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New: Solo a track with a single click
June 10, 2020Introducing our player’s new Solo button. -
New courses from the Soundslice community, June 2020
June 4, 2020New releases include a free collection of etudes for saxophonists learning jazz vocabulary, a piece for harp guitar, and a virtuosic fingerstyle composition by Antoine Boyer. -
Better lyrics and chord entry
June 4, 2020We’ve improved our notation editor to make it much easier to enter lyrics. And we’ve improved chord entry too. -
How teachers are using Soundslice during the pandemic, Part 2
May 28, 2020A follow up to our first story on distance learning. -
New editor features, May 28
May 28, 2020We’ve made several improvements to our notation editor this week, most notably a redesigned “live editing” view. Here’s an overview. -
New courses from the Soundslice community, May 2020
May 21, 2020Two new instructional guitar courses made by musicians from the Soundslice community. -
Introducing our notation editor redesign
May 11, 2020We’ve redesigned our notation editor! It’s even more powerful, more beautiful and easier to use than before. We think you’re going to love it. -
How teachers are using Soundslice during the pandemic, Part 1
April 30, 2020We’ve been impressed by teacher’s creativity and resourcefulness. Here are three short case studies. -
Recent transcription covers
April 16, 2020New slices by musicians playing through their hard-earned transcriptions. -
Help translate our site into your language
April 16, 2020We’ve begun work this week to translate much more of our site into languages other than English. Can you help? -
‘Wanna explain that?’ with Andy Wood
April 9, 2020We break down the concepts behind an Andy Wood solo with the man himself. If you’re a guitarist interested in country, chicken pickin’ or bluegrass, this is a must see. -
Announcing ‘performances’
April 9, 2020This new feature, now available for Teacher plan customers, lets your students upload performance audio/video so you can provide feedback. -
New editor features, April 2
April 2, 2020We’ve added the ability to create two-bar repeats (similes), and you can now copy and paste across voices. -
Quick licks: April 1 through the years
April 1, 2020Our collection of April Fool’s Day slices. -
More control over text formatting
March 26, 2020For those of you creating slices: We’ve improved “beat text” and “expression text” so that you can toggle the font, font size and italics. -
New: Quickly toggle fingerings display
March 25, 2020Using Soundslice for music that has fingerings? Now you can quickly hide the fingerings if you don’t want to see them — and toggle them back on at any point. -
Soundslice ‘talent show’ livestream recap
March 19, 2020This week Mark Lettieri, Chris Payton, Antoine Boyer, Kaspar Jalily, Horace Bray, Landon Jordan and Michael Valeanu joined us for a Soundslice “talent show” via Instagram Live. (We need something to do with all this indoor time!) -
Quick licks: Playing ‘outside’ the blues with Shawn Tubbs
March 12, 2020Five licks from Shawn to break you out of your blues-playing rut. -
Improvements to notation display
March 12, 2020We’ve made some big improvements to the way sheet music is displayed on Soundslice. Music across our site should be easier to read and use space more efficiently. -
Featured transcriber: Fred Greene
March 5, 2020Our first “Featured transcriber” interview with a pianist. -
New: Create better music layout with ‘passages’
March 2, 2020Here’s a powerful new feature for those of you creating slices: a way for you to tell Soundslice that a specific bar in your slice starts a new musical idea. -
Various features and fixes, Feb. 27
February 27, 2020Here’s a roundup of some small improvements we’ve made recently. -
Quick licks: Tora Dahle Aagård
February 25, 2020Quick licks from a Norwegian blues guitar phenom. -
Improvements to slides in tablature
February 24, 2020We’ve improved the way slides are displayed, and we’ve added a new type of slide in our editor. -
Announcing genre pages
February 20, 2020We’ve added a handy way to browse all the slices people are posting to their Soundslice channels: You can now browse by genre. -
Featured transcriber: Lars Petzold-Turcanu
February 18, 2020A discussion with one of the Soundslice team’s favorite transcribers. -
Improvements to multiple-voice editing
February 14, 2020We’ve simplified the way multiple voices work in our notation editor. -
Quick licks: Selections from Anomalie’s Métropole Part II
February 12, 2020Three quick passages from Anomalie’s newest sheet music release. -
Quick licks: 2019 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz finalists
February 4, 2020Short transcriptions from the three finalists. -
New: Edit hairpins in our notation editor
February 3, 2020You can finally add and remove hairpins — aka crescendo or decrescendo markings — in the Soundslice notation editor.