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Backing tracks

Put the actual song under your chart: an audio file or a YouTube video.

Add the song

Any chart can carry the actual record under it. Click Add track in the bar at the bottom of the page and choose an audio file or paste a YouTube link. The chip in the bar names what’s attached; its menu is where you replace it. A score holds one backing track.

With a YouTube backing, the video plays at small size over the sheet: you read the chart, the record plays, and both land in your take.

Play along

Play and pause with Space, scrub the timeline, set the music’s volume against your instrument.

• ·Speed. Slow the song down without changing its pitch, 0.5× to 1.5×, and work back up as the passage comes together.
• ·Loop. Set A and B at the playhead and the music repeats between them: the hard-bars tool. The loop is for the moment, it clears when you leave the score.

Recording with a backing

Hit record and the music starts with your take, after the count-in, if you’ve set one. The take keeps the song exactly as you heard it: record at 75% speed and you get an honest take at 75%.

Web tabs are their own players

Songsterr and Ultimate Guitar pages keep their own play controls, looping, and speed. Afinar doesn’t stack a second set on top. Speed and loop above are for the backing tracks you attach to your own charts.