Drum/Guitar Tabs In Rockband Style
I had a pretty productive Saturday.
After some tweaking this late afternoon I have it about 99% done..
All that is left is to add a leader into the songs (so it doesn’t start right away). You can get any TAB off the internet and sync it up with your mp3 file for the song. And tada… now you can use your elite rockband skills to play the real thing.
You have to manually edit the actual start and end seconds for the tabs [and fix the tabs since alot of them arent perfect matches for the CD version of the songs] — This is why on some songs there is a noticeable offset
This took me about a day to write (mostly Saturday), and then a late afternoon to find and edit the tab files so that it would read them.
I started with 21 Guns by Greenday as I debugged the program. Parts of the Tabs are perfect, but alot of them need quite a bit of manual editing. (I think the tabs were from the music video and not the CD)
Then I Did Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under the bridge) Mostly because my wife really wants to learn to play it.
Then I was thinking… well she actually wants to play it on guitar… 15 minutes later (with no editing of the source code, just the data/tab file {thats very cool if u know anything about coding 
}) – she can now use her elite rockband 2 skills to play the guitar… or at least practice till she can play it [I took out some of the fancy stuff in the tab till she gets the basics down]
And finally I did Weezer – Buddy Holly. It syncs up perfectly.
I’ve also done Lenny Kravitz… but the drum tabs I found were off quite..
Long story short… you can pick just about any song and from 15 minutes to an hour (depends on the quality of the tab file) have a tweaked tab file ready to play and practice rockband style.
This is really cool!
Wish I had this sort of thing when I was trying to learn guitar.
Obviously it’s a little bit ropey, but if you could perfect it, you really could have a good product.
Potentially an iPhone app too?
Nice one
Ok, pretty impressed with your software man! Nice stuff! Guitar Hero kicks ass, but it’s very cool to be able to play an actual instrument guitar hero style.
That is such a sickly awesome idea/implementation. For real, a viable product. Synch it up with itunes and like harmony central or something. Great job man.
Thx for the comments
Good Evening,
Will this software be made available to the public at anytime in the future ? Rockband got me started playing real drums. This would be awesome !!
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Hey!
I’ve just made a very similar thing using Flash. It looks like just guitar hero, and I have at least as many lanes as you do.
I’ve got 2 songs fully working, both Trivium songs (they are the first band I’ve found to keep perfect time!)
1 BIG problem I’m having though is that songs don’t sync up with the BPM.
Most songs vary VERY slightly as you go through the song, making them impossible to sync. Sometimes the BPM’s are slightly off too, so you set it at 120 say, and it’s too fast. So you try 119 and it’s too slow..!
Let me know if you carried on with this.