betabetaThe tab editor for bands
A fast tab editor for anything with strings. Write the part, sync with a demo, share one link. No account required to view. The tab follows along as the track plays.
Where it fits
Sure you can share a voice memo, a chunk of ASCII tab in a text message, or a full notation file. But each one catches part of the song and loses the rest. Rifflog sits between them.
The voice memo
Catches
The feel. Timing, dynamics, the way the chord actually rings.
Misses
The details. Your guitarist is asking what that second chord is while piecing it together.
e|-----------------------0--------| B|-2-------------------3--2-------| G|-2-2-------2-2-0---3----2-2-----| D|-2---2---2-2-2-0--------2---2---| A|-0-----0-0--------------0-----0-| E|-----------------3--------------|
The text tab
Catches
The fret positions. Free, universal, fits in a chat message.
Misses
Everything else. No timing, no audio, painful to write by hand.
The official notation file
Catches
All of it. Frets, timing, dynamics, multiple parts.
Misses
The afternoon you spent making it. And whether they have the app.
Tab structure good enough to read. Audio attached so it fills the gaps. Nothing to install.
For the songs that don't deserve a full notation file but won't survive a voice memo.
The loop
Set the notes, upload the reference audio, then sync them together. You can do this for multiple parts too.
One URL. Your collaborators don't need an account, they just open it. You decide if it's private, link-only, or open.
You'll all have a chance to review the parts and keep the momentum going. Make updates without sending out a whole new versions.
Inside the editor
Guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, banjo. Standard, drop D, DADGAD, open G, 4–6 string bass. Or type your own string names.
Stack guitar, bass, and rhythm in the same file. Share them together with one URL, or hide the bass part from the bassist's link.
Attach the demo. Each step is pinned to a position in the waveform. As the playhead moves through, the tab advances with it.
Share with named emails, a single link, or no one at all. Viewers don't need an account. You can revoke a link the moment the song changes.
Built for
— Bandmates
Share out your ideas and by practice everyone's ready to build on it. No PDFs, no screenshots, no 'can you re-export that with the bridge.'.
— Teachers & students
Send the exercise after the lesson, with the recording attached. They can replay it slowly all week. You can update it after class without re-emailing anything.
— Solo writers
Capture the riff at 1 AM before you forget it. Search by feel: 'the one in D, the open-string thing'. Find it again Saturday afternoon.
For the riffs that are too good to lose in a voice memo.