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Everything about getting notation you can read, edit, and print: making sheet music from a song, simplifying and arranging it for your level, and exporting a clean score to PDF or MusicXML.

Sheet Music

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How to Turn a Melody You Hum Into Sheet Music

The tune in your head becomes a real recording the moment you hum it into your phone, and from there it can become notation you can read, edit, and share. Here is how to turn a hummed or sung melody into sheet music, even if you cannot play it on an instrument yet.

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How to Get the Guitar Chords to Any Song

Most guitar players learn songs from chords, but the chart you find is often wrong, missing, or in a key that fights your voice. Here is how to get the guitar chords to any song straight from the recording, then shape them into the capo position, voicings, or key you actually play in.

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How to Get the Ukulele Chords to Any Song

The ukulele makes almost any song approachable, but only once you have the chords in a key that suits its four strings and your voice. Here is how to get the ukulele chords to any song from the recording, then pick uke-friendly keys and simple shapes.

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How to Transpose a Song With a Capo

A capo lets a guitarist change a song's key without learning new chord shapes: clamp it on a fret and your open chords sound higher. Here is how a capo transposes a song, which fret raises the key by how much, and how to find the position that fits your voice.

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What Is Concert Pitch?

Concert pitch is the shared reference that lets a band play in tune together, and the reason a trumpet and a piano reading the same note do not match. Here is what concert pitch means, which instruments play at it, and why transposing instruments do not.

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How to Arrange a Song for Guitar

Arranging a song for solo guitar means fitting the melody, the harmony, and a bass line onto six strings and two hands. Here is how to arrange any song for guitar, from choosing a guitar-friendly key to balancing chord-melody and fingerstyle, starting from a transcription you can edit.

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How to Arrange a Song for a String Quartet

A string quartet gives you four voices, two violins, a viola, and a cello, that can carry almost any song. Here is how to arrange a song for strings, from splitting melody and accompaniment across the parts to writing in each instrument's range and clef.

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How to Arrange a Song for Choir (SATB)

Arranging a song for choir means turning it into singable parts for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, each in a comfortable range. Here is how to arrange any song for an SATB choir, from setting the melody and harmony to handling the words, starting from an editable score.

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How to Edit Sheet Music After You Make It

A transcription is a starting point, not a final answer, which is why getting an editable score matters more than getting a picture. Here is how to edit sheet music after you make it: fixing notes and rhythms, changing the key, reassigning hands, and exporting a clean copy.

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How to Get Sheet Music for Christmas and Holiday Songs

Every December the same problem returns: the holiday song you want to play is in the wrong key, the wrong difficulty, or has no sheet music at all. Here is how to get any carol or modern holiday song as editable sheet music, then fit it to the player.

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