For Udio creators · Indie
Upload your Udio indie track. Get playable guitar tabs, chords, and synced lyrics in about 3 minutes.
3 full songs free. No credit card. Works with any Udio tier.
About Udio
Udio is a generative music model with a focus on long-form output and clean genre rendering. Like Suno, it produces full audio tracks from a text prompt.
Udio tends to produce smoother instrumental beds and tighter mix balance than other consumer generators, which helps source separation. Tempo stability is generally strong; chord progressions are usually diatonic but extended chord voicings are common in jazz and lo-fi prompts.
Output format: wav or mp3 download depending on tier.
About Indie on guitar
Indie spans dream pop, indie folk, math rock, and indie rock. The common thread is a focus on melodic guitar parts that sit alongside the vocal rather than beneath it, frequent use of capos and altered chord voicings, and clean tones with effects.
Tempo range
100-130 BPM
Common tunings
Chord vocabulary
Suspended 2nds and 4ths, add9 chords, modal interchange. Less reliant on dominant resolutions than mainstream pop or rock.
Common techniques
Transcribing Udio indie
Capos and partial barres are the biggest source of error here. A capo on the 5th fret with a D-shape sounds the same as a G chord open, but the playable fingering is very different. Capo-aware suggestion is essential for usable indie tabs.
Because Udio produces studio-quality stereo mixes, the source separation step typically isolates the guitar bed cleanly before pitch tracking begins. The indie content above describes the genre's common chord vocabulary and techniques, which our chord recognition and technique annotation models are tuned for.
Three minutes from upload to tab. Optimized for Udio's stereo mix and tempo stability.
Word-level lyric timing. 170+ chord types including the indie extensions. Verse, chorus, and bridge marked.
Beam-search fingering picks shapes your hands can reach. No theoretically-correct but physically-impossible voicings.
How it works
Save your Udio song as audio (mp3 or wav).
Drop the file into the upload box. We separate the guitar from the mix and transcribe.
Tabs, chords, lyrics, and song sections delivered in about 3 minutes. Export to MIDI or PDF on Pro.
Other Udio genres
Same indie sound, other AI sources
The transcription pipeline accepts audio from any AI music generator. If your indie track came from somewhere other than Udio, start here:
The pipeline detects the tuning automatically before transcribing. Common indie tunings (Standard E, Drop D, Open D, Half-step down) are all supported. If detection picks the wrong tuning, you can override it from the song view.
Yes. Indie techniques (Arpeggiated picking, Capo use, Chiming open strings, Reverb-heavy clean tones) are annotated when the audio signal supports detection. Bend amounts, palm-mute markers, and hammer-on / pull-off links are written into the tab where the model is confident.
Yes. The transcription output is private to your account and is not redistributed. Review Udio's terms of service for any restrictions on downstream use of your generated audio.
Higher-quality stems and cleaner mixes always transcribe better. Udio's standard output is mp3-equivalent quality, which our pipeline handles without issue.
Pro accounts support songs up to 15 minutes. Free accounts are limited to shorter songs; check the upload page for the current free-tier ceiling.
Upload your first song free. No credit card. About 3 minutes from upload to tab.