Prompter & Songbook
Street Musician
Play. Sing. Never touch your phone.
Street Musician is a prompter and songbook for people who play and sing: a teleprompter for your lyrics and chords that listens to you and scrolls the sheet by itself. This page is a chord sheet too, and it behaves like the app. In the app you sing and it scrolls. Here you scroll and it pretends you are singing.
[Intro] the sheet coasts
Phone on the stand. Hands on the guitar. That is the whole setup.
[Verse 1] the sheet follows
You bring your own song, paste the sheet in,
or share a link and it pulls the words and chords.
Every chord is a chip you can tap to change,
transpose and capo are one tap each.
Your songs, played your way. You bring the sheets.
[Chorus] the sheet follows
Sing, and the sheet follows.
Sing faster, it keeps up.
No more scrolling, no more stopping,
just keep strumming.
The last two lines are from our jingle. We are quite proud of the jingle.
[Spoken] the sheet waits
Good evening. This next one is about a phone that finally minds its own business.
Talk to the audience as long as you like. The sheet waits until you sing again.
Tell the long version of the story. Nothing scrolls away.
[Verse 2] the sheet follows
It listens on the phone and nowhere else,
no network needed, airplane mode is fine.
Nothing you sing is recorded, stored or sent,
and the words and chords are always shown together.
Works in a cellar bar with no signal. Possibly better.
[Solo] the sheet coasts
Play your solo. The sheet coasts at your pace and catches you at the next line.
Eight bars. Sixteen. Take the scenic route.
[Verse 3] the sheet follows
Every run teaches it your version of the song,
your timing, your solos, where you change the words.
A song goes from New to Learning to Locked in,
and a swipe or a tap on a line always wins.
Go on, tap any line on this page. The chip up top will say Manual.
[Bridge] the sheet follows
Five looks for five kinds of room,
a setlist that offers you the next song,
one profile for every band you play in,
and a friend with the Remote can turn the page for you.
Try the five looks
Each look is a colour theme with its own way of scrolling. Any of them can be forced dark for the stage.
This page is a demonstration drawn for the web, not a recording of the app.
Street Musician Remote
A second app, and that one is free. A friend nearby takes over the scrolling from their own phone over Bluetooth. You pair with a four digit room code. No internet.
[Verse 4] the sheet follows
Voice packs in English, German, Spanish, French and Mandarin,
downloaded once and kept on the phone.
A backup, if you want one, goes to your own Google Drive,
and a calm little streak that never nags.
Ten levels, from Open Mic to Legend. No red badges. No guilt.
The daily box
Once a day the app hands you a quote or a practice tip. Today on this page:
Practise the chord change you stumble on, not the whole song.
[Outro] the sheet follows
Everything is open for three days,
then one plan covers the whole app:
monthly, yearly, or once for a lifetime.
Coming to Google Play and the App Store.
Still in development, version 0.54.2. No date yet, and we will not guess one.
[End of song]
In a setlist, the end of one song offers the next. So:
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