At the playhead
Detected- Bar
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- Function
- Listen first
- Chord
- Listen first
- Notes in bar
- Listen first
About this guide
Open a recording, or load a practice map exported from Piece Lab on the Mac.
Listen · understand · make it yours
Reopen its recording to listen and transpose.
Audio
Open a recording, or load a practice map exported from Piece Lab on the Mac.
Waveform: click to listen · Ruler: drag to loop · Notes and chords: double-click to edit
For a steady recording without a detected grid. Pause at the first downbeat, enter the tempo, then place beat one. This replaces the current grid; tempo changes need the Mac Beat Lab.
Compare overlapping notes with the chord guide. A bar’s pitch collection is not necessarily a single voicing.
An eight-second window around the playhead. Click a note to pause and inspect. Separate stems and detect notes in the Mac app, then load its exported map here.
Press M while playing, or double-click the top rail. Drag a pin to move it.
Separated on your Mac and exported with the bundle. Mute or solo a part to hear what it is really doing; the mix follows the same loops and speed.
Click one to loop it, double-click to rename. Add a section at the playhead, or drag the seam between two on the timeline — every edge snaps to a bar line.
YOUR PRIVATE PRACTICE ROOM
Loop the bar that keeps collapsing. Slow it down without dropping the key, or change the key without touching the tempo. Read the chords, mark what you are learning, and keep the artist's name attached.