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Making the ultimate-guitar.com web player easier to practice with
Author : mattigames
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-01-06 10:56 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| krat0sprakhar wrote:
| Really cool! I've struggled with a similar issue in Guitar Pro
| and Ultimate guitar. Also that song by Gojira is incredible. I'm
| currently learning Silvera but Heaviest Matter is my next one.
| Would love to collaborate on covers if you are open to it :)
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| Contact is in my profile.
| agentwiggles wrote:
| Since this is somewhat related - I've often wanted an open-source
| "tab player" (and more importantly tab _editor_) for various side
| project ideas I have kicking around in my head.
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| Is anyone aware of something like that? Most of the searching
| I've done hasn't turned up too much in the way of results.
|
| Flat.io has a pretty cool offering, but if I could find something
| that would be fully under my control, that would be even cooler.
| beezlebroxxxxxx wrote:
| There is TuxGuitar. It can be buggy, but works pretty well most
| of the time. The one limitation you'll have is I don't think it
| can play gpx files if that is what you're looking for.
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| *edit: I don't know about the current status of maintenance on
| it. I remember development fading away some years ago, but I
| also see some recent updates so maybe it has been picked up
| again.
| agentwiggles wrote:
| Tux is great for what it is! I didn't specify this in my OP,
| but I'm looking for something that could be embedded in a web
| app. Still though, TuxGuitar is a great piece of software, I
| used it a ton in my early guitar days.
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| adrianh wrote:
| Check out Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/) -- I founded
| it 10 years ago and we're a team of three people. It's a world-
| class learning and practice tool for music, with a built-in
| notation/tab editor, all web-based. The learning/practice tool
| (our player) is embeddable in your own site, though the editor
| isn't.
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| It's not 100% what you're asking for, but perhaps you'll find
| it interesting!
| agentwiggles wrote:
| Very cool - this is in the same vertical as my burgeoning
| side project so it's both encouraging and slightly
| intimidating to see your work! I've actually used your tool
| before when trying to break down a solo from a youtube video,
| it's pretty awesome.
|
| You're also quite a talented guitarist - I really liked your
| arrangment of the Mario Odyssey theme!
|
| (side note - what a cool thing about HN, to run into the
| folks behind useful software!)
| mynameisash wrote:
| As someone who is musically inept, I'm contemplating learning an
| instrument in the near-ish future. I tried to teach myself guitar
| several years back, but it didn't work (per Mitch Hedberg[0]).
|
| This next time around, I'll likely hire a teacher to make sure I
| get the basics, and a friend recommended starting with a ukulele
| before moving to guitar. I'm curious if there's a good
| app/website that can help newbies learn. Anyone have experience
| here and any recommendations?
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| [0] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/899858
| LunarAurora wrote:
| Look at https://yousician.com/
| bmelton wrote:
| Marty Schwartz on Youtube is pretty decent for beginners.
| Having a visual reference is nice, and he goes at it super
| slow-paced.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNSaXAe8tyg
| fintler wrote:
| Justin Guitar is what finally worked for me.
|
| https://www.justinguitar.com/
| pigcat wrote:
| Guitareo is excellent. No affiliation, just a happy customer.
| Wish I had started with them from the start.
|
| That Mitch Hedberg quote is amazing!
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| Practicing away from the screen is a good idea. My approach has
| been:
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| 1. Reduce song to discrete riffs
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| 2. Practice each riff slowly, breaking it down bar by bar
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| 3. Begin connecting riffs together at a slow speed
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| Chunking it into riffs is nice because they tend to be more
| recognizable than just bars, and they're often repeated. It's
| also nice when someone asks, "can you play something?" and you
| can just play a few riffs without needing to set up backing
| tracks/Guitar Pro/etc.
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| From here, bringing in a computer starts to have benefits:
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| 4. Start playing entirety of song at slow tempo in Guitar Pro.
| Raise tempo so long as everything holds together.
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| I also like printing out tabs and just using paper as much as
| possible. Being at my computer makes it much easier to tweak
| things which distracts from technique practice.
| freedomben wrote:
| Agree completely. For 20 years I played through memorization
| and could learn a new song pretty quickly. In the last few
| years I've started using apps (like a Guitar Hero style) and it
| feels like I'm learning the songs, but I can't hardly play them
| without the screen. Even though it's funner using the screen,
| I'm going back to just memorizing.
| sogen wrote:
| Nice informative write up.
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