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Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by namanyayg »

This is absolutely awesome. I've been learning guitar since ~15 months now and I strongly dislike the ads and popups in all (most?) of the guitar sites, and this is a perfect simple interface that does the job and doesn't waste time. Great idea and great execution.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by rockbruno »

cpursley wrote: post #4

Much needed, UG has become unusable. These days I’m a fan of Songsterr. Even handed them my credit card - I love that you can play along with the actual tracks, backing tracks (YouTube) or midi. I find myself learning more songs than the UG way.

If you have Guitar Pro, you can download the gp files from Songsterr and open them directly in GP. I like this because I can then have the same features (apart from the Youtube bit) with all of GP's added goodies.

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Post by nelsonfigueroa »

Ultimate Guitar has gotten worse over the years. I noticed they're featuring TikTok-like videos on their home page now which gave me a laugh. I switched to Songsterr a while back and it's amazing. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for tabs.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by adrianh »

Shameless self-promotion for my site Soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/

Tabs plus sheet music, synced with original source recordings, with the web's best learning/practice features.

Example: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/txqfc/

It's a "BYOM" (bring your own music) situation as opposed to a library like Ultimate Guitar. But it's reasonably easy to import stuff. You can import a Guitar Pro file from Ultimate Guitar, Songsterr or wherever — our MusicXML and GP importers are excellent, seasoned by nearly a decade's worth of development and edge cases.

We've also recently launched a PDF/photo scanner, using machine learning to extract the musical semantics (in case you have some music on paper or in PDF). https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

We've also got a full-featured notation/tab editor, and lots of musicians use it for transcribing source recordings. https://www.soundslice.com/transcribe/

Also relevant: we've never had ads, we've never taken funding and we've been profitable for years. Sustainable, product-driven and musician-first.

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