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YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by fredsanford »

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…

1) Allow me to open links in a new tab. Without this, I'll never use your site.

2) The back button is there for a reason and I like to use it. Again, without this, I'll never use your site.

3) Search for '"billy preston" circles' (without the single quotes). From the results, choose "D&F - Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston - [Dave and..." -- Nothing happens on the resulting page other than chords are generated. The chords are close to right (IIRC) but, you cannot listen to the song to transcribe the lyrics. Zoom in and out works.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by jordanwallwork »

yoodit wrote: post #33
don_draper wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Don't implement strumming patterns! I've watched my wife trying to learn guitar pursing her lips saying up-down-up-up-down to herself and it just sounds robotic. Once you can play the chords smoothly enough strumming just happens. Even better, everyone seems to strum their own way (i cant sing so i strum a lot to compensate, whereas i have a friend with a beautiful voice who barely touches the strings)

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by pcorey »

This is very very cool. How exactly are you getting the audio from youtube? I'm assuming you somehow pull the audio from youtube in your backend (how?), analyze it, use that analysis to build your display and then sync that with the playing youtube video?

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by adamnemecek »

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…

Is this a proprietary algorithm?

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by mcnape »

Hey, great job on the website! I have one small criticism (in addition to others already listed here). I put in a song that was in the key of B. The most-used chords of this key are B, E, F#, and G#m - as I'm sure you're well aware. However, the songs chords were detected as B, E, F# and Abm. While technically correct, as Abm and G#m are the same chord, the convention is to list Abm as G#m in this case. I believe this is to avoid mixing sharps and flats in the written chords forms. Written chords should either all be in flats or sharps, rarely if ever mixed. Certain keys are listed with sharps, and others with flats. Here are the most common ones:

C - n/a

D - sharps

Eb - flats

E - sharps

F - flats

F# - sharps

G - sharps

Ab - flats

A - sharps

Bb - flats

B - sharps

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by abakker »

junhiwo wrote: post #42
yoodit wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PG is my all time favorite guitar player.

Same here. I'm considering flying to Japan in November just to see Mr. Big perform at the Budokan.

I wish I would be ble to do that. In the mean time I'm enrolled in his artistworks classes, which are excellent. It's taking quite a bit of re-learning to do things his way, but I'm willing to admit his way is better than mine was.

Yeah, he's my favorite guitar player ever also. Not sure anything tops Fuzz Universe in my mind. But most of his songs are great.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by skeletonjelly »

mdturnerphys wrote: post #45
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 cool—thanks for sharing! One feature that might be nice would be to allow for transposing or denoting that a capo should be used.

Yep absolutely this!

Example:

https://www.youtab.me/music/_vAC1WCDa4n/band-of-horses/no-on...

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