Practice guitar with Soundslice

Our interactive sheet music player helps you learn faster and more effectively. Here’s an overview.

How Soundslice helps you practice guitar

Our player gives you a wealth of tools for learning and practicing — for any music you put into it.

Play and interact

Hear your music, with notes lighting up visually. Click any note to jump to that moment. Much better than a PDF.

Change tempo

For fast passages, slow down the playback without changing pitch.

Loop sections

Drag across notes to loop playback. We’ll snap to the nearest note, rest or barline, for perfect loops.

Focus on your part

In a band? Quickly solo or mute individual parts — focusing only on your guitar part.

Visual fretboard

Our visual fretboard lights up notes during playback. Great for visual learners.

Chord chart view

If your music contains chord diagrams, don’t miss our chord chart view — no notes, only chords.

Practice with real recordings

Sync your music with real human performances — MP3s or videos — so you can play along and study the subtlety of great musicians.

Practice and create on any device

Soundslice works on all web-enabled devices, so you can practice on your computer, phone or tablet. No plugins, downloads or apps needed.

Focus mode

Select any range of bars and we’ll hide all other notation (and audio). Save these as “clips” for easy access later.

Speed training

Ease from comfortable speeds to more challenging ones by gradually increasing the playback speed.

Metronome and count-in

Hear a rhythmic pulse during audio playback, even accounting for tempo variations during a synced performance.

Customize layout

Lay out the notation exactly how you prefer, fitting whatever screen you’re using.

Customize the notation

Quickly show/hide standard notation, tablature, fingering, lyrics, chord names and more.

Transpose

Change keys instantly, affecting both the notation and the audio playback. Yes, we even transpose tab.

Pitch names

Just starting out with sheet music? Use our pitch names feature to display the pitch name (A through G) above every note.

Rhythm counts

Still learning to count rhythm? Use our rhythm counts feature to display the current beat number above every note.

Player style

Customize how you’d like the player to look and function: scrolling behavior, colors and highlighting during playback.

Synth overlay

This lets you hear synthetic and real playback at the same time. It’s useful to emphasize your part over a backing track, or to verify notation matches a recording.

Language

Change the player’s language in the Settings menu. We support several languages; let us know if you’d like to help translate into yours.

Notebook

The Notebook is your private area for comments on any music in Soundslice. Use it to track practice history or leave yourself reminders or notes.

Clips

Clips let you save specific subsections of music for easy access — essentially bookmarking “a slice of your slice.”

Horizontal notation

Show the notation as a continuous horizontal line — handy if you want your eyes to stay in the same place while reading.

Multiple recordings

Any music in Soundslice can be synced with multiple (different) performances. Great for comparing different musicians’ approaches to the same piece.

Waveform view

Navigate and create precise loops with the help of a visual waveform of the recording.

Shortcuts

Quickly play/pause, change speed, navigate the notation and zoom in/out with keyboard shortcuts.

First-class tablature support

Finally, web-based notation software that treats tablature with respect. We natively support nearly every kind of tab marking: bends, slides, harmonics, tapping and more. No need to hack around your notation software to make proper tab.

And for those of you who “think in tab” rather than notation, our tab entry is optimized for you. Just enter fret numbers and strings, and we’ll automatically put the notes in.

How do I get music into Soundslice?

Use our import features if you have existing music. Our PDF/image scanner works on photos or PDFs, and we also read some native file formats (MusicXML, Guitar Pro and more).
Or start from scratch. Use our full-featured notation and tab editor to create sheet music. It’s free for basic usage, and there’s no limit on how many pieces of music you have in your account.
Sync with real recordings. Our syncpoint editor makes it easy to sync your sheet music with YouTube or MP3s. Just press Play and tap your keyboard on the downbeats.
Create on desktop, tablet and mobile with nothing to install. Everything works in your web browser, saved in the cloud.
Simple to share. Sharing with students, bandmates or choirmates is as easy as sending a link.

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