Q.
A. Take two notes an octave apart, like C and high C. If you were to open up a piano and measure the strings used to produce those notes, the high C string is exactly half the length of the C string. And a low C string is twice the length of the C string. That's why stringed instrument players like violinists and cellists and guitar players are moving their fingers up and down the strings. They are pressing the strings against frets that act to temporarily change the length of the string and thereby change the note that its vibration produces.
When you pluck a string, or hit is with a hammer, the primary note is the frequency that will fit exactly one wavelength on the string, but there are overtones of notes that will fit two or three or four wavelengths on the string. This overlap of frequencies is what gives music depth. Very early computer music programs would only play a single frequency, and the music sounded flat. Look up a musical .midi file and listen to the difference between that and the same song played with a .wav file.
Also, within the octave there are important chords, the major and minor third, the major and minor fifth. Each of these is created by a string that is a distinct fraction of the distance between one string and the one an octave above it.
All of this was discovered by Pythagoras.
Music Note/ Piano Chord recognizer program?
Q. Are there or is there any sort of music/ computer program that could recognize the music notes and/or chords being played in a song? Is there a program that would recognize the notes and chords being played in any song and display them in piano format? For example: If I were to play an mp3 of a song (Ex: Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles), the program would analyze it and display what chords and notes are being played (The program would then display the piano chords and notes used. Am9, Am6 etc.)
I basically want to play an mp3 and have the program be able to tell me which notes and chords are being played so that I can play them later on my piano. (I like a lot of music that is a bit underground so there isn't any sheet music or chords available for the song and there isnât a demand for them to be transposed, therefore, Iâd like a program that can do it for me)
I know there are programs like Vanbasco that recognize, display, transpose and convert notes and chords of Midi files, but is there a program that works like that that can recognize a song (any song) in its original composition?
Thanks in advance! Best Wishes!
A. There are currently no programs will isolate and notate music from any other format than MIDI. People who tell you that they can remove vocals from a mp3 or WAV or any other format, are lying - you are left with an incomprehensible mess. I work in digital classical music, and my son - who was taught by me earlier in his career - is now finishing a MM degree in Digital Music, and he manages an electronic music lab for a portion of his employment as a HS music theory and vocal music teacher. If the software of which you speak existed, we would know - and I would be using it daily, since I have a specific professional need for this. Meanwhile, as Switch said, I will have just to use my good ear-training skills and notate what I *hear*. Can you write down the words that people say or sing? Well, good musicians can write down the notation of the music - it is what we are educated to do.
Added - wow - lotsa typos, mainly due to AutoFill. Gotta shut that off!
What is this song? Piano chords provided?
Q. http://www.codehook.com/music/samples/PianoChords.wav - I think it's an 80's dance song but I don't know what it is. I've heard it numerous times and I'd probably know what it was if I heard the lyrics but I heard the intro to it today in a Billie Jean mash-up mix (which is what I'm essentially trying to find by asking this question) and can't remember the rest of the song or what it is. Any help is much appreciated, thanks!
I don't have the link to the mash up, I'm trying to find out what this song is so that I can find the mash up. The chords I've used on that link aren't exact but close enough for someone who really knows the original tune to realise what it is.
If this helps find the mash up or identify the original song at all...it was played on Kiss FM today (at around 4:15pm) by Jez Welham
A. Can you post the link to the mash up? The code sounds a little off, like there's something missing.
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