Transcribe Piano Music in English
Music transcription is the process of taking written music and converting it to a format suitable for playing on piano. This process may be as simple as writing down the chords to a very simple song or, at the other extreme, attempting to produce a note-for-note transcription of an orchestral piece for piano solo. The effort involved varies enormously depending on how complex the music is and how good your ear is. As a general rule you should start with something very easy and work your way up to more difficult material.
If you have a computer programme that can transcribe music then this will be very helpful in reducing the amount of time spent transcribing. These programmes allow you to set loop points, adjust the timing of the beats, adjust the pitch and even slow down the music without losing the original pitch. They will also usually have a feature that analyses the sound and will try to guess what notes are being played (or at least what chords) as well as providing the corresponding musical notation.
Alternatively, if you don’t have access to a computer program or have a good enough ear to do the job by hand then the first step is to listen to the music and get a feel for it. Listening to the piece several times is often a good idea, as it can help you pick out the various parts that are being used and what the dynamics are like. This will then help you work out what to do with the rest of the transcription.
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How to Transcribe Piano Music in English
The next step is to mark the time signature and any flats or sharps that may be required on your staff. It is also worth trying to work out the key of the piece as this will give you clues as to what sort of rhythms it might have and how to voice them. It will also make it much easier to understand the chord structure and any harmonic developments that might occur.
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If the chords seem particularly complex, you might want to break them up into separate parts and omit any rests that are not necessary. Similarly, large florid arpeggiations might be best broken down into multiple parts, each sustaining a particular note for longer than the others (or at least not all of them).
Once you have determined the time signature and key of the piece it is a case of starting with what you can hear easily. Listen to the melody line and, just as when doing a jigsaw, try and find a way to loop it one phrase at a time until you can hear the individual notes clearly. Once you have the main melodic lines transcribed you can move on to the other instruments and finally the bass part.
It is important to remember that transcription is part hearing and part deduction. If you have a really good ear then this will probably be sufficient, but if there are things that you just can’t hear it is sometimes necessary to consider what it might actually be possible to play on the piano and what the likelihood is that they were even played in the recording.
