredibly unethical. These people worked very hard on these tabs and don't make much money. You (and kiaansaraiya and neogenix) should be ashamed of yourselves. You don't deserve your guitar if you steal tabs from working mus…

The people making the video are already making the information public, you are just making it more convenient. This strikes me as similar to downloading public court documents from a government site to make them available outside of their for-profit service.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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post #14

i've actually been looking for something like this for so long. all the online transcribers make me pay and i just wanna learn how play songs from a video. this is a great idea!

learn by ear! It's free and you don't need youtube!

I'd love to. I'm 40+, never played an instrument in my life or did anything with music. I tried several approaches to improve my ability to recognize chords by ear or even individual notes, but it is incredibly hard for me to the point it feels impossible even for a couple of notes.
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