song → tab.

how to use it.

get a song in

pick one part of a song, like the intro or a verse. short clips work best.

• microphone. play the song out loud and hold your phone near the speaker. a quiet room helps. when you stop, the app asks what the song is, so you can find it again later.
• import song. choose a song saved on your device, like a wav or mp3.
• trim. drag the red lines around the part you want, 10 to 40 seconds, then press analyse.

read the chart

you get two things: the chords, and a tab showing the notes.

• chords. each box is one bar. the dots show where your fingers go. a chord that arrives partway through a bar, like a passing chord before a chorus, gets its own place in the bar.
• tab. each line is a string, lowest at the bottom. the numbers are the frets to press, and 0 means play the string open.
• a faded bar means the app isn't sure. check that one by ear first.
• if it says no steady beat found, the part is probably played freely, like a slow intro. the bar lines are a guess there: trim to where the band plays in time, or set the count and tempo yourself.
• tap any bar to change its chord, how long it lasts, or to pick an easier way to play it.
• full screen. the button beside the tempo fills the screen with the tab and chords. tap it again to go back.

practise

press play and the chart follows along with the song.

• speed. slow it down to 0.75× or 0.5×. it gets slower, not lower.
• loop bars. turn it on, tap the bars you want to repeat, then tap done. on a computer, shift-click works too.
• metronome. clicks along with the beat, with a higher click at the start of each bar.
• line delay. if the red line runs ahead of what you hear, which happens with bluetooth and in cars, tap + until they match. it goes back to zero each time you open the app.
• the space bar plays and pauses, so your hands can stay on the guitar.
• tuner and metronome. they're on the first screen, and under the chords while you play a song. start the tuner and play one string at a time. its circle fills red as it gets closer, and turns solid red when it's in tune. tap a string's circle to tune that one only, and tap it again to go back to listening for any string.
• chords & scales. 48 chords over four pages, from the first shapes to the barre chords (the fret number says where a barre sits), and the scales that matter for soloing. tap a card to see it on the whole neck; swipe or use the arrows to change key. on a song, scales open in its key. practice runs a one-minute chord-change drill with a click and the next chord shown ahead. tap + on two to four chords to drill just those.

make it easier

if the chords look hard, the app can help.

• simple chords is on to start: a Cmaj7 shows as C, a Dadd11 as D, so a beginner sees shapes they know. tap full chords above the chord boxes to see the richer names the song really uses.
• the capo line under the chords shows where a capo turns hard shapes into easy ones.
• if it says drop D tuning, tune your lowest string down to D first.
• songs that move in threes, like waltzes and slow 6/8 ballads, are counted three to a bar rather than four. if the count looks wrong, the 3/4 4/4 6/8 6/4 7/4 buttons beside the tempo fix it without analysing the song again.
• slow songs are sometimes read at double their speed. the ½× and 2× buttons either side of the tempo change the count, and every note moves with it.
• if a bass guitar is playing on the recording, its notes are left out: they are below anything a guitar can play.

keep it

your work doesn't disappear when you close the page.

• songs save by themselves in this browser, so you can come back to them.
• print makes a song sheet you can print or keep as a pdf.

good to know

the app makes its best guess from the audio, and sometimes it's wrong. one guitar playing on its own works much better than a full band. trust your ears, and change anything that sounds off.

your audio never leaves your device: it's captured, analysed and played back right here. we count how the tool is used to improve it.