Any song you own, turned into a bass lesson you can play.

BassRack separates the bass with AI, transcribes it into a playable chart and listens to your real bass while you play along. Every note scored, at your speed, at your level.

Runs in your browser. Your library stays on your device.

An electric bass with "BassRack" on the headstock.
How it works

From a song to a scored practice session

Processing happens once per song. After that, opening it is instant.

  1. 01

    Bring a song

    Drop an audio file you own into the cassette deck (mp3, wav, flac and more). With the free, optional tuner helper you can also bring songs in from a link. Use only audio you own or have the right to use.

  2. 02

    The bass is separated

    An AI separation model splits the mix into a bass-only track and a backing track without the bass. Two more models separate the bass again so they can vote later.

  3. 03

    The bass line is transcribed

    Pitch is read every 10 ms, each pluck is found by its attack, and notes snap to the beat grid. String and fret are chosen to keep your hand moving as little as possible.

  4. 04

    A note judge checks every note

    A small learned model decides, note by note, whether each note is real or a phantom. Notes it is unsure about are marked as doubtful, and you can approve or remove each one.

  5. 05

    The highway shows what to play

    Notes travel toward you on four lanes, one color per string, with fret numbers and optional note names. Pick Easy, Medium or Full.

  6. 06

    You play and get scored

    Your bass is detected live in the browser. Every note is judged Perfect, Good or Miss, with streaks, stars and personal bests.

Features

Built for practicing, not just watching

Import

A tuner and a tape deck

Songs come in through a hi-fi rack. Insert your tape: drop your own audio file into the cassette deck and watch the counter run while it is processed. The tuner takes a link from many sites whenever the free, optional tuner helper is running.

  • Cassette deck for your own files
  • Tuner for links, with the free optional helper, on every plan
The import rack: a link tuner and a cassette deck
Library

Your songs, as cassettes

Every song becomes a cassette on a mixed shelf of colored and clear shells, with its cover, stars and personal best. Hover a cassette to hear a short preview of the song, then press Play, Practice or Listen.

  • Hover preview of every song
  • Search by title or artist
  • Edit the chart or change the cover from the menu
Song library: a shelf of cassettes in different colors under the import rack
Play

Highway and scoring

Perfect within 50 ms, Good within 100 ms, measured in real time so slowing down is not cheating. Streaks raise a x1 to x4 multiplier, stars land at 50, 65, 80, 90 and 97% accuracy, and personal bests are kept per song, speed and level.

  • Play, Practice and Listen modes
  • Easy, Medium and Full levels
  • Fret numbers or note names
  • Four- and five-string basses, drop tunings
Play screen with the note highway, the fretboard strip and the transport
Loop

A–B loop, free on every plan

Set A and B anywhere in the song, or pick whole sections, and the passage repeats without a gap. Slow it down without changing the pitch, and let Riff Repeater speed it up by 5% after every 90% pass.

  • Set A and B with a click or the A and B keys
  • Gapless repeat, no count-in on every pass
  • Slow down without changing pitch
Practice mode with an A–B loop set on the timeline
Edit

Edit the chart, review doubtful notes

Fix a chart where the machine got it wrong. Doubtful notes are marked: hover one to approve it if you hear it in the song, or remove it. Click to listen, double-click to add or edit, mark sections as verified. Your corrections survive re-analysis.

  • Approve or remove each doubtful note
  • Undo and redo
  • Flag a spot while playing with M
Edit mode with the tip of a doubtful note offering Approve and Remove
Tab

Find a tab, paste it, aligned to the song

Open a tab site from the cassette menu, copy an ASCII bass tab and paste it. BassRack lines it up with the recording bar by bar and shows how well it matches before you use it, either as the chart or to correct the detected notes.

  • Match report before you apply it
  • Use the tab, or use it to correct
  • Notes from the tab, timing from the song
The paste-a-tab dialog with a pasted bass tab and its match report
Rewards

Gold and holographic cassettes

Earn a gold foil label with a five-star best on a song. Play it perfectly, 100% at full speed on the Full level, and the cassette shell turns holographic. Each reward is celebrated once on the results screen.

  • Gold label: a five-star best
  • Holographic shell: a perfect run
Rig

Tuner, calibration and direct monitoring

Pick your interface and input, check the level meter and tune up. A one-time latency calibration (pluck a muted string on 8 clicks) keeps scoring fair. Monitor yourself through your interface at zero latency, or use the optional software amp.

