Musicnotes.com is a website launched in 1998 that has since provided 300,000 pieces of sheet music to more than 5 million customers worldwide. Its total downloads are over 25 million and it exceeded $27.5 million in revenue in 2014. Musicnotes has basically done for sheet music what iTunes has done for vinyl and what Uber has done for actually going outside again. And with the launch of its new app, the company takes the simplicity of playing music a step further. Available for both Android and iOS, the apps were created by employees of the company who are actual musicians. The app includes an audio mixer which allows the user to turn down a specific instrument or mute the vocals, allowing them to play/sing along. Just imagine it… you’re playing guitar and you decide that you want to play Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley (an oldie but a goodie). Once you download the song, you can take out the sound of the guitar so you can only hear what you play, accompanied by Mr. Marley’s vocals bellowing from the app.
The release is actually an overhaul of its old offering. Additional features include fully functional audio-visual playback and the ability to adjust the tempo of each song. As musicians around the world will attest, this technology has been highly sought after by professionals and newbies a like. And if you are worried that the interface is less than desirable, check out the demo below.
