/r/transcribe
If you're looking for help figuring out the chords/notes for a piece of music, this is the place to ask.
If you're looking for help figuring out the chords/notes for a piece of music, this is the place to ask.
Read the rules, which have been moved to a Stickied post at the top of the subreddit.
We encourage you to try transcribing yourself, if you can! It's a fantastic way to develop your ear and theory knowledge, and even if you get stuck it'll be easier for others to help if you already have a starting point. Some useful tools:
- Transcribe! - a brilliant little program that was built specifically for transcribing. It allows you to slow things down, loop over specific sections, pitch shift, and more.
- Audacity - a simple, free DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), meant more for audio editing, but can also do slowdown, pitch shift, etc.
- Noteflight - a free online music notation program. Think like Google Docs but for sheet music.
- Chordify - a cool site that tries to figure out the chords of any Youtube video you feed into it. Rarely does a perfect job, but can sometimes give clues or provide a rough starting point.
- Youtube to Mp3 - self explanatory, feed the resulting mp3 into Transcribe or Audacity, or even rewinding over and over in iTunes is better than doing it in Youtube.
Related musical subreddits:
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Jubilife City Jazz Arrangement
The first piece that plays in this video (0:00-2:32) is a fantastic jazz arrangement that I’d love to learn how to play. I’ve been trying to pick it out by ear but, as I am relatively new to this, I haven’t had much success. I’m wondering if anyone has found sheet music or would be able to help transcribe this piece. I know next to nothing about transcription so idk how insane of an ask this might be but any help would be greatly appreciated.
16:23 UTC
Help transcribing piano from a Smiths’ song
I’d like to learn the piano part from The Smiths’ song, Reel Around the Fountain. Can anyone please help me with that or convert their transcription to midi? I really love this song.
Here’s audio with the piano and guitar isolated. https://youtu.be/ib2zNtatC4Q?si=PL5NdKueEv0iQxu5
23:50 UTC
Help transcribing
I would like to know the melody of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5T1RVLw8s
You can hear it from 0:20 to 0:28
The chords are mostly E and Bm. I think the notes might start with something like EF#GABED ¿
Another part I'd like to know is the fragment from 3:34 to 3:40
19:36 UTC
Transcribing a song from a live performance
Hello,
Bruno Major plays the song "Home" in this livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/MWWnXNtfnXY?si=pJCckQslOPypeikO&t=1897 (should take you to the timestamp but if not, it's at 31:37). Would anybody be able to transcribe this for me?
If so, feel free to DM me and let me know what you would charge for this.
Many thanks!
15:53 UTC
What key is this song in? Or how do I figure it out on my own?
14:01 UTC
Help for an orchestra arangement!
I'm writing an orchestral arrangement of 'Deliver Us' from The Prince of Egypt and I'm struggling with two parts in particular.
At 1:18 there is approximately 4 bars of viola ostinato that I cant quite get the notes for.
And the vocal lead at 3:36 has some awkward rhythms and notes that I cant get right either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhcOJHTdb4
If someone could dm me these parts as a piano score I would greatly appreciate!!
11:54 UTC
Insane clarinet
One of my favorite artists released an album a few years back, and it's into started with a crazy sounding clarinet solo done by Itamar Ben Zimra that I would love to learn. If anyone can help. It would be much appreciated!!
23:09 UTC
Arabic Clarinet solo request (@ 8:44 - 9:56)(somewhat hard)
08:06 UTC
Trying to get some sheet music (or a followable tutorial) made for the Grape Stomping Song
I've attached clips from where the song appears in the show as well as a link to the extended version. I'm trying to learn it on piano but I'm damn near tonw dead and can't find sheet music or a followable tutorial anywhere. Willing to pay for the service.
02:37 UTC
Anyone can help see what chords and strumming pattern these are? Starts at around 19 minutes
10:24 UTC
Ray Charles - We Don't See Eye To Eye - Basic Chord Chart - Need Some Help
10:21 UTC
Over the moon- The Marias
Looking for a transcription of this song or if anyone knows where I can find the score!
