A score for your band. A tab for your guitar.

Two apps that listen to a recording and write down what was played. Below, each one is doing it, on a real recording.

Brasscribe

Bar 1, beat 1
A real recording: two trumpets, a baritone and a tuba playing the opening of Bach's Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier, from ChoraleBricks (CC BY 4.0). Brasscribe wrote the parts, question marks included. Play gives you the recording, or the notes it wrote.

Record a rehearsal or open a file. Brasscribe writes a part for every player in your brass band, marks the notes it wasn't sure of, and plays along while you practise.

See Brasscribe Download

Fretscribe

Bar 1, beat 1
A real recording: a guitarist picking the chords of Pachelbel's Canon, from GuitarSet (CC BY 4.0). Fretscribe wrote the tab, question marks included. Play gives you the recording, or the notes it wrote.

Play a riff or open a recording. Fretscribe writes it down as tab for your instrument and your tuning, and plays the recording along while you practise.

See Fretscribe Download

Which one is for you?

Both are free, both run on Android, iPhone and iPad, Mac and Windows, and you can have both: they share the same helper on your computer.

Your phone asks. Your computer listens.

Picking single notes out of a recording is heavy work, more than a phone should do on a bus. So the apps share one helper: Bandroom, a free program on your own Mac or PC.

Bandroom on the computer
Does the listening and the writing: every band score and every tab, today. One Bandroom serves both apps and every phone you connect.
The app on your phone
Records, opens files, shows the score or the tab and plays along with you. Connect it once; after that it finds the computer by itself.
Private and local
Your recording never leaves your own network: it goes from your phone to your own computer and nowhere else. The first time Bandroom starts it needs the internet, to download what it needs to listen (about 10 GB). For Brasscribe's band scores it also needs a free account where the listening model is downloaded; the guide shows how.
Your own network The internet: nothing is sent The app on your phone records, shows, plays along recording score or tab Bandroom on your computer listens and writes it down

Get Bandroom

For a Mac from 2020 or later or a Windows 11 PC. It runs quietly in the background, and the first time it starts it downloads about 10 GB. Your computer will warn you the first time; the guides show how to get past it.

Bandroom for Mac Bandroom for Windows

Setting it up and connecting a phone is in Brasscribe's guide and Fretscribe's guide.