Mute, solo and download stems or leave comments on the timeline for your collaborators. Try it out in the working demo below.
Try it: this is the form members use. On the demo a comment lives on this page only and is gone when you leave.
Easily edit and share lyrics, notes, charts and more. The demo below shows documentation for the song above.
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
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.
Stem Shovel is in early beta and you will need an invite or invite code to join and use it. If you are eager to try it out, join the waitlist and we will send you a code as seats open.
During the early beta period all subscriptions are free. Beyond that, our plan is to offer a generous free tier for independent bands, musicians, producers and educators, with no recurring subscription and free data storage up to 10 GB.
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.
Stem Shovel 0.0.1 was built by Kevin Peckham at Lightning Jar as part of our side-projects program. 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 no. Stem Shovel is built, managed, and maintained by Lightning Jar and select volunteers and 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 we're not here to get rich and we feel no pressure to grow. 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.
If you're not familiar with the term, vibe coding means building something entirely from AI prompts. 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 https://github.com/stem-shovel/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 vial a link in the footer, though you must be logged-in to do so.