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Re:The Sperry Rand Corporation – By Bradford Morgan White on Monday December 02, 2024 @02:35PM (#42299543)
The founder of Sperry Corp is this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry who has an incredible dossier of inventions to his name and his son Lawerence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Sperry was an aviation pioneer and inventor who invented the first guided missile, autopilot, and much more, as well as being accredited to starting the "Mile High Club". I'm reading the Elmer Sperry biography currently and its incredible how many projects they worked on in such a short span. Makes you question how productive we are in the computer age...
This is a huge unmet need in the market. I have over 300 guitar parts recorded into iOS Music Memos, which does a decent job of automating the break out of chords played but provides no way to build lyrics on top, note the tabs (which is HUGE, because the next day I always get foggy on how to play what I recorded and a month later have no idea...)

Excited to give this a red hot go!

TRV$DJAM Charges Nothing But A Tweet For New Mixtape

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/trvdjam-charges-nothing-but-a-tweet-for-new-mixtape/

"Here’s a cool way for music artists to reward their biggest fans and get some Viral Marketing® in return: drummer Travis Barker and turntablist DJ-AM (aka Adam Goldstein) are offering their just-released second mixtape, “Fix Your Face Vol. 2 - Coachella ‘09″, up for free download in exchange for a mere Twitter message."

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Yep it's a variant of that. Those links above are what I'm looking for, so if any others have some suggestions, sprinkle them with a little contempt, I'll take em!