Point it towards a good quality version of the song on YouTube and let it go to work. I tried it with a song I’ve been wanting to play but could never find the tabs and it put out a pretty darn passable (to my ear) transcription of everything.
There are some areas where it’s inexplicably shifting between 5th and 6th fret to open and 1st but that can be fixed manually.
I’m looking at it the same way I look at the various AI programming tools that I use: it gives you a decent enough start to the point where you can take it and polish it from there.
I said this before that I have mixed feelings as it’s hit and or miss. It’s depends on what you are after. If you want to be in a ballpark it’s not bad.
I’ve done the same song transcription and there’s no comparison it took the AI 5 hours but took me 2 days for notation and 6 days to convert to tabs, to my defense mine is dead on accurate,
Is this thread a shill by songsterr?
Or has there been a change to songsterr to be able to call it new?
I also found it to be hit and miss, with sometimes much missing or different than some really good players on yt.
It seems that its often right or rightish, but it has sucked to learn a song to find out its not the same as the good yt players.
I use it every day and will continue using it but it would be nice if it was upgraded.
I’ve been using songsterr for 7 months so recently means before that I’m assuming you mean?
I must then stick by my last post as mostly hit with some miss…
The ballpark thing is a really good point. Most of the songs I cover are songs that I’ve listened to for years. I’m not good enough yet to put a song together by ear, so getting me in the ballpark let’s me get the meat of a song down but I am good enough (sometimes) to tell myself that the AI tab is wrong and be able to correct it.
The other thing the AI does that I correct pretty often is it tends to move up the fretboard horizontally rather than use the other strings. For example, I could be playing a part down in the 2 - 4 fret range, the AI will tend to move up to the 7 - 9 fret on the same string, rather than just play the 2 - 4 frets on the next higher string.
Depending on the song this actually makes sense - for example this is a better method for pedals and drones, especially if bouncing back to open strings. You’ll notice Hooky does this all the time, as a prime example.
Even if it’s not perfect, having a rough draft to tweak is a huge time-saver. The fret shifts are a little weird, but nothing a bit of manual fixing can’t handle. Definitely seems like a good way to get started on songs that don’t have tabs floating around
I don’t know who you’re thinking of as good YouTube players, but for example Julia plays groove adds ornaments that aren’t in the studio version of songs she covers. The YouTuber version doesn’t need to match the original artist version.
I tried 2 songs: White Zombie - Warp Asylum
I’d say: pretty decent, great starting point where you can fix the discrepancies yourself, and what the AI did even works if you don’t mind the bassline isn’t quite like the original. The AI version works for the song.
For me, I would need to fix those discrepancies, because that is a song I listened to all the time for more than 20 years. My brain can’t cope with hearing it differently right now.
Puscifer - Bedlamite
Some of the trickier parts are way off. But still a good starting point.
This is a song where I couldn’t find a transcription anywhere else.
So kinda like all the KI stuff right now: Helps getting started, often still needs tweaking. You won’t get anything finished out of it.
For me, it helps quite a lot. For me creating a transcription is a very daunting task, where I tend to not start at all. The AI helps a lot in getting started and get into the ballpark.
