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Chord reading website chordu.com
Clive Williams:
This came up in my facebook feed today; I think this is really rather neat. This site works out the chords for videos you give it; quite how I'm not at all certain. I'm guessing it looks for the lowest notes it can find in the sound mix. For example:
https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-batiska-played-by-clive-williams-on-melodeon-id_GVGmPsHz1YQ
The chords are broadly right - that's pretty much exactly what I'm playing. It's missed a few (but not all) passing chords and I think I saw a modal E minor chord represented as E major, but other than that, it's pretty amazing really. It works off youtube videos it's indexed, so try it on your favourite Andy Cutting/DTN/Anahata videos and see how you get on!
Chris Brimley:
That is pretty amazing, Clive, and I would think it could be pretty useful for box-players learning a tune. As you say, it wasn't always right, but it's got great potential - I would see it as guiding players to the most appropriate pushes and pulls, when learning a tune, which is to me the most fundamental thing to get right, when learning to play a new tune. Interesting that it gives you guitar chords as its reference - OK for me and many others, but presumably keyboard players could use a different set of visual clues. I assume that it has some sort of algorithm that sets how long a given accompaniment is going to be played for - so it doesn't try to match each combination of notes you're playing to separate chords. (I've sometimes seen scores written out where guitar chords have been added assuming the guitarist plays every note combination, which no one in their right mind would try to do.)
Gandy:
I think I must be missing something, how is that web page actually supposed to work? When I open the link there's what looks like a play button at the bottom but that doesn't do anything. And a small window showing the original Youtube video, when you click on the play button there it opens Youtube in a new windows. So it doesn't seem to be working for me, maybe picky about browsers?
Tone Dumb Greg:
--- Quote from: Gandy on August 24, 2018, 07:26:40 PM ---I think I must be missing something, how is that web page actually supposed to work? When I open the link there's what looks like a play button at the bottom but that doesn't do anything. And a small window showing the original Youtube video, when you click on the play button there it opens Youtube in a new windows. So it doesn't seem to be working for me, maybe picky about browsers?
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I pasted a youtube address into the search box top right and it gave me the chords. There's another site that gives you the chords live if you paste a link into it, but I can't remember where.
Gandy:
Cheers, so to confirm you just see a static screen with the chords listed? I thought (hoped) it would have shown the chords in time with hearing the tune. What I see is first this screen, then a couple of seconds later the second screen, but it's completely static.
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