Capo

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

7 followers

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

7 followers

Using the songs in your music collection, Capo guesses the beats, chords, and key of songs to help you break them down to their individual parts. Capo’s unique technology helps you to learn your favorites quickly as you improve your ear along the way.

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Launch tags:

iOS•Music•Education

Launch Team

Chris Liscio

Capo

Maker

Capo first launched for the Mac in 2009, and has been continuously evolving ever since! It's now available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users with all sorts of cutting-edge technology to help you learn songs faster, all on your own! What kind of technology? Fancy signal processing algorithms, machine learning & (GPU-accelerated!) neural network processing, and all the stuff that fills many of my days with all sorts of fun research and prototyping to create a useful tool that helps musicians do what they love most—learning new music! The free version that you get from the App Store is *extremely permissive*, and has no calendar time limit on its trial. Most folks can get a ton of utility out of Capo without ever paying for it, but those that choose to do so will be supporting an indie developer that's committed to keep this product moving forwards for (hopefully!) decades to come. I think that Capo should be every musician's go-to app for grabbing a DRM-free song from their music collection, getting an idea of the chords in the recording, and spending the time and effort to understand and nail your favorite tunes! So please, help me spread the word about this fantastic, capable, and mature product that should be on nearly every musician's Mac, iPhone, and iPad!

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4yr ago

Vladimir Demchuk

Super! I love to sing, but I can't. I hope to learn

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4yr ago

Chris Liscio

Capo

Maker

@vladimir_demchuk Vocal teachers and singers *love* Capo because it's so easy to change songs to a different key to better match the range of their voice. Try a song you like pitched down a few semitones, and see if that doesn't make it more comfortable for you! (Believe it or not, *many* of the top musical acts perform their own songs transposed down to a lower key when they're not feeling well, they want to avoid damage when it's too cold, or there are a lot of shows stacked closely together. It's not cheating, I promise! 😀)

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4yr ago

Vladimir Demchuk

@liscio thank you for advice. I'll use it

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4yr ago

Winston Zhao

So cool! It's hard to find tabs for random songs I like. Thanks!

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4yr ago

Chris Liscio

Capo

Maker

@winston_fim This, combined with the fact that *many* tabs you find online are often inaccurate, or lack important performance details, are just some of the reasons I built (and regularly use) the app! Even when I do have official sheet music or tabs to work with, it's extremely helpful to have a tool that lets me listen carefully to a recording to help me decode what's written on the sheet when it's not immediately clear.

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4yr ago

Winston Zhao

@liscio I couldn't agree more! Can it handle some crazy riffs yet?

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4yr ago

Chris Liscio

Capo

Maker

@winston_fim It depends what you mean by "handle". :) Because this is a tool that was designed primarily for self-directed learning "by ear", the only limitation is your persistence in working through the tricky stuff. Here's an example of using Capo's various tools to work through a fast bass solo:

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4yr ago

Capo

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

Capo

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music

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