I’ll have to go through some beat collections, starting with what we have for the BB, when set at 97 BPM.

That’s the next step, and where I have to drop this for right now. Next, see if you can find a drum beat you already have, that when played at 97 BPM gets you the feel you want.

Eventually, we are going to merge these into one track, but for now we want two tracks. Set up your Sonar Home Studio with two midi tracks. Go there, enter the artist name and song title, and you’ll get a BPM and key, also a Spotify link to the song. But, if you can live with getting real close, we can look at how to do that.įirst thing, get the key and BPM.

It’s not cheap you’d be paying for time, like 25 to 30 pounds sterling per song. For the record, however, if you want note for note midi transcriptions, there are services that do that. We’re gonna get something that’s pretty good and gets us close enough to what we need to play the song. We’re not going to end up with a note for note perfect version. Let’s start with Rockin’ Daddy, and I’ll show you the process I would use. The Marco DiMaggio one is more of a modern hip-hop based track, right? Or do I have the wrong thing? For songs like that, there is a program called Riffstation that I use to get basic chord structure. Both those are very straight forward and follow basic blues progressions, for the most part. The desktop app allows you to load any song from your music collection to detect the chords, plus giving you the ability to slow down and pitch shift the music as well as isolate or mute the guitar.Rockin’ Daddy and the Guild demo should be pretty easy to work up. The company’s Riffstation app is listed as the “ pro edition“, available for Mac and PC. If the chords are not available for a particular song, you can click a button to have the software generate them. The Play web app is free, and you can create an account to save your favorites to a song book. But to be fair, this is clearly a beta product and the company says the “algorithm detects major, minor and 7th triads with about 85% accuracy in typical rock/pop music.” They say they have plans to allow users to edit chords in the future.Īs an example of the software in action, check out The Beatles’ “ Don’t Let Me Down“. Riffstation says they’ve developed “an automatic chord recognition algorithm to ‘listen’ to the music and figure out the chords for you.” In many of the songs I’ve reviewed, there were errors. (The app supports guitar, ukulele (!) and piano). And while bass isn’t listed in the app, following the guitar chords should be suitable for most songs. The software has a super clean and simple interface, which shows promise.

Riffstation for bass