Your jazz vocabulary, organised

Every lick you transcribe and save in SlowBird becomes a note: a named, loopable passage pinned to its recording. The notes viewer puts all of them in front of you at once, every note from every track, as cards on one canvas. Months of transcribing turn into a collection you can actually see, search and play from.

Arrange it the way you think about it

Five ways, one click each: by tag, by soloist, by track, by name or by colour. Tags are yours to invent (ii-V, bebop, enclosures, turnarounds, whatever you call things), and a note can carry several, so a Parker phrase tagged “ii-V” and “bebop” sits in both groups. Switch to soloist and every player gets a box of their own.

Search the whole collection

The search looks at note names, tags, track titles and soloists. Type “Parker” and every Charlie Parker lick lights up wherever it lives; type “#ii-V” for every ii-V you have saved. Nothing disappears: what does not match fades back, so you keep your bearings in the whole collection.

Play it from the card

Click a card and the phrase plays, looped, at the speed you choose, without leaving the view. Double-click to open it in the player at exactly that spot. Right-click to recolour it, edit its name and tags, or save it as a track of its own.

Questions

What is the notes viewer?

A view of every note in your library at once: each saved passage is a card, grouped into boxes by tag, soloist, track, name or colour. Click a card to hear the phrase looped; double-click to open it in the player.

How do tags work?

A tag is any word you choose, like ii-V, bebop or turnarounds, added when you create or edit a note. A note can have as many as you like, and in the viewer it appears in each of its tag groups. Tags you have used before are offered as you type.

What does the search look at?

Note names, tags, track titles and soloists. Everything that matches stays lit and the rest fades back, so the whole collection stays in view while you narrow it down.

Can I see all my licks by one player?

Yes. Arrange by soloist to give every player their own group, or search a name such as Parker to light up every Charlie Parker phrase across all your tags.

It builds on notes, the named passages you save while you transcribe, and on seamless looping, so every card plays back cleanly.

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