  • Built-in tuner
  • Latency calibration
  • Optional amp: drive, bass, mid, treble
Rig panel with input, tuner and latency calibration
Scale School

Scale School: a method book that plays back

A path of scales instead of songs: pentatonics, major and minor, blues and the modes, written out like pages of a method book, in notation and tab. Every exercise is generated, so every expected note is exact.

The Scale School method book: chapter cards and lesson pages with notation, tab and mastery stamps

Method book

Chapters of lessons on sheet-music pages: the shape on the neck, the formula, how it sounds and a tip. The songs in your library that fit the scale are listed too.

A band behind you

Practice over drums or a metronome, your choice. A guide bass can play the line first ("Listen first") so you hear it before you play it.

Tempo ramp

A big BPM display, a beat light and an audible count-in. With auto tempo on, the tempo rises when you nail a pass and drops when you miss.

Mastery stamps

Five stages per lesson, from one octave to other keys. Clear them and the page gets a teacher’s stamp with your best tempo; points add up on your report card.

A Scale School practice stage over a drum groove, with the BPM display and the mixer
No audio processing needed: every exercise is generated instantly in your browser.
Plans

Free to learn. Premium to go further.

The full game is free, with ads. Premium removes the ads; Premium Cloud also processes songs on our servers. Prices are in US dollars; Paddle handles taxes at checkout.

FeatureFreeFull game + free tuner, with adsPremiumNo adsPremium CloudNo ads + processing on our servers
Highway, scoring, levels, A–B loop and Riff RepeaterIncludedIncludedIncluded
Scale SchoolIncludedIncludedIncluded
Upload your own files, processed on your deviceIncludedIncludedIncluded
Chart editor, doubtful-note review and tab pasteIncludedIncludedIncluded
No adsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Free, optional tuner helper, if you want to practice songs from a linkIncludedIncludedIncluded
Processing on our servers, for devices that are too weakNot includedNot includedIncluded
PriceFree$3.99 / monthor $29.99/year (save 37%)$9.99 / monthor $79.99/year (save 33%)

No plan requires installing anything. The tuner helper is free and optional for everyone: install it only if you want to practice songs from a link. It reads links from many sites and brings the song into your own device. Use only audio you own or have the right to use.

With Premium Cloud, your device still brings the song in, as a file or through the optional tuner helper: you upload it, our servers process it and then delete the audio. Your library stays on your device.

Prices are in US dollars and apply worldwide. Paddle sells BassRack as the Merchant of Record and handles taxes at checkout.

Windows beta · free

How the tuner works

The BassRack Tuner is a free, optional desktop helper for anyone who wants to practice songs from a link, on any plan. BassRack runs in your browser without it, and uploading your own files never needs it.

Get the tuner (Windows beta)

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  1. 1. Install the optional tuner

    On Windows, download the free beta from the tuner page (the Microsoft Store comes later); on macOS it will be a signed download. It lives as a small icon next to the clock or in the menu bar, with its status, "Open BassRack" and "Start with my computer".

  2. 2. Open BassRack in your browser

    The tuner’s antenna goes up whenever the helper is running, whatever your plan. The first time, your browser asks your permission to let BassRack talk to it.

  3. 3. Paste a link

    Paste a link from any supported site. The helper fetches the audio on your own computer, and the deck counter shows the progress. Use only audio you own or have the right to use.

  4. 4. A new cassette

    The song is processed on your device, or, with Premium Cloud, uploaded, processed on our servers and the audio deleted. The new cassette appears in your library.

Built to be safe

  • It only talks to bassrack.com in your browser, on your own computer, and never listens to the network.
  • It is paired with your browser: nothing else can use it.
  • It updates itself and checks the signature of every update before installing it.
Device check

Can my computer run BassRack?

Find out whether songs can be processed on this device and whether you can practice here. It runs only when you press the button, only reads what your browser already tells every page, and sends nothing anywhere.

Estimates from what the browser reports, not a speed test. Run it on the device and browser you will practice with.

Straight talk

What it does well, and where it falls short

Measured, not estimated

Charts are compared with real reference tabs, testing the note judge only on songs it never saw while learning (25 songs, one left out at a time).

