Re: [LAU] Easiest way to extract score from an audio file

From: Philipp Überbacher <murks@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 22 2013 - 17:27:19 EET

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:47:26 +0100
Edgar Aichinger <edogawa@aon.at> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2013, 00:45:14 schrieb Philipp Überbacher:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm a really bad musician. I can play simple songs on the piano if I
> > have the score. Now I know a nice little song that I'd like to play
> > and sing. It's just piano and vocals and I'm sure that for any
> > decent musician it would be a matter of minutes to figure out the
> > score of this song. Is there some piece of software that can help
> > to do this?
> >
> > In case anyone is curious, the song is "Ohne Dich" by "The Bates".
>
> While I can (and often do) transcribe songs i want to play on guitar,
> i usually start by googling the song title with an additional search
> term like chords, score, sheet music, lyrics, midifile etc.
>
> For your song I found this, alas for guitar, see if that helps you
> playing it on the piano. The picking pattern is easy, even if you
> don't play the guitar you should be able to determine the few notes
> involved. The chord progression is pretty simple anyway:
>
> http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bates/ohne_dich_crd_844996id_06072009date.htm
>
> HTH, Edgar

Thanks,
but I have no idea how to read those strange guitar thingies. Not sure
what's easier, trying to translate this or trying to play the song by
ear. Anyway, time to dust off the piano.

Regards,
Philipp
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