Indispensible Online Music Tools, About 7 of Them
These are all great tools that you can use from your browser, and they are free. Go, enjoy, be creative!
guitaristhelp.com — They say “guitarist help”, but really these tools are useful for any musician. Chiefly of use are the tools for finding scales from lists of notes or chords, and the tool to find chords for given scales.
rhymer.com & thesaurus.reference.com — Your best friends in the lyrics department. I like rhymer particularly for the ability to choose the type of rhyme I’m looking for.
get-tuned.com — Online tuners for a variety of instruments such as the guitar, violin, banjo, mandolin, etc … It also includes articles on different methods of tuning.
findsounds.com — For when you want to add atmosphere to your recordings. I used it to find CB chirps to use in a song. You can specify format, sample rate, minimum size, resolution, and number of channels.
Monkey Machine — I’ve suggested this online drum machine before, but I’m bringing it up again now. It’s really great for practicing. It lets you edit drum patterns and tempo. Here’s what I use when offline.
webmetronome.com — If you just want a straight-up metronome then this is it. I love the simplicity of this metronome. No clutter, intuitive, easy!
noteflight.com — Browser based score editor with midi playback and export.
