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Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)
Here is what I was cribbing from with my own version. Seems they updated it since.
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.
I was excited to use it, as I really wanted something like this, then I realized it needs AI/Claude (?) That sounds like it can get quite costly. Probably there are ways to do it without AI, I would rather manually annotate the tab area with a visual editor.
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…
counterargument -- these people are making money off of transcribing other people's parts, with no profits shared with the composers.
In some cases, the composer makes the video, and is sharing their own work.
In other cases, the transcribed part is not a composed part, and the composer who is listed (Lennon/McCartney) did not write or perform it (e.g. Ringo's drums).
In yet other cases, the composer was long dead before the recording was made, and the melody being transcribed is meaningfully different than the one they composed. Common in jazz.
"Composer" is a 19th century idea, enshrined in copyright law in the 1920's in order to protect the people who made sheet music for piano players to play in their parlor. Musical expression deserves attribution and protection, but let's not pretend the name on the liner notes is a Beethoven with a long quill creating a work of genius out of their solo effort.
I link to a Patreon in my videos that lets you pay a membership to download the full tabs in PDFs.
Here I was thinking AI might soon replace my painstakingly slow tab transcription efforts altogether. But I never thought about someone just ripping it from the video...
Let me know if it works ;-)
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 g…
> the existing tab from the page would be more efficient and precise
But what about songs that aren't made into a YT video?
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?
I was excited to use it, as I really wanted something like this, then I realized it needs AI/Claude (?) That sounds like it can get quite costly. Probably there are ways to do it without AI, I would rather manually annotate the tab area with a visual editor.
How would you do this without SOME sort of vision/audio model? Are you saying just not an LLM?