Riffstation Pro (Mac or Windows Download)

Back in my day, we had to learn songs the hard way, nowadays you younguns have it all handed to you on a gold rimmed silver plate garnished with diamonds !!!!

and yes,
stay off my lawn.

I've never heard of this before and wanted to see what sort of dark magic it did. Here's what I found:

* Dishwalla - "Counting Blue Cars" - One major error right off, but otherwise accurate.

* Pretenders - "Night In My Veins" - Major trainwreck with at least a third of the chords being wrong. Really fell apart towards the end, though to its credit, it understood it was in Am while most tabs only have it as A.

* Bob Mould - "Out of Your Life" - I've played this for over 25 years and what Riffstation delivered was so stunningly wrong for the first half; missing minors and half the chords. Then somewhere around the solo and last verse it suddenly got really accurate, picking up the many chords it missed earlier, though still goofing some. Very weird.

* Buckcherry - "Porno Star" - Completely faked out by the riffs and tries to apply chords (wrong ones) to those areas. Otherwise got most of it right.

* Damone - "Out Here All Night" - Pretty close overall. Another song with a riff that fakes out the chord detection sensors.

* Robert Palmer - "Simply Irresistible" - Pretty close overall. A couple of duff chords and the timing was off on some changes, but it works.

* The Outfield - "Your Love" - Spot on until the end where it gets some very weird ideas.

* Transvision Vamp - "Tell That Girl To Shut Up" - Mostly right though it misses some changes and then finds them elsewhere. (On passages where a chord changes per bar.)

* Watershed - "Black Concert T-Shirt" - 97% right

* Gin Blossoms - "Hey Jealousy" - Mostly right, but as before it will miss stuff in places where it gets it others. Also reads the D5 as D. Apparently the program is pretty limited in the complexity of chords detectable.

* Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silence" - Pretty good before becoming a complete trainwreck on the breakdown before the solo. Sort of pulls it together and then stumbles toward the end.

For the price (free), it's an interesting trick. Wouldn't pay for it, though considering the pathetic state of the tab scene (i.e. one wildly incorrect version gets copypastaed everywhere) it's better than nothing.

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