I’m curious if there are any tools that will help you pause and restart songs and even slow them down so you can practice chunking? I noticed Josh uses a pedal to start and stop the songs on the lessons.
Is there anything like that that can help me chunk bars of a song at a time and even slow the song down?
Yes Songsterr but you have to subscribe to access those features.
Yep, Songsterr paid can do that and more. Slow it down, chunk off bars, repeat only those particular bars, etc.
Are you trying to do this with audio files? Or streaming? Or youtube? Or …? Youtube has tools like LoopTube and others. For audio files, I believe Transcribe! would do all of that (not free). For streaming, ya got me. There’s probably something, but I’m not familiar.
Youtube has both pause (of course) and playback speed down to 25%
For streaming (on pc) this gets into a grey area, but there’s recording desktop audio and putting the output into a tool (eg. Audacity). Transcribe! is fantastic, but if all we need is to loop an audio file easily without downloading audio software something like Tune Transcriber will handle MP3s (and youtube) in the browser.
I wish I could find more songs I’m into on Songsterr. It’s the thing that’s kept me from jumping in, like there’s a shit ton of stuff on there, but everything I’ve genuinely stopped what I was doing and thought “hey I wonder if there’s bass tabs out there for this” , nowhere to be found.
They claim 1.3 million songs, so that seems to cover a lot of ground right there.
I mean if you want Polish Polka Hits, maybe it’s not your site.
It really does, but as an example, the very first thing I ever tried to look up on there was a Post Malone song and nada. And he has 62ish million listeners per month on Spotify, so if I’m searching one of my favorite bands, Arizona (yes, their name sucks to search, but I think I covered all my bases) that has only around 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, they don’t show up at all. Then there’s bands with 1-200k listeners like Sub-radio that there’s just no hope for ever, lol. I’ll probably end up subbing to it anyway because it obviously covers a shit ton of ground, like you said, I just been waffling on it because it seems like the real mainstream stuff has free resources out there for it, so it’s gonna come down to the features more than the catalog for me. I just need to familiarize myself with the features to decide if it’s worth it I suppose.
Most of what I listen to are pretty niche genres (a lot of shoegaze). None of it gets 200K+ streamsd a month except maybe Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.
It’s by no means perfect but Songster allows you to generate tabs off of Youtube videos using their AI tool. They’re at least good enough to get you going on a song most of the time. That feature alone makes it worth paying for imo. I’ve generated 150 - 200 songs with it at this point.
lmao
this is so funny
You could use Tonelib Jam for that:
For play/pause/rewind etc. you can use the wonderful M-VAVE Chocolate Plus
It’s cheap at Aliexpress.
The only thing you cannot do with Tonelib Jam is setting speed or loops via the Chocolate Plus. You need to do that directly in the Tonelib Jam software.
It’s a minor issue, in my opinion, and I’m sure you can get that to work too.
I use it all the time to learn songs, exactly like you described.
You can get great & free tabs (that are synced to included songs) here:
Song Master:
If you have a paid subscription on Songsterr you’ll be able to generate tabs from any YT vid using their own AI. This is no effort at all, you simply give the YT link (provided it’s not restricted in terms of copyright) and after around 10 minutes the song will be made available to you and you can publish it on Songsterr.
Thanks everybody, super helpful!
All righty. I was waiting for a post to mention Song Master Pro before I got to the end of the thread. I’ve got Songsterr and Transcribe!, too, but haven’t used them much since getting Song Master Pro. A superior piece of software, it is. 
Does Song Master Pro give you the bass tab too?
No, but I’m not looking for an app that picks the fingering for me. The Song Sheet (lead sheet) output from SMP is far superior to what Transcribe! provides.
