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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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Transcribe Lead Tabs for Pepsi On The House

I'd like the lead tabs for the song Pepsi on the House, by Peach Pit. I'd prefer the whole song if that's chill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp1TEmiW4F4

2 Comments
2024/03/17
20:30 UTC

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Could anyone please help my transcribe this? Thank you so much. Takahiro Tanaka - Aquarium

3 Comments
2024/03/17
20:19 UTC

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A site that transcribes video text, Not Audio?

I'm looking for a site that transcribes video text from a foreign language into English. I don't want it to transcribe audio at all, only video text. For instance, a silent video that has text on it.

I tried several sites which were recommended to me, but they did not transcribe the text at all. Does such a site/program even exist in 2024?

If I attempted to use audio on it and used YouTube Auto Captions, it does a poor job picking up on the audio and translating it since the music is much louder than the voices.

I'm hoping to translate a video game into English, but so far, I'm not having any luck. What I've been doing, which takes far too long, is taking a picture of each dialogue and running it through google translate. Am I just better off sticking to this approach?

3 Comments
2024/03/17
16:57 UTC

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Need help with chords

I’ve been listening a lot to this Bossa Nova cover of Nirvanas “Smells like teen spirit” and I absolutely love it! I wanna try to play it at a school concert, but I’m having some trouble transcribing the chords in the verse and pre-chorus as I’m not used to Bossa nova chords.

The parts I want transcribed is from 0:25 - 0:57 and if possible 2:45 to 3:20. I would appreciate any help from the bottom of my heart!

0 Comments
2024/03/17
11:48 UTC

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Piano sheets

I really want to learn Laura by Erroll Garner on piano but I can not find sheets for that. could any write it for me?

Here is the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4KLc65qfvs&t=56s&ab_channel=itsRemco%7CPiano

1 Comment
2024/03/17
11:01 UTC

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Can anyone transcribe this for an upcoming performance?

I only part I really need is the piano solo starting at 2:46. Any of the extra little fills throughout it would be great but I could figure them out myself too! Thanks!

0 Comments
2024/03/16
22:12 UTC

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I need help figuring out love is a gamble by Randy Travis.

Thank you so much.

1 Comment
2024/03/15
15:54 UTC

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Can you help me figure out those chords ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmw9ZlzH_M0

I would love to play this song but I can’t get those chords (from the intro) can someone help me with this ? :)

0 Comments
2024/03/15
08:12 UTC

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Can someone transcribe this for me?

just the intro piano

1 Comment
2024/03/15
04:06 UTC

1 Comment
2024/03/15
03:12 UTC

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Transcribe request for “The End” - Justin Hurwitz from La La Land

Just looking for piano notes and chords

https://youtu.be/L8Q5g483gD0?si=FLFJmwyban9kIEBG

1 Comment
2024/03/15
03:12 UTC

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Can someone help me transcribe sax solo at 1:14?

Solo starts at 1:14. Pretty sure starts D, E, F#, G but could be wrong and not sure about the rest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRHyGExL5o

8 Comments
2024/03/14
22:19 UTC

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Libertango Score

I have been trying to find the score to this performance of Libertango https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DfDOuPwLLw in order to transcribe it to a concert band. Is there any way that I could find the score? I have looked for a while now and I have only found one other orchestral score of libertango and it was not the same as the performance.

0 Comments
2024/03/14
02:19 UTC

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I need a word doc and pdf of A Book Of Life by Peter Kingsley and can pay!

please help my job depends on it thanks!

0 Comments
2024/03/13
21:19 UTC

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Request - Lo que me queda - ataquemos

Hello everyone, if someone can, could you help me get the tab for this solo, it starts from second 32 to second 50 approximately https://youtu.be/_uCiVWbj_8s?si=wYd8-pXzn4WuT782 If you can help me I would greatly appreciate it

1 Comment
2024/03/12
23:33 UTC

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I do transcription service on Fiverr

Check out my latest transcription on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/c1nEjXALBUs?si=2A1KWNmOw-rtdUlN

1 Comment
2024/03/12
04:30 UTC

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Can someone help me figure out the chords in this song?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3G33-NCbQ

I tried chordify but they’re wrong.🤦‍♂️

4 Comments
2024/03/12
01:53 UTC

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Transcription Request - Moving On Arizona - (remix Allen Farben)

Requesting piano notes transcription

From 1:24 - 1:56

1 Comment
2024/03/11
05:28 UTC

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Help me transcribe the wind instrument in the chorus

Hey guys! I’m playing this song at a concert and need to write sheet music for it. I’m struggling a bit with how I should write the woodwind instrument in the chorus. I’m writing the part for a clarinet and I’m also gonna have two trumpets play some long notes here and there. But I’m super unsure about how I should write the clarinet part since this song is a bit strangely mixed so it’s super hard to hear precisely what is being played. Thankful for any thoughts.

2 Comments
2024/03/10
21:06 UTC

1

Help transcribing short Drum solo

From the Pal Joey revival (2008) any help could be appreciated!

1 Comment
2024/03/10
17:29 UTC

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Help with intro of ‘Fly’

I can’t figure out what keys he is playing with his left hand in the very beginning of this song. Could anyone help me?

2 Comments
2024/03/10
14:03 UTC

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Marigold - 1st2leaveDaFunction

Hey I'm new to the guitar and I think this song has some simple chords I would like to learn as a song. Unfortunately, it's a lesser known song so. I was wondering if anyone in this subreddit could help me find the chords. If so thank you very much!

Song link: Marigold - 1st2LeaveDaFunction

3 Comments
2024/03/10
08:25 UTC

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Need help with this nasty blues lick

Hey all, at 1:27 of this video, they keyboard player (Clyde Lawrence) plays a ridiculous bluesy fill that I would love to learn but am having trouble figuring out what it is. Can anyone figure out what he's doing? Would greatly appreciate any help

https://youtu.be/O_ULkZ-OIX8?si=a164d1MUVgHAUlon&t=87

2 Comments
2024/03/10
06:44 UTC

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Please help me figure out the chords of her guitar

I'm pretty sure she tuned her guitar up, but I can't pinpoint exactly how she did it. You can check out the video here: Link to the video. Thank you in advance!

1 Comment
2024/03/09
18:07 UTC

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Crumbs - Belaganas Tab??

Hi need help getting the guitar solo tab for Crumbs by Belaganas? Been looking everywhere and I can’t seem to figure it out. Link is below, guitar solo starts at 1:40

https://youtu.be/IVxEnyT96_o?si=jl5OkOPwdZiYAvdG

2 Comments
2024/03/09
09:57 UTC

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Looking for bass transcriptions? I'm your guy!

What's up everyone! I'm new to this sub and am so happy to see a thriving community of transcribers and transcript seekers. It is one of my favorite musical pursuits.

Over at my website, domryanmusic.com, I have a huge amount of bass transcriptions to look from, and am ALWAYS looking for new recs and challenges!

Apologies for the self promo, but I am always looking for new pieces to get my transcription chops a run through!

0 Comments
2024/03/08
23:39 UTC

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Fred neil - green rocky road

Hello. First time here. Trying to work out what chords he is playing. I read it was all in d but can't seem to work it out. I am sure it would be simple with someone with a good ear.

https://youtu.be/6gTAet4APj0?si=7MY-TqbyjVEyuAuM

I would love to try and sing this. Please help :)

2 Comments
2024/03/07
22:41 UTC

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Backstreets Back Tabs??

Ive been trying to figure out the tabs to a sort of solo for backstreets back like the links below can anyone help?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeykKYmp/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeykCa5a/

1 Comment
2024/03/07
22:13 UTC

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