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I don't get it. What is the product/service here? I search for songs, but I only find crude YouTube videos. In the demos there's a song with a guitar tab, but no sheet. Apart from the landing page demo I couldn't find any sheet music. I don't know who transcribes the sheets, who select the songs, I don't know anything.

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Soundslice is a service where you can transcribe music easily. Many sites that offer "guitar tabs" use either an ASCII-based format or files for GuitarPro and similar programs. Soundslice allows you to transcribe directly from a YouTube video, so you get the original sound together with the tabs, looping, slowing down and the ability to transcribe songs yourself.

Here's an example: http://www.soundslice.com/tabs/2865/adrian-holovaty-everythi...

Now they've launched a sheet-music player that's featured on the homepage. Adrian has posted an article about it on his blog: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/soundslice-sheet-music/

Currently, only they transcribe the sheet-music, via their Pitch Perfect program: http://www.soundslice.com/pitch-perfect/

While it's cool, they only have 7 songs or artists. All of these artists aren't particularly well known. Usually when I see stuff like this, I assume that getting the rights to the songs people actually want to learn how to play is too expensive, so this sort of thing never really takes off. Well, not never, I just have never seen something as cool as this really get going.

I would love to practice guitar with something like this. Hopefully they start to offer more songs.

> I would love to practice guitar with something like this. Hopefully they start to offer more songs.

That's my hope as well. It's good to see someone attempting to compete with ultimate guitar, which lets be honest, hasn't done a damn thing to improve their site in the last 10 years.

Absolutely.

I won't lie, I've totally stagnated in playing because most learning resources are awful.

Ok, I understand now, but it isn't well explained in their site.

Aren't there any services out there for sharing of music played alongside the sheet, just like they do in the example, mostly for classical music?

Here is it: http://www.notezilla.io/

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