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New features in the Practice section

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 28, 2022 · 2 comments

New: Change the stave width

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 30, 2022 · 2 comments

New: Customize playhead style and behavior

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 30, 2022 · 4 comments

New: Analytics for embed customers

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 26, 2022 · 2 comments

New: Auto-saved slice preferences

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 12, 2022 · 17 comments

Introducing Auto layout mode

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 14, 2022 · 10 comments

New: Make fine-grained pitch corrections

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 7, 2022 · 8 comments

New: Piano pedaling support in our editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 24, 2022 · 1 comment

Introducing speed training

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 10, 2022 · 6 comments

Introducing practice lists

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 19, 2022 · 25 comments

New features and fixes, Jan. 12

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 12, 2022 · 2 comments

Native support for drum sticking

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 12, 2022 · 2 comments

Introducing focus mode

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 11, 2021 · 11 comments

New loop design

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 7, 2021 · 1 comment

Introducing nonsequential syncpoints

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 16, 2021 · 7 comments

New features and fixes, July 22

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 22, 2021 · 1 comment

New: Share privately with individual people

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 22, 2021

New: Fretboard interface for editing tab on tablets

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 24, 2021 · 4 comments

New: Create/edit sheet music on your tablet

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 10, 2021 · 6 comments

Faster and easier slice-in-course management

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 27, 2021

New: Related slices for channel posts

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 27, 2021 · 2 comments

Introducing instrument pages

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 13, 2021

New: Comment threads on courses

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 13, 2021

New features and fixes, May 6

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 6, 2021 · 8 comments

Introducing enhanced slowdown and perfect looping

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 25, 2021 · 3 comments

New: Change note colors in your music

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 9, 2021 · 8 comments

Bookmarking now available on every slice

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 25, 2021 · 3 comments

A better Soundslice experience on small screens

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 4, 2021 · 2 comments

Introducing the visual trombone and trumpet

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 14, 2021 · 5 comments

Top community slices of 2020

Posted by Corey Richardson on December 22, 2020

New features and fixes, Dec. 10

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 10, 2020 · 3 comments

Introducing Paged layout (and line breaks)

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 10, 2020 · 4 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, December 3

Posted by Corey Richardson on December 3, 2020

Black Friday sale

Posted by Corey Richardson on November 26, 2020

Featured transcriber: Rebecca Cline

Posted by Corey Richardson on November 19, 2020

New features, Nov. 12

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 12, 2020 · 7 comments

New features, Nov. 5

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 5, 2020 · 3 comments

New features and fixes, Oct. 22

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 22, 2020 · 4 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, October 15

Posted by Corey Richardson on October 15, 2020

New features and fixes, Oct. 15

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 15, 2020 · 9 comments

Introducing our navigation redesign

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 23, 2020 · 7 comments

Introducing our new Help section

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 11, 2020 · 6 comments

More money for artists in the Soundslice store

Posted by Corey Richardson on September 3, 2020 · 7 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, August 2o

Posted by Corey Richardson on August 20, 2020

New: Quickly toggle our editor off

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 20, 2020 · 4 comments

New: Automatically display pitch names

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 17, 2020 · 4 comments

Nicer scrolling on smartphones and tablets

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 11, 2020 · 1 comment

New: Download your students’ performances

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 10, 2020 · 4 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, August 6

Posted by Corey Richardson on August 6, 2020

Big notation editor interface improvements

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 6, 2020 · 8 comments

New: Bulk upload notation files

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 23, 2020 · 2 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, July 22

Posted by Corey Richardson on July 22, 2020

How to put finishing touches on for-sale courses

Posted by Corey Richardson on July 16, 2020

Various editor and player improvements, July 16

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 16, 2020 · 2 comments

Improvements and fixes to tab with capo and shifted tunings

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 16, 2020

New courses from the Soundslice community, July 2

Posted by Corey Richardson on July 2, 2020

Small site improvements, July 2

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 2, 2020 · 3 comments

New slice management features, June 25

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 25, 2020 · 7 comments

Featured transcriber: Marco Zammuto

Posted by Corey Richardson on June 18, 2020

New features and fixes, June 18

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 18, 2020 · 2 comments

New: Give your Soundslice channel an About section

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 11, 2020

Better notation spacing for piano music

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 11, 2020

New: Solo a track with a single click

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 10, 2020 · 2 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, June 2020

Posted by Corey Richardson on June 4, 2020

Better lyrics and chord entry

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 4, 2020 · 11 comments

How teachers are using Soundslice during the pandemic, Part 2

Posted by Corey Richardson on May 28, 2020

New editor features, May 28

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 28, 2020 · 5 comments

New courses from the Soundslice community, May 2020

Posted by Corey Richardson on May 21, 2020

Introducing our notation editor redesign

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 11, 2020 · 18 comments

How teachers are using Soundslice during the pandemic, Part 1

Posted by Corey Richardson on April 30, 2020 · 2 comments

Recent transcription covers

Posted by Corey Richardson on April 16, 2020 · 1 comment

Help translate our site into your language

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 16, 2020 · 2 comments

‘Wanna explain that?’ with Andy Wood

Posted by Corey Richardson on April 9, 2020

Announcing ‘performances’

