Hey Friend,
What is your method for deciphering the different guitar parts you hear in a song you’re learning?
Do you flesh out the melody first, then try to match chords?
Or are you like me, where you find the chord progression first and go from there?
If you’re the later, you might find Chordify helpful.
It’s a clever web app that transcribes audio from videos and MP3s into interactive chord charts. It uses complex algorithms to analyze the audio and pull out the chords.
Then the app formats the progression in real-time so you can get right to learning the song.
You can sign up for a membership for a nominal monthly cost right now (less the $2 a month holiday pricing), but they already have an impressive catalog of songs to check out for free.
Don’t expect the app to give you a ton of detail or break down complex chords. What you’re getting here is a starting point… a nudge in the right direction.
It’s still up to you to use your ears for determining arpeggios or which chord voicing was actually used.
Like I said, it’s not a simple process to for a computer to process audio to tablature. I can only imagine the amount of programming that went into developing those algorithms.
But a computer still can’t do what our ears can do. Because we don’t fully understand the human brain, it’s impossible to duplicate sound translation from wave to how we perceive it.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s great to have software like this for educational purposes. And it makes for a helpful shortcut when you’re stuck.
Just don’t expect any of this software to be perfect.
You already have perfection between your ears, so invest time in developing your listening skills in addition to using shortcuts like Chordify.
It’ll get you going down the right path - you just have to figure out which fork to choose.
Peace~
Dave
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