This is just fantastic. Wish you guys were around while i was trying to learn how to play guitar. Seems like i m going to have to buy a acoustic guitar and give it a second shot. Good job.
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#52A killer feature would be auto-generation of the tab from the audio. Then you'd instantly have tons of content. Does anyone know if this is remotely possible? I messed around briefly with this a while back, and I remember it being very difficult to get a note (much less a chord) from a noisy signal.
Monophonic pitch estimation isn't too hard these days (see e.g. the YIN frequency estimator). Polyphonic pitch detection of even a single instrument is a hard problem. Real music, with multiple instruments, becomes a very challenging unsolved AI problem with current technology.
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#53This is awesome. One bit of feedback: It'd be cool to have some fixed area on the screen where you are showing the current chord (in a big font), while the video is playing. In the Super Mario example:
http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/
It's tough for me to follow the tab while it's scrolling rapidly by... so I'd like to see a big A7 / B / etc. on the top right corner of the screen, so I can follow along with my guitar.
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#54This is really amazing and wonderful.
I hope it doesn't come into the cross hairs of sheet music / copyright industry the way most of the tabs and lyrics sites seem to have.
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#55This is awesome. One bit of feedback: It'd be cool to have some fixed area on the screen where you are showing the current chord (in a big font), while the video is playing. In the Super Mario example: http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/ It's tough for me to follow the tab while it's scrolling rapidly by... so I'd like to see a big A7 / B / etc. on the top right corner of the screen, so I can follow along with…
Yep, if the current and upcoming chords were fixed it would be much easier to play along with
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#56This is awesome. One bit of feedback: It'd be cool to have some fixed area on the screen where you are showing the current chord (in a big font), while the video is playing. In the Super Mario example: http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/ It's tough for me to follow the tab while it's scrolling rapidly by... so I'd like to see a big A7 / B / etc. on the top right corner of the screen, so I can follow along with…
Yeah I get a bit of a blur which makes it difficult to follow. Not sure how you'd fix this without making it too jarring. Your idea would definitely help.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copyright: YouTube is the host and already has well-formed copyright/takedown/safe harbor policies. The transcription/tab output itself can not be copyright - sweat of the brow. There is the question of whether a useful user resource can be maintained if/when the host video is taken down - can the tab stand alone without the original audio? I think so - reduced utility, of course, but legally on solid ground and stil…
Sweat of the brow is not currently and never has been a defense to copyright. Otherwise, copyright on books could be evaded by simply copying a book word for word. The original composer owns the copyright on the arrangement itself. Your imperfect transcription is a separate derivative work but is still subject to the copyright of the original. So the question remains: how do you plan on dealing with the copyright iss…
I'm not the poster/site author, and we're saying the same thing. My claim is that since YouTube ultimately is responding to copyright complaints, SoundSlice is no worse than a tab-sharing site with regard to infringement. I don't see how they can be liable.
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#58No sound on Safari 6 Mountain Lion
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#59Incredible work Adrian. +1 across the board.
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#60This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you plan on handling copyright down the road? 2nd edit: Feature request, if you hover over chords, it'd be cool if it showed the finger placement
Have you tried guitar pro? It doesn't have any video component, but as far as tab software goes, this isn't even comparable.
but as far as html5 tools for guitar tabs goes, this is certainly a huge step forward.