Questions tagged [transcription]
Creating notation for a piece of music based on a performance recording. This can also refer to rewriting music for a different instrumentation than what was originally intended.
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Advice on arranging an orchestral work for piano duet?
So, I am starting again with my arrangement of The Nutcracker Suite. I was debating whether or not to do the whole ballet but I decided on the Suite because it is shorter and more widely known than ...
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Advice on arranging piano music for wind quartet?
I am arranging the Moonlight Sonata for woodwind quartet. The adagio and the minuet are simple enough to transcribe note for note. But the presto, that is hard. I mean there are super fast arpeggios ...
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Can I write my own book of transcriptions? [closed]
I want to write my own book of transcriptions of jazz solos from the 30s.
Are those copyrighted?
Am I allowed to do this?
Are works from the 30s public domain?
What is public domain?
Can a solo/...
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Workarounds for 10th intervals or larger when arranging for piano
So I figured that The Four Seasons might be easier to transcribe than The Nutcracker Suite (fewer lines, only real difficulty reading it is I have to translate between alto clef and treble clef ...
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Transcribing Nutcracker suite, running into difficulties
Obviously, going from an orchestral score to a piano duet score is hard in general. But I am running into some difficulties with transposition. 2 instruments I am transposing are Bb clarinet and A ...
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How can I find simple guitar chords to fit a melody line?
I worked out that the melody line to "Joy to the world" is basically just up and down the D major scale. In fact the first line "joy to the world, the lord is come" is literally the descending melody ...
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How to add extra notes to the original music sheet
I am learning guitar by myself. I see that the tab composer usually adds more notes that are not in the original sheet to make song more impressive. Please look at the notes in the circles in my ...
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Help with transcribing? I don't exactly know what key and chord can this be [closed]
I'm trying to transcribe one of the tracks from Anachronox:
I'm very beginner at transcribing and my ears need much training as well.
I think I wrote the melody and,...
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Transcribing as music and relative pitch practice?
I've read some good transcriptions recently and watched transcribe videos from 8-Bit Music Theory on YouTube and I was thinking if it's considered to be a good relative-pitch / interval / music ...
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Why can I not “find” the notes for Eminem's Mockingbird?
I am trying to put together a piano arrangement for Eminem's Mockingbird, and so much of the emotion comes from the rap lyrics. I'm trying to sound out the melody to his vocals, but no matter what I ...
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The “tunelessness” of birdsong in a “Peanuts” comic strip?
Charles Schulz was a very careful transcriber of music into Peanuts. Many passages are identifiable (lots of Beethoven, no surprise). However, Schulz could not read music himself -- thus copying from ...
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“Along the way” ear training in your daily routine
I am an amateur musician, not good at ear training. But I want to improve, unfortunately my time is limited as music is just a hobby. So in this post the author suggests doing ear training in your ...
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Problem with playing music by ear
When I was learning to play piano, I only learned how to read notes and all those rules so I can play a piece of music if I have sheet music, but I don't know the music theory at all... But I really ...
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What are the common problems when it comes to ear training and how do I fix it?
I can think of a few, first in formost, there is 2 different type of struggles
transcribing in real time which requires you to hear and identify chords and melody
and improvising, which requires ...
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How can you musically notate a certain type of vocal performance?
I've been listening to some Roxy Music recently, and was struck by the style of singing where much of it is not actually sung - I mean there is a pitched component, but it doesn't really belong to the ...
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How do train yourself to transcribe in real time?
One of the things I have done is scale degree training where you play a cadence and play any note to see if you can identify that note. I can probably be as accurate as 98%. 90% if you add chromatic.
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Tense and painful to pop 5th finger, why?
I started practicing the Lizst transcription of Beethoven's 5th symphony today and it is harder than it looks.
Some chords I just have to arppegiate because my hands aren't big enough to play it as ...
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Does this look bad? Is is incorrect?
There are parts in this tune where I think it looks nice to use two voicing (to avoid excessive ties) and other parts where it looks good to keep it simple. Question: does it look bad to alternate ...
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Transcribing Background Parts by Ear
I have a song that I'm trying to make into a MIDI, and I have most of it down, but there's small part at the end that I can't pick out, no matter what I do. The problem is that it's strings playing ...
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Community dedicated to music transcriptions [closed]
Do you happen to know any e-community related to music transcription? Many times I have doubts about parts of my transcriptions and it would be nice to seek others' opinion.
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Practical audiation suggestions related with a specific song
In order to enhance my very poor audiation I want to begin transcribing songs and so I've started with a supposedly easy one (and I believe it really is), counting the number of voices, the ...
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Low-level harmonic transcription practice
What are some of the best pieces for me to practice transcription, given that I can already easily transcribe melodies, and with some difficulty can recognize simple chords in isolation, but find it ...
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How to hear the pattern and the chords - guitar?
Any tips about how to hear the picking/strumming pattern and the chords out of a song?
For example, I am trying to get the picking pattern and the chords out of this song - luckily you can slow the ...
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Training set for automatic transcription of singing [closed]
I'm making an automatic music transcription system for singing so that you can convert your voice to midi. To train the system, I need WAVs of singing that are perfectly synched to midi files.
Does ...
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I have perfect pitch but have trouble identifying the note of human singing and the note I hear in my head. Any suggestion on how to practice this?
When I hear a note played on an instrument, its name (like A, Bb, etc.) immidiately pops up in my head. But when I hear human singing nothing like that happens. So I'm wondering how should I practice ...
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Best approach/technique/workflow in transcribing harmonically complex music?
