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Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by don_draper »

yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

Very nice. You know one feature I would love to see are strumming patterns. It's nice to see the chords but it's tough for an amateur to identify the strumming patterns.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

ebbv wrote: post #24

This is really cool. The thing that's obviously missing to me is chord charts to go along with the chord names. Despite the fact that people can look up the chord elsewhere, the tool would be much more useful to novice players (who are probably the majority of likely users) to simply provide those charts.

agreed and that is coming up soon.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

don_draper wrote: post #31
yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

Very nice. You know one feature I would love to see are strumming patterns. It's nice to see the chords but it's tough for an amateur to identify the strumming patterns.

I have been thinking a lot on how to implement this feature. Showing it easy enough, but creating strumming patterns is a bit of a challenge...

This is my favorite feature though.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by raverbashing »

yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

Great, it's a nice project

However, it seems to have "gone crazy" with this song (which is hard) https://www.youtab.me/music/gkE29Y2PPdd/one-without/withered...

But this one it got very well (it's easy) https://www.youtab.me/music/zGvQx6E4KO4/ruth-laredo/mozart-r... I don't remember all the details but it is pretty close to the original

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by junhiwo »

abakker wrote: post #16

I'm pretty impressed with this - I purposely fed it a song I thought would kill it ("Fuzz Universe" By Paul Gilbert) - It did an impressive job of capturing many of the underlying chords, while ignoring the lead lines over the top. I notice that it is not really great at capturing very fast chord changes, an has some trouble with varying time signatures, but great first effort. It would be pretty cool if you could up…

You and I must be on the same wavelength because the first thing I threw at it was "Scarified".

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

junhiwo wrote: post #35
abakker wrote: post #16

I'm pretty impressed with this - I purposely fed it a song I thought would kill it ("Fuzz Universe" By Paul Gilbert) - It did an impressive job of capturing many of the underlying chords, while ignoring the lead lines over the top. I notice that it is not really great at capturing very fast chord changes, an has some trouble with varying time signatures, but great first effort. It would be pretty cool if you could up…

You and I must be on the same wavelength because the first thing I threw at it was "Scarified".

PG is my all time favorite guitar player.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

tjr wrote: post #22

Wow, at a glance, this appears to be the best auto-chord-transcribers I've used. I'm getting much more usable data out of this than others that I've tried. Do you intend for it to be able to hear altered chords?... #5, b5, etc? It didn't seem to be catching that on a song I submitted, but it got the root and third correct, which is still helpful.

The detection is very sensitive to the harmonic definition of a song more than anything else. On some songs it will do a great job and on other miserably fail. That's why it's also an editor, nothing beats the human ear.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by Yen »

abakker wrote: post #16

I'm pretty impressed with this - I purposely fed it a song I thought would kill it ("Fuzz Universe" By Paul Gilbert) - It did an impressive job of capturing many of the underlying chords, while ignoring the lead lines over the top. I notice that it is not really great at capturing very fast chord changes, an has some trouble with varying time signatures, but great first effort. It would be pretty cool if you could up…

Another good test case for things like this is "Take 5", or any other song with a non-4/4 signature. The chords seem ok, but the beats are just off.

On the other hand, Cake's "Sad Songs and Waltzes", with a very distinct 3/4 signature, analyzes well.

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