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Work · December 6, 2013

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RiffBank – A reverse guitar tab search engine

Little side project from the past few months indexing ascii guitar tab sections into pseudo-language "words" (notes, chords) and "sentences" (riffs) that can be queried and indexed with ElasticSearch (Apache Lucene).

RiffBank – A reverse guitar tab search engine launched on December 6, 2013 with 83 votes, #161 of 927 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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RiffBank is a reverse search engine for guitar tabs that lets users find riffs by their musical content rather than song or artist names. It indexes ASCII guitar tab sections as searchable units, converting notes and chords into a pseudo-language that can be queried using ElasticSearch. The tool is designed for guitarists who remember how a riff sounds or looks but not its source, making it useful for discovering songs and learning new material.

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