Learn how to play your favorite songs with Capo
Tired of using other people's lame tablature to learn how to play your favorite songs, if you can even find a tab at all? Would you rather just figure out the music yourself? Well then, Capo is the Mac app for you. Drop an audio file from hard drive into it, and it will slow down the music so you can figure out how to play it. Everything takes place with one simple, beautiful window.
Capo has a lot of other neat tricks that make learning a song easier. One of the best features is looping a selected part of the song, so you can focus in on the bits you're having trouble with. Playback speed and pitch are adjustable, and you can drop handy markers for verses, choruses and the bridge, so you don't have to scroll through the song to find the part you're looking for. Sure, it's a tool that's designed to do one thing, but it does that one thing extremely well.
Capo has a lot of other neat tricks that make learning a song easier. One of the best features is looping a selected part of the song, so you can focus in on the bits you're having trouble with. Playback speed and pitch are adjustable, and you can drop handy markers for verses, choruses and the bridge, so you don't have to scroll through the song to find the part you're looking for. Sure, it's a tool that's designed to do one thing, but it does that one thing extremely well.













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Subscribe to commentsTom JApr 22nd 2009 9:55AM
Anything similar available for windows?
DemoApr 22nd 2009 1:46PM
Yes, I also am curious if there is program like this for Windows - seems very handy.
ohsnizzleApr 22nd 2009 3:17PM
windows users can use audacity. not as easy, but it will do the trick.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
IanApr 23rd 2009 10:43AM
Better yet, use Best Practice, an open source time stretching player. Not as good looking but easy and free: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/
Also, there is FineTunes on the mac, witch I personally purchased and am enjoying. It's only $20 and it measures up to capo. IMHO, capo is too expensive even at introductory price of $40...
http://homepage.mac.com/seishu/ssworks/finetunes/finetunes.html
Ian
DougApr 23rd 2009 1:10PM
If you're on a Mac, you should just use Vox.
http://www.voxapp.net/
It's free, has support for most codecs, and has support for time stretching. It has a bunch of other great features, and it's good looking. Why pay for something that doesn't do as much?