Q. Occaisionally, when I want to write a piece of music, I'll mess around on an instrument for long enough before I find something cool. The problem is, I usually don't remember what I played by the time I get something to write it down (I'm also not very good at transcriptions). Is there a software which will hear something which is played, and then notate it (in a sheet music format)? (I have Finale, but there doesn't appear to be a feature for this)
Please don't suggest MIDI. I don't play piano, violin, or guitar.
A. I am not sure - but haven't you asked similar questions before? There is NO hardware or software that will convert WAV to MIDI (and then it is an easy step to notation - although the result is going to need a LOT of cleaning up.) However, there are *pitch to midi* which will handle slow and discrete playing, monophonic - you can play single note-instruments, or sing (no words get notated) one note at a time, with a little separation between them. This is tedious and crude, and will not handle chords, multiple parts, etc. Once you use this, you can then open the resultant file (open MIDI) in Finale, and see what you have - as long as you stuck VERY strictly to the metronome!
What instrument are you using? If it is something like sax or trumpet, etc. this could work - although it is slooooooow. You might be better putting in whatever you can catch as a transcription, right into Finale, and then fooling around with the notation until you get what you want. And taking a good ear-training class would help - as well as some fundamental keyboard lessons; you would not have to learn how to play a Rachmaninoff etude, just *get around* on a keyboard that you plug directly into your computer. Good luck -this gets easier with more experience and more education. You certainly are to be lauded for your sticking to it!
Wanted Cello Sheet Music?
Q. "Victors Solo" from the Corpse Bride
"I'LL Be" Edwin Mccain
" Come What May" from Moulin Rouge
"Fall for You" Secondhand Serenade
or a free program to transpose piano to cello? Any help would be great
A. All of that music is available from Sheet Music Plus (online) however, it is not written or arranged specifically for the cello. No matter what instrument you play, if you want access to the widest variety of sheet music, you need to be able to understand how your instrument relates to Piano Music and Lead Sheets. A lead sheet, is simply the melody line on a treble clef accompanied by the guitar chords at the top and they lyrics (if there are lyrics) written underneath the score. Piano music is usually written as a treble clef and bass clef (two separate staffs, of course). So, you play the cello. I'm not sure but, I would guess that most cello music is written in the bass clef. But the melody line on all piano or lead sheets is written in the treble clef so, you simply need to learn how to read a treble clef and you can then play any sheet music on your instrument. My mom used to tell me over and over again "where there is a will, there is a way". While I was growing up, that was always just a lot of words that did not seem to solve any of my problems but, now that I'm older I realize that what she meant was that if I had the desire to do something, that I also had the ability to do it. So, I should figure out a was of doing it because learning to solve the little annoying problems was what made life interesting. So, you have a choice, you want to play your list of songs. The sheet music is not available specifically for your instrument of choice but, you still want to play it. What are your options? Learn to play another instrument for which the sheet music is available. Learn to improvise and interpret the sheet music written for other instruments and adapt it to the cello. Learn to play the cello by ear. Use modern technology and create your won cello music. Aha! I bet you did not know that there is software available that will convert your CDs into .wav files and which can convert .wav files into midi files and which can convert midi files into sheet music and which can convert music on a treble clef into music on a bass clef now did you? Of course one piece of software does not do all of that stuff but with four or five different pieces of software, like have, I can create sheet music for anything I want to create it for. Of course there are problems with that too because the software is not often perfect so, I then need other software that will edit the sheet music I create to correct all the mistakes. Best way to overcome the problem in your case, learn to play the cello by ear. I bought a keyboard a year ago because I decided to become a songwriter and it was actually easier for me to convert the music I heard in my head to notes on a keyboard than it was to use my guitar to learn those same notes. Before I knew it, I was also figuring out the chords to go with the melody on the keyboard as well. Today, I can hear a new melody in my head and sit down at the keyboard and play the melody and the chords almost perfectly the very first time. How can I do that? Our body and our minds are truly amazing things. When we do things like practice an instrument over and over our ears hear and our minds remember those sounds. Our muscles also remember what they were doing to produce those sounds and after a while, you can simply hear a sound in your mind and your muscles will respond and produce that sound automatically on demand. I did not try to learn to play the piano by ear. It just happened. You can do the same thing with the cello. I can play the guitar by ear for some things like chords but, because I was never a lead guitar player, I never learned to associate the melody in my head to finger positions and strings on the guitar. But, now I am learning that as well. I hope this helps you.
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