Practice violin with Soundslice
Our interactive sheet music player helps you learn faster and more effectively. Here’s an overview.
How Soundslice helps you practice violin
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.
Visual violin
The visual violin shows the instrument’s fingerboard, with notes lighting up on the strings during playback. Great for beginner violinists.
Focus mode
Select any range of bars and we’ll hide all other notation (and audio). Save these as “clips” for easy access later.
Metronome and count-in
Hear a rhythmic pulse during audio playback, even accounting for tempo variations during a synced performance.
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.
Speed training
Ease from comfortable speeds to more challenging ones by gradually increasing the playback speed.
Customize layout
Lay out the notation exactly how you prefer, fitting whatever screen you’re using.
Customize the notation
Quickly show/hide standard notation, fingering, lyrics, chord names and more.
Transpose
Change keys instantly, affecting both the notation and the audio playback.
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.
How do I get music into Soundslice?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Create on desktop, tablet and mobile with nothing to install. Everything works in your web browser, saved in the cloud.
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Simple to share. Sharing with students, bandmates or choirmates is as easy as sending a link.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Create on desktop, tablet and mobile with nothing to install. Everything works in your web browser, saved in the cloud.
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Simple to share. Sharing with students, bandmates or choirmates is as easy as sending a link.