I sometimes find musical gems that I'd like to jam with but upon discovering that sheet music for them don't exist, I take on a transcribing challenge because it's such a good exercise.
I don't have a ...
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How to transcribe close 3-part vocal harmony?
What are some good ways to figure out what notes are being sung? I can always tell when more than one note is being sung, but telling the difference between 2 and 3 separate pitches is very difficult ...
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What is Chris Potter playing here?
NB: This is all in Tenor Sax key (Bb), not Concert
I've been mulling over the following excerpt of a Chris Potter solo on the tune "Just One Of Those Things," I find it probably the most harmonically ...
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How can I to learn sight-singing, transcribe, and sight-reading?
I'm curious what the best route would be to become proficient in sight singing & ear training, along with polishing my technique on my preferred instruments (guitar & piano). I have a broad ...
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Confused by overtones when transcribing music
I noticed that sometimes when I'm transcribing a song in which the recording quality/mixing makes things hard to hear, I can sometimes be confused by the timbre of a musical part. For example, if the ...
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Why did Anna Magdalena Bach write funny accidentals sometimes?
I'm checking BWV 1004 for a project I'm working on. I sometimes see that Anna Magdalena Bach wrote some veeeery strange flats. For example...
Bars 113 and 114 from Chanonne. Bar 113 has on the bass ...
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I can hear the melody, but I can't hear the chords (Lift Every Voice example)
I have been charting chords to gospel songs lately. I did fine on a few but I came up short on "Lift Every Voice" by James Weldon Johnson, version in the key of G. The intro lick is a good example: I ...
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the right way to notate enharmonic notes [duplicate]
Hi I'm in the middle of transcribing Cappella music. The melody is in 'G# minor'. I have in succession F natural and then up to F#. My question is how should I notate the F natural, do I notate it as ...
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Are theremin's pitch hand positions unique?
I don't know much about theremins, and wondered about this: given a constant volume, I would like to know if I can produce the same note with different hand positions or if all notes have a specific/...
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How to notate a slide in vocal singing
I am transcribing Capella music. I came across singing from D# to B like a slide transcending without steps. How do I notate such a occurrence? Do I draw a line like a guitar slide? Or is there ...
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Lili Boulanger: Prelude in D-flat major: manuscript interpretation
I've found two type-settings of the prelude:
One via IMSLP
One via youtube
The original manuscript/facsimile is also available via IMSLP.
I'm not sure if I can trust either typeset versions. While ...
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transcribing a pause smaller then a measure
I'm transcribing Cappella music. When sometimes there is a small pause less then a measure before starting again the next theme or further melody. My question is how do I notate such a pause.
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Horowitz' improvised run during performances of fantaisie-impromptu
I'm hoping this is the best place to ask how to play the decorated run that horowitz improvises towards the end of the second section in his performance of Chopin's fantaisie impromptu? I can't find ...
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Standard staff size
I am looking to "design" and print some staff paper. Is there any standard regarding the distance between lines and spaces in a staff, and regarding the distance between staves themselves?
I will ...
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How to write sheet music without having pitch reference?
As someone who doesn't have perfect pitch, I always need to have an instrument around to write sheet music for a song.
If I know the key already I can figure out melodies but not more complicated ...
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How to label a transcription
How do you properly name a piece of music if it was transcribed by someone? Specifically I'm looking at a J. S. Bach Gigue, from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006, originally written for a solo violin....
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Transcribing piano from recording when available recordings are poor
I do a fairly large amount of transcribing of various jazz material. Usually, I do transcriptions of solos with only vague concern for what the accompaniment is doing (since usually the harmony is a ...
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How to convert a conventional piano or a violin score to the guitar tabulature using Musescore, Finale, Tuxguitar, Sibelius, Guitarpro softwares?
How to convert a conventional piano or a violin score to the guitar tabulature using Musescore, Finale, Tuxguitar, Sibelius, GuitarPro softwares? Is it possible and how it will handle multiple note ...
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Transcribing music which has no obvious metre
I am about halfway through transcribing Ryo Fukui's Early Summer, but I am having trouble figuring out how to notate the rhythm for the introduction (0:00 - 0:44) since I can't identify any beat to ...
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Finding the correct BPM/Time Signature
I am trying to transcribe a music (Pikon De Meta Fiction by Erabareshi), and even though this sync perfectly with the music, I don't feel comfortable with it (mainly because of the ties).
Do anyone ...
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How do I indentify this (Rach)? score [closed]
I have a small musical excerpt of which I am looking for the audio. I thought it was Rach, but I can't seem to find the score for it.
I had first thought it to be from Rach 3:
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How to notate a change to triplet feel part-way through a song?
I'm trying to notate a song which starts out in 4/4 time (with two 8th notes per beat) and changes to a triplet feel (with three 8th notes per beat and four beats in a bar) part-way through the song. ...
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How to work out the key of a song whose chords don't seem to fit an obvious scale?
I don't really know where to start with "House of the Rising Sun" as an example of a song which doesn't have an obvious key. How would I go about working this out - and does it actually matter that ...
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How to notate a Da Capo al Fine and fade (or Repeat and Fade)?
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How would I notate a repeat and fade in a music sheet, for the entire piece? Is there a standard way to do it?
Long version
I've been transcribing a piece of music of a SNES game, and ...
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How to transcribe speech onto a musical instrument
I recently came across the work of the bass player MonoNeon. In some of his videos he mimics the pitch inflection and rhythm of speech on his bass. Here's his take on part of a political speech:
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