Precision
83.4%of the notes shown are in the reference tab
Recall
84.2%of the reference notes are found
F1
83.8%balance of both; 79.6% without the note judge

Does well

  • Clearly plucked bass lines in recordings where the bass separates well
  • Repeated notes: each pluck is found by its attack, not just by a pitch change
  • Fair timing: windows are measured in real time, at any speed
  • Telling you when it is unsure: doubtful notes are marked, and you decide on each one

Current limits

  • Slap, pop, ghost notes, harmonics and chords are transcribed poorly for now
  • Hammer-ons and slides without a new pluck are not detected as new notes while you play
  • The low B of a five-string bass is below what the pitch model can see
  • String and fret are a suggestion, not necessarily what the original bassist played
  • Some old mono recordings cannot be separated cleanly; those charts are less accurate
  • A pasted tab is aligned bar by bar, and only bars of four beats are supported for now
  • BassRack is in early development: processing songs in the browser needs a capable graphics card, and its speed is still being measured
Waitlist

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FAQ

Questions

What is BassRack?

BassRack is a bass trainer that runs in your web browser. You bring a song, it separates the bass with AI, turns the bass line into a playable note highway with string and fret numbers, and scores your real bass, note by note, while you play along. It also has a Scale School for practicing scales over drums or a metronome.

How much does BassRack cost?

The Free plan costs nothing: it includes the full game, the Scale School, the A–B loop, the chart editor and uploading your own files, with ads. It also includes the free, optional tuner helper for practicing songs from a link. Premium removes the ads. Premium Cloud removes the ads and adds processing on our servers for devices that are too weak. Premium costs $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Premium Cloud costs $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year and covers about 50 songs a month; your audio is deleted after processing. Prices are in US dollars, and Paddle handles taxes at checkout.

Do I have to install anything?

No. BassRack runs in your browser. The BassRack Tuner helper is free, optional and only for importing songs from a link; uploading your own files never needs it, and no plan requires it.

What is the BassRack Tuner?

A free, optional desktop helper for anyone who wants to practice songs from a link, on any plan. A Windows beta is on the tuner download page (the Microsoft Store comes later); macOS gets a signed download soon. It sits next to the clock or in the menu bar. When it runs, the tuner in BassRack raises its antenna: paste a link from any supported site, the helper fetches the audio on your own computer, and the song becomes a new cassette in your library. Use only audio you own or have the right to use.

Is the tuner safe?

It only talks to bassrack.com in your browser, on your own computer, and never listens to the network. It is paired with your browser the first time you use it, so nothing else can use it. It updates itself and checks the signature of every update before installing it.

Which basses, tunings and audio interfaces work?

Any electric bass and any audio interface with an instrument input, connected by cable. Four- and five-string basses are supported, in standard and drop tunings; charts are re-fingered instantly when you change the tuning. Pick the device and the input (1 or 2) in the Rig panel.

Which devices can run BassRack?

Practicing needs a recent browser (Chromium-based or Firefox) with low-latency audio and an audio input. Processing songs on your own device needs a capable graphics card with WebGPU; on weaker computers, phones and tablets you can still practice everything, and Premium Cloud processes the songs on our servers. The device check on this page tells you what your computer can do. Check my device

Does my audio leave my device?

On the Free and Premium plans, no: your library, your songs, the separated tracks and your playing are processed and stored on your own device. With Premium Cloud, only the files you upload for processing are sent to our servers, and the audio is deleted after processing.

How is it different from learning from tabs?

A tab tells you which frets to play, but not exactly when, and it cannot hear you. BassRack shows every note in time with the real recording, listens to your bass and scores your timing and pitch, lets you slow down without changing pitch and loop any passage. If you have a tab you trust, paste it: BassRack aligns it to the song.

Which songs can I use?

Music you own or have the rights to use. Upload the audio file you have, or import from a link with the free, optional tuner helper, under the same rule: use only audio you own or have the right to use.

Will I hear a delay when I play?

Not if you use direct monitoring on your audio interface: you hear your bass straight from the interface, with zero latency. Software monitoring is optional and adds roughly 20 to 40 ms. Run the latency calibration once per setup so scoring stays fair, and avoid Bluetooth headphones.

Do I need to read tab or notation?

No. The highway shows the string and fret of every note as it comes, and you can add note names. Start on Easy and move up when you are ready.