Guitar Tabs 2.0

Tablature file is a popular alternative to sheet music. 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 synchronously with scrolling tabs. Unfortunately, the guitar in the MIDI version sounds just awful.

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

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