22:36 UTC
Help with transcription for tattoo
I'll start with the reason I want this transcription, which is a little unusual: I plan to get a tattoo based on a song to which I have a personal connection (the design might including some of the art from the music video, but also a transcription of a section of the song). Once I get the transcription right, I might be going to r/DrawMyTattoo, r/Calligraphy, or a local tattoo artist for visual styling (possibly hand written, calligraphic, or styled like the art in the music video); if you happen to have suggestions related to the rest of this process, that would also be helpful. I don't expect to find a one-stop musician and tattoo artist, so I'm going to start with the transcription.
I am willing to offer payment for help with this process.
I've tried transcribing the first four and last two bars of the bass line of Sophie Meiers' "Slow" (I will probably use the first bar, maybe the first three or four, not likely to use the last two).
I think I got the notes and rhythm, possibly the key signature right. It's been a while since I've worked with sheet music, so I could be wrong; the slides in particular are throwing me off. I'd appreciate having my work checked (did I actually get the key signature, notes, and rhythm right?), but I'd also like some advice on formatting, style and readability/playability of the written sheet music.
I don't want to oversimplify and make it needlessly awkward to read/play, but since this is for a tattoo, and only a section of the piece (with pickups leading into the bars), I would like to consider some alternatives that might be more visually appealing. Here is one possibility, but I'm not entirely sure that it's correct/equivalent.
The final note of each phrase sounds to me to be an eighth note, although I'm not sure if it's muted to end or rings out and fades off naturally, so perhaps a quarter note or staccato quarter note would be equivalent - this would allow the first eighth rest to be removed, leaving a quarter rest followed by an eighth rest (or a dotted quarter rest, but I've read that that's uncommon), but perhaps additionally the pickup slide-ins can be written as grace notes, making it a half rest.
Is this still the same piece of music? Have I over-simplified? Are there other ways of writing it that I should consider?
Finally, here are a couple rough illustrations of what the tattoo might look like, for context.
Thank you for any help you can offer.
09:15 UTC
Looking for Give Up Your Dreams from School of Rock - Piano vocal
I've been searching all over the internet and can't find it. Does anyone here have a transcription? I was hoping to sing it at an open mic event next Saturday. I'd need the piano accompaniment with the vocal line. Thanks in advance!
01:30 UTC
Mose Allison jazz chords - one minute of audio
Anyone up for transcribing the chords for the opening of Mose Allison's version of You are My Sunshine? Unlike the 1-4-5 triads of the original, he's done it in a jazzy minor blues. If I could just get the chords and voicings of about the first minute, which is before the solo, I'd be grateful. Here's the video. He has a chord while he's talking for the first 15 seconds. Then the solo comes in at 1:10 after 16 bars or two rounds of the melody. But the chords are beyond me even though I basically know my sevenths generally.
Thanks for considering it. Solo ends at 2:07 and there are a couple more verses, but probably some repetition so just those early 16 bars would be very helpful to me in learning to play this song.
22:06 UTC
Looking for Tabs of a specific song
I've been trying to get my hands on tabs from a song that i heared for quite some time.. but i cant find it anyware :( maybe someone here can help :) the song name is Holiday by Anto D'Ryuzaki Here is the link to the music thanks in advance :)
20:32 UTC
made this track and accidentally deleted the chords
so i made this track and then accidentally deleted the midi file with the chords. project is in Eb major, can anyone help me with this?
12:44 UTC
Can I get the guitar licks and solo tabbed for Xeryus version of Miguel’s “Sure Thing” for a bounty
https://youtu.be/J4meNgBlZYA?si=UWmr4S9PpfzOxdR1
I see the top going rate according to rules was 30$ and more than willing to pay that or slightly more for an accurate and speedy tab of specifically the section of 1:30-2:40 but was having trouble earing the various licks throughout also
01:36 UTC
Eloy - The Bells of Notre Dame
I recently stumbled upon this song a couple of months ago, and may I say it’s a beautiful song. However, I’m quite new to guitar and don’t have a good ear to know what scale the guitar solo is at the end, if anyone could help me out that would be nice so I can freestyle over it!
