Disklavier

Listening to music, then writing it down (transcription) is like knowing how
to read then developing an interest in grammar.  MIDI also gives us some
very powerful tools to aid this process in that it is like a word processor
for music.  I started to learn how to do music transcription myself last
year and found reading the book, "How to Play the Piano Despite Years of
Lessons", available from www.amazon.com to be an excellent primer on the
structure of music.  You can use your ears to find the bass line in a song,
then use a software program like Band In A Box with its intuitive chord
mapping to create a MIDI file.  I am looking forward to the coming year and
finding more time to play with this!

Carol Beigel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Fry" <groups@...>
To: "Disklavier Group" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: Convert MP3 files to MIDI


> snip............
> Sadly, it isn't going to happen any time soon. The best way to capture
> performances from audio recordings (at the moment) is to sit there and
> transcribe them.
>
> James