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Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by adrianh on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:16PM (#7416919)
We've built a sheet-music rendering engine in JavaScript/HTML5. It syncs real audio with sheet music and is intended to be the best way to learn a song.

Here's a quick video demo I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1go7Ld1Q4

Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by bigsparky on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:24PM (#7419873)
Very nice program.

Would be great to incorporate learning tracks like treehouse -

let the user decide what songs they want to learn - and keep track of how they are doing on their goals

Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by nate on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:47PM (#7417151)
This is ridiculously awesome :) Bravo.
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by neilk on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:13PM (#7417351)
I would like to point out that this is more awesome than it even looks. Try selecting a portion of the song, in the usual way with your cursor.
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by roryokane on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:31AM (#7420486)
Notezilla (http://www.notezilla.io/library) is similar. It, too, plays real audio synced with visible and interactive sheet music, but it is for classical and pop music instead of guitar music. It doesn’t support guitar tabs, and it has a smaller library, but everything in its library is free.
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by callumjones on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @03:38AM (#7420643)
This is incredible, it's amazing to see this all running in the browser.

One nag, I didn't actually know I could scrub on the tabs until I clicked - have you thought about adding a grey-like highlight on hover? Either with the same bar or highlighting the notes under the mouse?

Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by ekryski on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:57AM (#7420411)
Incredible work guys. I signed up quite a while back and you have come a super long way! The site is looking great and the live sheet music is spectacular.
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by ezl on Monday March 17, 2014 @04:31PM (#7417896)
This is awesome.

As someone trying to learn to play guitar, being able to loop and 4 measures at a time to play along with is incredibly useful.

Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by taylorhughes on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:36PM (#7417515)
If you look closely while it loads: "Reticulating splines..." — best rendering messaging ever
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by claar on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:39PM (#7419939)
This is awesome. Great job on this. Love seeing music and computing intersect!
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by rabino on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:59PM (#7419765)
This is one of the best products I've seen in a while. Mad props.
Re:Show HN: Soundslice v2 – Sheet music + guitar tab + real ... by waxpancake on Monday March 17, 2014 @08:03PM (#7419011)
This works shockingly well on iOS.