Mute, solo and download stems or leave comments on the timeline for your collaborators.
Try it: this is the form members use. On the demo a comment lives on this page only and is gone when you leave.
Record your song ideas and demos and save them with integrated notes specific to each idea. Supports multiple takes. Record lossless audio and easily export MP3s or source files.
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Easily edit and share lyrics, notes, charts and more in a wiki-style editor. Keep everything organized and easy to access for all members of the project.
key: Emin・4/4 ・ 120 bpm
Structure Part 1・Part 2・Verse・Chorus・Bridge・Verse・Chorus x2・Outro
I - Part 1 | Em Am | x14
II - Part 2 D5 | A7 | Em7 | Em7 | C | D | A | A
III - Verse E5(7) | Am7 G5(7) | x3
IV - Chorus D5 | A7 | E5(7) | E5(7) | x3
V - Bridge E5(7) | A5(7) | E5(7) | A5(7) | -- | -- | A5(7) riff x2
VI - Out Em
The tools you need to be creative and productive as a songwriter all in one place. Like this guitar tuner and metronome, both also available as pop-overs from the idea-recorder, so you can tune up or keep time between takes or in the middle of a writing session.
Experiment with beat ideas, in an intuitive interface. Save, download & share. Or use as a backing track while recording an idea or demo.
Work out melodies, progressions, or chords on the fully playable in-browser piano and synth. Playable on mobile or desktop with keyboard shortcuts and midi control options.
An easy way to experiment with chord progressions and song ideas on a circle-of-fifths inspired interface. Includes different instruments, chord palettes, an auto-arpeggiator and effects. Also supports saving and playing chord progressions.
Stem Shovel is a web app for managing songwriting, arranging, and recording projects with an emphasis on creativity and collaboration. Built by musicians for musicians, this web app is intended to be an easy-to-use and affordable location for storing and sharing demos, stems, lyrics, chord charts and other songwriting assets. Without clutter, up-sells or feature bloat.
Sign up for free: choose the Free plan, enter your name, email and a password, and open the verification link we send. No invitation, no payment and no credit card are needed.
Our basic tier is a free account. That offers full access to all available features with free data storage up to 20 GB and up to six members. Free accounts require no payment or credit card info to sign up and remain free for life. During the beta period only free accounts are available. Beyond that, we will continue to support and focus on free accounts for independent bands, musicians, producers and educators, and will introduce paid plans for those who need more storage or more advanced features.
Nope. It's a web app. Built with mostly open source technologies and hosted on a cloud platform. It works cross browser and cross platform and is accessible from any device with a web browser and internet connection. We have no plans to build a desktop app in the near future, a web app fits our needs, and is easy to support.
The first iteration of Stem Shovel was built by Kevin Peckham at Lightning Jar as part of our side-projects program, where team members are encouraged to spend time pursuing passion projects, research, and play with new technologies. Lightning Jar is a small web studio founded in 2002, with the goal of helping organizations adjust to a world that is more digital every day.
Emphatically yes. We are not a startup, this is not our primary revenue stream, and we do not plan on taking on any investors. Which is to say all we need to do is cover our expenses, and those primarily have to do with servers, security, data storage, and support.
Some of the product features like advanced chord detection are powered by AI. However we are sensitive to the fact that some artists do not want to use AI features and require that their original music never touch 3rd party LLM models. For that reason all LLM-powered features can be easily turned off with a single click either at the project or song level.
While we do use AI as part of our process to speed up development, this app was not vibe-coded. Our team has been building websites and web apps for over 25 years and we have a deep understanding of what it takes to build a high-quality product, with human-driven architecture and design decisions following an approach to app building that mirrors our own experience and expertise.
Yes. You can find our source code on GitHub at github.com/kevinpeckham/stem-shovel. You're welcome to clone the project and set up your own private version on your own servers. We don't have a team in place to handle 3rd party pull requests, so we don't accept them. However you can submit feature suggestions via a link in the footer, though you must be logged in to do so.