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 9, 2020 · 7 comments

New editor features, April 2

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 2, 2020 · 8 comments

Quick licks: April 1 through the years

Posted by Corey Richardson on April 1, 2020

More control over text formatting

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 26, 2020 · 4 comments

New: Quickly toggle fingerings display

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 25, 2020 · 2 comments

Soundslice ‘talent show’ livestream recap

Posted by Corey Richardson on March 19, 2020 · 1 comment

Quick licks: Playing ‘outside’ the blues with Shawn Tubbs

Posted by Corey Richardson on March 12, 2020

Improvements to notation display

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 12, 2020

Featured transcriber: Fred Greene

Posted by Corey Richardson on March 5, 2020 · 1 comment

New: Create better music layout with ‘passages’

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 2, 2020 · 6 comments

Various features and fixes, Feb. 27

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 27, 2020 · 1 comment

Quick licks: Tora Dahle Aagård

Posted by Corey Richardson on February 25, 2020

Improvements to slides in tablature

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 24, 2020

Announcing genre pages

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 20, 2020 · 2 comments

Featured transcriber: Lars Petzold-Turcanu

Posted by Corey Richardson on February 18, 2020 · 3 comments

Improvements to multiple-voice editing

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 14, 2020 · 1 comment

Quick licks: Selections from Anomalie’s Métropole Part II

Posted by Corey Richardson on February 12, 2020

Quick licks: 2019 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz finalists

Posted by Corey Richardson on February 4, 2020

New: Edit hairpins in our notation editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 3, 2020 · 1 comment

Quick licks: Chris Payton

Posted by Corey Richardson on January 28, 2020

Various notation and editor improvements

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 27, 2020 · 3 comments

Featured transcriber: Matt Sears

Posted by Corey Richardson on January 21, 2020

New: Embed channel posts, add strum directions and more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 17, 2019 · 3 comments

Simpler file attachments in courses

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 27, 2019

Introducing threaded comments

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 15, 2019

New: audio intro/outro sections

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 12, 2019 · 3 comments

New metronome button, UI improvements and much more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 1, 2019

Goodbye, ‘track controls’

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 18, 2019

Various improvements, Sept. 2

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 2, 2019

Gifting now available in our store

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 15, 2019

Faster workflow for embedding slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 8, 2019 · 1 comment

New design for our syncpoint editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 7, 2019 · 1 comment

Introducing the new Soundslice player

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 1, 2019

New text formatting options

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 25, 2019

New: Copy notation across slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 26, 2019

An easier way to add slices to courses

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 7, 2019 · 2 comments

Customize bar numbering in your slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 5, 2019

An easier way to manage your recordings

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 20, 2019

New URL format for Soundslice embeds

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 8, 2019

New options for capo and shifted guitar tunings

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 25, 2019

New syncpoint editor how-to videos

Posted by Corey Richardson on April 24, 2019

Various new features, April 3

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 3, 2019

Use Soundslice in multiple languages

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 28, 2019

New: Left-handed fretboard visualization

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 21, 2019 · 1 comment

New: Change playback speed using BPM

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 22, 2019

Introducing the loop button

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 7, 2019 · 5 comments

Prettier hammer-ons and pull-offs

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 11, 2019 · 4 comments

New: Support for cautionary accidentals

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 9, 2019

Changes to setting default visibility

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 24, 2018 · 3 comments

New: Customize your keyboard shortcuts

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 20, 2018 · 5 comments

Introducing our new Community page

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 9, 2018

New: Create slash mark notation

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 25, 2018 · 5 comments

New: ‘Expand repeats’ automatically unfolds repeated music

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 15, 2018

Optionally disable email notifications for your channel posts

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 10, 2018

New: Copy syncpoints across slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 9, 2018

Free embedding, plus easier licensing signup

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 28, 2018

Big improvements for drum notation

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 25, 2018 · 5 comments

Simpler, clearer slice posting and sharing

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 7, 2018

New: Chord chart view with chord diagrams

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 4, 2018

New ‘Suggestions’ page

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 28, 2018

An easier way to copy syncpoints

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 7, 2018

New: ‘Drag all’ in syncpoint editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 2, 2018

Sitewide search engine!

