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Offline pianistapl

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Hello all!

I'm new here and i need your help. So... I play piano for few years (only classical music), even pretty well but i have problems with write piano scores of this jazz song:
I need to have transcription of piano part but i am really not so good to transcribe it well... If anyone could share transcriped scores, it would be amazing. Please help me, i really need to have this in two weeks (8 June exactly)

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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #1 on: May 26, 2014, 05:22:42 PM
Just the piano part or the voice part, as well? I do transcriptions.
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #2 on: May 26, 2014, 05:36:09 PM
You are welcome to private message me.
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #3 on: May 26, 2014, 06:06:22 PM
Hi,

You can use a software called "Transcribe!" (free use for 30 days):
https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html

"The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both."

Just google for "youtube to mp3 converter" to convert the Youtube-File to a mp3 and open it in Transcribe. Transcribe can analyze the spectrum and give you a guess of the played notes.

Greets,
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #4 on: May 26, 2014, 08:33:21 PM
You are welcome to private message me.
PM sent :) I need only piano part.

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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #5 on: May 27, 2014, 12:54:24 AM
try the transcribe!, as well. Usually transcribing solos yourself is very helpful and developmental, when it comes to tone and voicing, and improvisation and RHYTHM. It just really helps with what you can and can't hear, as well. It changes your musical abilities completely, once you are able to transcribe WELL. I am not the most accurate, btw. 

What key is this in, and what time signature would you like?
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #6 on: May 27, 2014, 04:54:18 AM
try the transcribe!, as well. Usually transcribing solos yourself is very helpful and developmental, when it comes to tone and voicing, and improvisation and RHYTHM. It just really helps with what you can and can't hear, as well. It changes your musical abilities completely, once you are able to transcribe WELL. I am not the most accurate, btw.  

What key is this in, and what time signature would you like?

PM sent :) i forgot to write that Time signature isn't so much important, i mean you can choose the best in your opinion :)
And i promise when i will be have more free time, i will try to do transcribe myself :)

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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #7 on: May 27, 2014, 11:24:50 AM
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What key is this in, and what time signature would you like?

I guess it is in Ab, but I'm not sure.

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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #8 on: May 27, 2014, 01:28:41 PM
I guess it is in Ab, but I'm not sure.

thank you! 2 weeks isn't much time for me, I sort of am having some hand issues.
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #9 on: May 28, 2014, 01:34:28 PM
I guess it is in Ab, but I'm not sure.
How can i exactly use Transcribe! application? I converted video to mp3 and runed in Transcribe! but i don't see any analysis or something.

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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #10 on: May 28, 2014, 04:35:06 PM
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Re: Need help with transcription (piano jazz song)
Reply #11 on: May 28, 2014, 09:19:43 PM
How can i exactly use Transcribe! application? I converted video to mp3 and runed in Transcribe! but i don't see any analysis or something.

Look at this picture:


It shows the Transcribe window with the file being set to the beginning of the piano part of the song. Below the waveform you see green blobs on the keyboard roll which are the notes that have been analyzed by the tool (Bb, Ab, (Bb), Db, F, ...). Check "Show Note/Chord guessed" in the view menu if you haven't activated it yet. The size of the blob is indicating the degree of confidence that the peak found represents a note being played. On the right side you see a box which shows the chords, that are represented by these notes. It's not always 100% correct but by playing through the file (you can also slow it down without changing pitch) you can write down the chords and notes that are being guessed -> toggle the space bar to start and stop the playing from the marker.

Also look at this youtube video on how to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZzH4XhyKo
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