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Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by RyanOD »

rc5150 wrote: post #14
kiaansaraiya wrote: post #2

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!

This is absolutely true...but it takes a LOT of time. Fortunately, I first picked up a guitar when I was 13.

I can't imagine getting started with any instrument as an adult. Actually, I'm trying to improve my piano playing right now and it's nearly impossible.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by adrianh »

mschulkind wrote: post #20
adrianh wrote: 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. :)

I don't have an answer, but wanted to say that I started using Soundslice about 9 months ago and I absolutely love it. It does exactly the part of transcribing that I want done for me and nothing more, which is basically none of it except the boring stuff.

Hey, great to hear! Thanks for taking the time to write that. :) Keep transcribing and playing music!

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by devin »

mschulkind wrote: post #20
adrianh wrote: 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. :)

I don't have an answer, but wanted to say that I started using Soundslice about 9 months ago and I absolutely love it. It does exactly the part of transcribing that I want done for me and nothing more, which is basically none of it except the boring stuff.

Care to sell me on it? How dose it compare to musescore?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by simonok »

dieselgate wrote: post #12

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?

Using computer vision to read the existing tab from the page would be more efficient and precise than trying to use audio processing to isolate individual notes from a single instrument in a potentially busy audio track. The existing tabs also nail down which string and fret is used for each note, which would be a difficult task for audio processing because there are multiple combinations of string and fret for any given note. For example, an open G can also be played on the 5th fret of the D string, or the 10th fret of the A string, or the 15th fret of the E string.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by smalltorch »

rc5150 wrote: post #15

Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

This is one i could get behind. I mean, all the tabs are crowdsourced anyway so why can you throw up the paywall only after all the tabs are made.

I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice.

TerminalTabs anyone?

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by bstsb »

smalltorch wrote: post #27
rc5150 wrote: post #15

Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

This is one i could get behind. I mean, all the tabs are crowdsourced anyway so why can you throw up the paywall only after all the tabs are made. I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice. TerminalTabs anyone?

as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by smalltorch »

bstsb wrote: post #28
smalltorch wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one i could get behind. I mean, all the tabs are crowdsourced anyway so why can you throw up the paywall only after all the tabs are made. I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice. TerminalTabs anyone?

as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile

Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable.

I don't like having to switch to desktop mode to transpose though. They want you to get the app to do it on mobile which is enough of a reason to make a special program to do exactly what I want.

Also, scraping chord charts is in a different catagory from tabs. I can't even actually read tabs but with a chord chart you can get close enough to noodle around and emulate. Good enough for my needs.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

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Post by mrln »

rc5150 wrote: post #15

Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

Let me introduce you to freetar! It currently has issues due to cloudflare blocking, however I have already created a pull request that fixes this [0]. Given the code is pretty straightforward, turning it into a scraper shouldn't be too hard of a task!

Here's a working version: https://freetar.sievers.dev

[0] https://github.com/kmille/freetar/pull/90

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