About Soundslice

To learn a blues guitar lick, you can’t just look at some tablature in a book. You need to listen to somebody playing it, to understand the feeling.

To learn the piano part from a Mozart sonata, you can’t just listen to a virtuoso’s recording. You need to read the sheet music, to know precisely which notes to play.

To learn a 350 bpm jazz saxophone solo, you can’t just play along with the recording from day one. You need to slow it down, loop it and woodshed, one phrase at a time.

To figure out a bluegrass banjo performance from YouTube, you can’t just watch the video 50 times and try to remember it forever. You need to be able to write down your transcription, before it inevitably fades from memory.

Learning music is complicated, and we musicians are used to juggling multiple tools to deal with that. Sheet music, MP3 players, YouTube videos, slowdown/looping apps, notation/tab editing software. Why isn’t there a single tool that combines everything a musician needs?

We were frustrated by that — so we created Soundslice.

The player

How Soundslice works

Soundslice combines audio, video and music notation into a single, elegant interface. No more juggling, no more wasting time. Our goal is to be the best way to learn any piece of music.

Everything on our site is based on the Soundslice player, a hybrid audio player / notation viewer. It lets you:

• View music notation/tablature synced with audio/video recordings
• Click on notation to go to that moment in the recording
• Slow down without changing pitch
• Loop sections by dragging across the notes
• Hide parts of music you don’t care about
• Zoom and re-wrap notation to fit smaller screens
• Notate music with a full-fledged notation/tab editor
• Do all of this from the comfort of your web browser, without installing anything
• And much more!

Every piece of music on our platform is called a slice. Soundslice is all about learning and teaching music via slices.

The creation tools

Bring your own music

With other music-learning sites, you’re limited to the music that they’ve made available. Soundslice, on the other hand, is open ended: you can use whatever music you want to learn.

We’ve spent many years building tools to help you start learning and practicing as fast as possible:

• Our PDF/image scanner lets you import photos or PDFs of sheet music.
• Our MusicXML and Guitar Pro file importers let you import digital-native files.
• Our notation/tab editor lets you notate from scratch or make changes to anything you’ve imported.
• Our syncpoint editor lets you quickly sync sheet music with audio or video.

It’s all designed and programmed in-house, by us, and we put a lot of thought into making things work seamlessly and beautifully.

The business

Sustainable and customer-driven

We have a simple business that works the old-fashioned way, by offering products people pay for.

We make a living by charging money for certain features and by licensing our technology.

At the same time, we realize being a musician isn’t the most lucrative job in the world — so we’re proud to offer a lot of features for free. Many musicians around the world get a lot of value from Soundslice without ever having paid us a cent, and we’re cool with that.

We don’t have ads. Never have, never will. We want you to focus on learning, not being distracted.

We’ve never had any investors. Which means we don’t have venture capitalists breathing down our necks to sell out. Instead, we answer directly to our customers, using their feedback as guidance on what to do next.

The next step

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