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 27, 2018

New feature: set your account’s display name

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 13, 2018

New: resize videos when they’re above notation

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 5, 2018

New feature: duplicate your slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 8, 2018 · 1 comment

Brush/strumming arrows in our notation editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 8, 2018

New notation support: plop, scoop, doit and fall

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 5, 2018

Reorder tracks in our notation editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 31, 2018

New names for Soundslice plans

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 30, 2018

Smarter auto-scrolling in our notation editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 14, 2018 · 3 comments

Default playhead scrolling mode changed

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 10, 2018

New features and fixes, May 8

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 8, 2018

New: Access your version history

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 30, 2018

New notation feature: Dashed barlines

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 19, 2018

New: Rests in synceditor guide notes

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 16, 2018

New track editing features in our notation editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 11, 2018

Various features and fixes, April 6

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 6, 2018

Improving how courses are organized

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 3, 2018

Better synth playback for ghost/accented notes

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 28, 2018

Better Soundslice streaming video

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 26, 2018

Daily digest emails for people you follow

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 8, 2018

YouTube now supports 25 percent speed

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 7, 2018 · 1 comment

Set tuning, capo, synth sound and transposition in our editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 1, 2018

Better display of bar commentary text

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 1, 2018

Easier process for creating slices and adding recordings

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 26, 2018 · 1 comment

New: Word-wrapped text over notation

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 20, 2018

New feature: Fine-tuned cropping of audio and video

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 16, 2018

Player improvement: toggle video position

Posted by Edward O’Riordan on February 14, 2018

Improvements to our notation editor’s tab note entry

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 9, 2018

New notation feature: Small noteheads

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 6, 2018 · 3 comments

Introducing Soundslice Channels

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 23, 2018 · 2 comments

Introducing Amateur accounts

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 23, 2018

Introducing comments and covers

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 23, 2018

Introducing the Soundslice notation/tab editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 23, 2018 · 5 comments

Scores are now called slices

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 21, 2018

Job: Product Designer at Soundslice

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 18, 2017

New features for editing and embedding Soundslice scores

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 31, 2017

New speed-changing interface, organization accounts and more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 28, 2017

Introducing horizontal view and advanced settings

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 2, 2017 · 2 comments

New features and fixes, Jan. 16

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 16, 2017 · 2 comments

New: Use Soundslice video tools without music notation

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 21, 2016

Introducing the Mixer

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 17, 2016

Improved navigation and changes to the store

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 10, 2016

New features and fixes, Oct. 19

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 19, 2016

Attach extra files to Soundslice scores

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 2, 2016

New feature: Video flipping

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 19, 2016 · 1 comment

Video subtitle support

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 17, 2016

Introducing the visual violin

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 8, 2016

New features and fixes, July 21

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 21, 2016

New features and fixes, May 3

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 3, 2016

Folders in the Soundslice score manager (finally!)

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 6, 2016

Tips on making Soundslice-friendly videos

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 25, 2016

Introducing Soundslice Licks

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 21, 2016

Vimeo and Brightcove video integration, plus faster uploading

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 22, 2016

New features and fixes, Feb. 9

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 9, 2016

Much easier notation-audio syncing

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 3, 2016

Introducing Soundslice offline mode

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 19, 2016 · 22 comments

New: smooth scrolling during playback

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on January 13, 2016 · 2 comments

How to represent non-music in your Soundslice score

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 16, 2015 · 1 comment

New features and fixes, Nov. 9

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 9, 2015

Stemmed tablature

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 30, 2015

Introducing Soundslice Lessons

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 21, 2015

Print version looks good now

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 14, 2015 · 4 comments

Better touch device support

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 8, 2015

New chord-chart view (and more)

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 30, 2015 · 4 comments

New features and fixes, Sept. 16

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 16, 2015

Count-in before playback

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 25, 2015 · 1 comment

New features (and free exercises!) for pianists

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on August 19, 2015 · 2 comments

New ways to customize the Soundslice embed, and more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 7, 2015

Introducing our free MusicXML viewer

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on June 24, 2015

Percussion support

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on May 21, 2015 · 2 comments

New syncpoint editor shortcut and more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 6, 2015

New syncpoint editor

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 25, 2015 · 3 comments

Full-screen mode and more

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 16, 2015 · 5 comments

New partners, features and fixes, March 6

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 6, 2015

New features and fixes, Feb. 25

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 25, 2015

New Soundslice player API

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 16, 2015

Introducing Soundslice For Teachers

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 2, 2015

New on Pitch Perfect: Five guitar waltz etudes

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 8, 2014

Lyrics and multiple videos

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on December 1, 2014 · 5 comments

Transposing notation, tab and chords

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 3, 2014 · 1 comment

New animated guitar fretboard

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on October 2, 2014

Loren and Mark interactive tab with multitracks

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 21, 2014

Transposing instruments

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 8, 2014

Better-looking note ties

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 2, 2014 · 1 comment