Guitar Tabs 2.0

Tablature is a popular alternative to musical notation. Many musicians prefer tabs because they are better adapted to the characteristics of a particular instrument than a more versatile musical notation. On the Internet, you can find tabs for almost any music. Many sites with tablature libraries allow you to play a song in MIDI format in sync with the scrolling tabs. Unfortunately, the guitar in the MIDI version sounds terrible.



Adrian Holovaty, a web programmer (one of the authors of the Django framework) and an amateur guitarist, created the Soundslice web application that allows you to work with tablature in a more convenient and modern way. To sound tabs, it is not MIDI that is used, but video from Youtube synchronized with the tab track. Video can be looped on the selected fragment, and in browsers on the Webkit engine - slow down twice without changing the pitch. You can create tablature collectively - any registered user can add their own track to an existing project.



The site is still very young - it started on November 15, so there is not enough of some basic features yet. There is not even a catalog of ready-made tablature and search for it, but only a search for videos on Youtube, with notes about the presence of tablature. Nevertheless, the interface is very convenient and clear, synchronization with video works fine. The plans for the near future - to create a catalog of tabs, add support for musical notation, tablature for other instruments other than guitar.