The default visualization depends on the slice you’re looking at, but you’ll always see a double-arrow icon next to it click that to open the Visualizations menu, then select Mixer. The visualizations menu is at the bottom of the player, toward the right. The Mixer is one of the available “visualizations” for each slice. How can I solo/mute an instrument in the Synthetic recording?įor slices with more than one instrument, it can be useful to mute the ones you don’t care about. While this doesn’t sound particularly beautiful, it can be useful during practice to hear a “perfect” computer performance, especially at a slow tempo. You’ll see a little popup with the timecode and measure number for easy navigation.Īll slices have a “Synthetic” recording, which is computer-generated playback of the music. If you want to go to a particular timecode or measure number, click and drag the horizontal line at the bottom of the player (to the right of the Play button). Because the audio/video and notation are synced, we’ll immediately take you to the appropriate part of the audio/video. The simplest way is to click on the music notation. How do I navigate to a particular moment in the audio/video? Simply press the Play button, or use your spacebar. In this case, our player will fall back to synthetic playback with MIDI-ish sounds. That must be because the slice’s creator didn’t add any recordings. Why wouldn’t a particular slice have a “Recording” section? Our player will start the new recording where the old one left off. You can switch between recordings any time - even during playback. People use recordings in all sorts of ways: for different audio mixes, backing tracks or even completely separate performances of the same piece. Here’s an example, in which there are multiple audio recordings (lead vs. A slice can have many recordings.Īt the bottom of a slice, you’ll see a “Recording” section with the name of the currently selected recording. That’s our term for the audio or video that’s been synced with notation.
The plus and minus buttons are shortcuts you can also click on the speed number and enter a number. Use the speed controls at lower left to slow down audio without changing pitch.With a loop already created, click/drag one of its edges to resize it.Drag across music notation to loop that section of audio/video.Click on music notation to navigate to that moment in the audio/video.But you should be aware you can do the following: It really depends on your preferred learning style and the particular piece of music. What’s the best way to learn with Soundslice? There’s no limit to number of instruments/parts or length of music. More precisely, we support any genre or instrumentation in common Western musical notation. What kind of music does Soundslice support?Īnything from guitar tabs to band/choral arrangements to orchestral scores. You can also buy high-quality lessons and transcriptions from our store (or put together a course package yourself!). You can use our tools to create slices, or you can sit back and learn from the many slices other people have created. Every piece of music on Soundslice is a slice. That’s our term for a piece of interactive music notation/tablature. It’s the learning and practice environment you’ve always dreamed of. With Soundslice, everything is integrated.
Gone are the days of cross-referencing a YouTube video, in one browser window, with a guitar tab in another window - or using transcription software alongside separate notation software. With Soundslice, you’ll learn faster and more effectively, because everything is synced together - audio/video recordings, music notation, tablature (if applicable) and intuitive practice tools. And our “About Soundslice” page has the backstory on why we created this site. If you’re new here, a nice place to start is our community page. Our goal is to be the best way to learn any piece of music. Soundslice is a platform for learning music via interactive music notation.
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