22:55 UTC
Haibane Renmei Opening (Free bird) FULL SCORE transcription
An attempt to transcribe Haibane Renmei's (a popular anime from the early 2000's) opening (free bird), composed by Kow Otani.
Any feedback will be appreciated!
Youtube: https://youtu.be/iP15ll8FCFU?si=NHJXPlrxcnhcB_ug
Musescore website (for download): https://musescore.com/user/44939903/scores/21759658
22:36 UTC
Anyone find a transcript for Green Book's That Old Black Magic? Or wanna make one?
Sorry if the title is worded weird
21:37 UTC
Can someone more skilled than me explain this chord progression to me?
I've been trying to figure out the chord progression to this song, but don't quite understand how the harmony works.
This my interpretation so far:
- 1 chord: Gmin7/Gmin9
- 4 chord: Cmin7/Cmin9
The next part confuses me because the first time around there is an F in the bass and F# in the melody.
The second time around still the F# in the melody but D in the bass.
How would this be interpreted in typical harmonic function?
21:04 UTC
International Vaudeville (Russell Alexander) for piano
I've been in love with this piece for decades. I'm most comfortable playing at around a 6th-7th-grade piano level but I'll take whatever I can get. Is anyone down for this challenge? Willing to pay for time/effort, but I'd like to see at least the first four measures before tossing a coin your way to make sure I don't get burned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0dD97ZdFMg&pp=ygUgaW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCB2YXVkZXZpbGxlIHJ1c3NlbGw%3D
19:24 UTC
What time signature is the passage between 0:58 and 1:07?
07:08 UTC
Help with the sax / pads for the first minute or so of this Cowboy Bebop song?
Road to the West! Underrated song on a banger filled OST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HxCUr_fnw
Its mainly improv but I'm looking to remix it and some midi for the first minute or so would be all I need
Open to cover some expenses for your time but its only the sax lead and pad chords that are needed so should be easy enough
Thanks!
17:02 UTC
Does anyone have notation for / willing to provide notation for any of the MKB instrumental stuff?
Hey, i’m a senior in high school looking to apply to music school, and am looking for potential audition pieces for guitar. Particularly for Berklee, I think some of his MKB work could be suitable options to show proficiency across the board (rhythm, lead, etc). I can’t find notation (tabs, sheet music, videos of other people playing for reference, etc) for any of these songs though (fraudulent waffle, booty stank, thespian espionage, etc). I’m not against learning these songs by ear, but it would save time as i’m kinda slow at it still and allow me more time to focus on perfecting the pieces to have any of these resources.
Does anyone happen to have any of these or willing to create? Thanks!
15:39 UTC
Help determining rhythm in this section
Hi, I'm working on transcribing this piano piece, but there's a small part that's giving me trouble. There's a jazz section starting at 2:24, which you can see my transcription of here. For the most part I've pretty closely reproduced the performance, but in Section I (0:19 in my video, corresponding to 2:44 in the original song), the triplets I used in bars 119, 121, 125 and 129 don't quite seem to match his rhythm. As a result, my playback sounds kind of wonky in comparison.
If anyone has advice on his actual rhythm in those measures, I'd really appreciate it. The song as a whole has a decent amount of time signature changes (if it's helpful, you can see all my work on it so far here), so it's possible that may be happening there too, though to me it does feel like it should still be in quadruple time.
08:04 UTC
Help transcribing Devils waltz to trombone and alto sax
(21) Devil's Waltz by Steven Verhelst, saxophone duo version. Eclipse Saxophone Duo. - YouTube
I need someone to transcribe a part to the song, can anybody help?
04:04 UTC
help with transcribing--une autre vie by iliona!
hi everyone! im trying to learn the chords off this song..however.....I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE. it's a shame because this is an amazing song and i'd like to play it for my grandma :( thank you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvcO75QgvLE&ab_channel=iliona
01:39 UTC