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Does anyone know of a music program that might, I don't know...tell you what notes are being played on a song? My husband is trying to learn to play a song but doesn't play by ear as he doesn't have much music experience. Anything that might convert midi files to notes, or something similar?
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MIDI files can be opened in programs like Finale. But the results can be sometimes even more confusing, depending on how it was programmed and how Finale interprets it...
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That would be an awesome program! I'm interested, though I suspect it might violate copyright law or something of the sort..
I generally listen and try to play it on the piano, but it doesn't work very well, for me at least. I don't have neither the talent nor the patience for that process. So I'd love to have a program tell me what the notes are, for me to learn.
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Something that could turn an mp3 into a score is still at least a decade of research away from reality. Turning a MIDI into notes, though...that's what MIDI is. Any program that does MIDI should be able to display it in standard music notion. Lilypond has the nicest rendering around and is free if not exactly intuitive.
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I'm getting both Lilypond and Voyetra. Midi files are fine. Which of these Voyetra programs do I need, elaine? I've got a whole list here.
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PSI -- what do you mean your husband doesn't have much music experience? I though you said he plays the banjo?
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Yeah, and this is his second month doing it. He's trying to learn to play a song from his favorite video game on the banjo. This is the first instrument he's ever played, except for a very brief stint with the guitar that was, shall we say, terrible. He's gotten pretty good at playing the banjo during this time, but musically he's still a novice, if that makes any sense. I has extremely imperfect pitch (I just made that up ) and can't play by ear, nor read music beyond the extremely simplified banjo stuff.
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Okay I must be completely brain-dead because I can not find that orchestrator plus jive you're talking about.
Forgive me, I'm sick and it's late.
But when I go to this page ( http://www.voyetra.com/site/ ) I get nothing that says that. Can someone direct this pitiful sickly person to the correct place?
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A song from his favourite video game? I'm interested! I love video game music! I used to sit for hours by the SNES, transcribing music from Mario Bros! So, which video game song is he trying to learn to play?
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Right now it's a song from the game "Earthbound" which is an awesome little RPG for SNES. Not a fantasy RPG but a goofy little science fiction one. It did amazingly well in Japan but when brought over here it flopped. There are two reasons why:
1. Marketing strategy. Their clever plan included cards that come with the game, and each card had a character from the game on it. The cards were scratch-and-sniff and smelled like the characters. Their motto? "This Game Stinks." o_O
2. Graphics. They are terrible. They look like they could have been done on the Nintendo. But what sold the game to the Japanese was the awesome playability, the sounds, the story, and the hours upon hours of gameplay. I could play it from start to finish, then start over again, having forgotten what happened in the story the last time. It was deep, rich, and full of mini-plots within the plot. Apparently Americans want eye-candy more than an actual good game...or at least, they did in the 90's. Plus, there are places in the game where the graphics rock, namely the battle scenes. But in order to get there, you have to actually play the game for a while, which no one was willing to do.
At any rate, the song is called "Buy Somethin' Will Ya?" and it's a little banjo tune that plays whenever you walk into a...drugstore, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe the shops.
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